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General Weather Chat / Re: Severe Weather Threat: Tuesday, October 26th

« on: October 26, 2010, 08:51:17 PM »

No offense to the SPC, but I think they hyped this event a little too much. For example, I don't think there was a need for a PDS Tornado Watch in AL and TN and the reason I say this is because I think a regular Tornado Watch would have equally served the same purpose and urgency as that PDS watch would have and plus I thought those are supposed to be issued in rare severe weather events where there's expected to be big wedge tornadoes that are long lived on the ground and things like that. I've seen more of these things issued in the past year than I have my entire life. I feel like it loses all urgency to it when it's issued more than it should be.

The high risk for today was not triggered by confidence in tornadoes, which was only 15% according to their probability map.  That number alone only yields a moderate risk.  The high risk was triggered by the high confidence in wind damage, which was at 60%.  There is actually a table that explains how SPC's probabilities of each severe weather parameter (tornadoes, winds, and hail) correlate to the risk level they issue.  In regards to the PDS tornado watches, I think those were issued more because this event was happening in an unusual time of the year, so they were afraid people would be caught off guard.

Three people have already been injured from today's event based on preliminary reports that have made it to SPC so far.  I don't see any fatalities listed, but it wouldn't surprise me if I'm only looking at the tip of the iceberg in terms of all reports from this day.

Oh ok, well thanks for clearing up the part about the high risk because when I saw the PDS Tornado Watch issued in the South I was thinking to myself, "Why didn't they issue that for IL & IN and parts of KY where they had the high risk forecasted?"

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General Weather Chat / Re: Severe Weather Threat: Tuesday, October 26th

« on: October 26, 2010, 08:27:13 PM »

Wow, SPC jumped to a high risk for this day!   I'm a little scared to say the least as the expected line of storms has already formed.  There are tornado warnings in effect right now.

No offense to the SPC, but I think they hyped this event a little too much. For example, I don't think there was a need for a PDS Tornado Watch in AL and TN and the reason I say this is because I think a regular Tornado Watch would have equally served the same purpose and urgency as that PDS watch would have and plus I thought those are supposed to be issued in rare severe weather events where there's expected to be big wedge tornadoes that are long lived on the ground and things like that. I've seen more of these things issued in the past year than I have my entire life. I feel like it loses all urgency to it when it's issued more than it should be.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC Revamp: Strong Chance Of Less Weather Coverage

« on: October 26, 2010, 08:19:43 PM »

I can understand her idea of people having more access to the weather through TWC's website, iPad, etc., but the problem is that's only "some" NOT "all". What are the people who do occasionally watch TWC for severe wx updates and aren't able to have availability to those sources supposed to do? Of course the obvious answer would be to watch the local news, but that's pretty much the reason why people do that now anyway because TWC isn't doing what it's supposed to do, everytime it seems like they are going forward, it's like someone comes along, hits em right in the family jewels and they fall right back on their butts again. I guess they learned Absolutely NOTHING from the FAAF incident. (sighs) Sorry if it sounds like I'm ranting, I wasn't trying to.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC Revamp: Strong Chance Of Less Weather Coverage

« on: October 26, 2010, 06:02:04 PM »

Like Jesse said, we'll get used to this like we all did before.

Don't get me wrong, if they WANT to become a G4-like network, that's fine. But they're nuts if they think most or all of their loyal "weather" fan base will stick around.

What's G4?

A tech-ish channel that's available for DirecTV/Dish subscribers (not sure if it's available for cable, too). They used to have some techy shows but now all they show is Cops and Cheaters. (not that I'm complaining or anything, I like both )

It's on WOW! here, so I'm assuming it is on cable

It's available here on Comcast too, but only on digital cable lineup.

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General Weather Chat / Re: Severe Weather Threat: Tuesday, October 26th

« on: October 26, 2010, 11:45:40 AM »

Isn't it kinda odd that the PDS Tornado Watch is in the South when the high risk is in IL?

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General Discussion / Re: Commercials You Loathe

« on: October 25, 2010, 08:53:31 PM »

Any political commercial.

I can't argue with that, Election Day can't get here soon enough.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: October 25, 2010, 08:49:21 PM »

I Think the long one is better. Gives more room to add other text if needed. Although i think it should be a little faded/transparent on the right side. 

I posted one with 80% and 100% transparency. I also changed the gradient colors direction with the blues starting from the left, the purple in the middle and the oranges moving to the right. You might can even see the waves of one color transitioning to another. 

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: October 25, 2010, 07:43:40 PM »

Thank you Donovan. 

I came up with an idea for a different titlebar, what looks better? The Short or Long one?

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: October 25, 2010, 06:16:29 AM »

69° Mostly Cloudy - TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1PM EDT
There's a very nasty line of storms quickly approaching my area. I love severe weather in the fall. 

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: October 24, 2010, 03:51:24 PM »

HD 4000 Concept: More Modern, Yet Still Old School  Good, Bad, OK, etc? 

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Emulator Videos / Re: SnowManiac's Emulations

« on: October 23, 2010, 12:10:46 PM »

WeatherStar Junior Emulation Phase Two - Shadowing/TCF (Oct Update)

WeatherStar Junior Emulation - Shadowing TCF (Oct 2010 Update)

October Update:
Shadowing added to text
Travel Cities Forecast Completed (Info not valid)

Also I didn't notice it until afterwards, but I made a minor mistake with the layering on the TCF, the LDL covers the ending part of the crawl that's why it disappears as soon as the TCF comes up, it'll be corrected in the next video.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: October 22, 2010, 11:14:31 PM »

Picking up with an AE project I haven't updated since June this year, It's my WeatherStar Junior Emulation! In this update, I added shadowing to the text, it's also on the test for the date and weather info on the LDL but for some reason it's not showing up as well as the other text so I'll have to do that over again I guess. Also only the Current Conditions screen has been done with the shadowing because sometime over the summer I lost my original AE file of the JR on my flashdrive so I have to do this over from scratch. To see it in action you have to download the video attachment below (Don't worry it's only 632 KB big or 15 secs.) 

SIDE NOTE: I'm still trying to figure out how to do a time ticker, so that's why the time is missing and will be missing in the next update.

The following segments will be completed with the shadowing tomorrow:
Local Forecast (36 Hour)
Extended Forecast (3 Day)
Travel Cities Forecast

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday Martin!

« on: October 22, 2010, 06:29:31 PM »

Happy Birthday Martin!

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General Weather Chat / When Do You Expect the First Snowfall to Happen In Your Area?

« on: October 20, 2010, 08:21:52 PM »

I'm interested in knowing when you guys think you'll see the first flakes fall where you live. For my area I'm guessing around the Thanksgiving Holidays or shortly right after. Thanksgiving Week is the earliest I have ever seen the first snowflakes fall here which was back in 2006 two days before my birthday, that's a rare treat.

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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops

« on: October 18, 2010, 10:42:46 PM »

My Autumn BG