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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: March 28, 2010, 05:06:42 PM »

I heard Joyce Cooling's "South of Market" from the IntelliStar's backup playlist about 10 minutes ago. I'm assuming due to the severe weather and the tornado watch out to my east.

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General Weather Chat / Re: Summer 2010 Discussion

« on: March 27, 2010, 05:46:28 PM »

I would have to disagree with alot of the sentiment you've mentioned about the hot weather, Tavores. A couple of factors are combining here. Let's not forget the summer of 2007, which was rather warm. I know I hit 96 during July that summer. So there's not only that correlation, but we have much more sunspot activity than we did in 2007. Plus, remember, there was some widespread hot weather last summer.

As for the hurricane season, we are coming out of an El Nino and transitioning into a La Nina pattern, so I would say that activity will increase over last year (granted, not dramatically, but case and point). The tracks and non-conducive conditions are nearly unpredictable, imo.

Like I said, I think there will be warm/hot spells, but I don't think they will be long lasting over my region. The areas I believe will get blasted with heat will be in what is "Tornado Alley" over the Plains region 95° and above over a span of a few weeks. Eventhough this was a pretty decent El Nino even we have been in, it's also been unusual compared to others including the analog El Nino year of 2006-07'. That's why I don't want to compare what happened after that El Nino to what will happen after this one. Although, you could be right when it comes to sunspot activity. If it does continue to increase during the summer, this summer may be similar to how the Summer of 2007 was, but right now I just don't think it will be.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: March 27, 2010, 05:22:39 PM »

It's kinda odd to see the 7 day jump to the Traffic Flow map w/o the other two traffic maps coming before that like I just saw a couple of minutes ago.

I haven't been seeing my traffic map all morning here either.

This brings me to another question, When did they bring back the regional maps at :08/:38?

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 27, 2010, 04:52:30 PM »

As far as I'm concerned, I've been participating ever since I began turning off the water while I brush my teeth, and turning off lights and the TV when I leave the room.

I usually do those things daily, I also unplug my desktop computer when I'm not using it.

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General Weather Chat / Re: Summer 2010 Discussion

« on: March 27, 2010, 04:43:40 PM »

Hoping it'll be warmer than usual like in 06 and 07....

2 weeks of 100+ temps, no thanks. If we have that kind of Summer again down here I'm gonna have to walk around naked.

But anyway, As far as the Southeast, I think it will be similar to last summer. Cool and wet with occasional warm spells in between. I'm not ready to say "hot spells" because my definition of that would be 95° and above temps for more than 3 hours during the day and I don't think that will happen in widespread areas east of the Miss. River Valley. Severe Weather during the summer months should be average or slightly below average as well as any flash flooding events.

Now, for Hurricane Season 2010, if your expecting a thrilling, wild, exciting hurricane season, I don't think it will be in the cards this year, but we may have a couple more storms than last year. I don't have the SSTs saved on my computer atm, but areas such as the Gulf of Mexico are well below average for late March heading into April with 60's for water temps along the north/central Gulf thanks to our vigorous El Nino where we had numerous arctic fronts sweep throughout the GOM & FL cooling water temps, but in areas that are typically not so warm are seeing slightly above and in some cases well above water temps in along the EC and the East/Central ATL. So any tropical development I believe will be in these areas. The African wave express I believe will be active this year as well, but whether or not they recurve or make it to the US will depend on track and other hinderers such as dry airmass, cooler waters, and wind shear.

Target Areas Chances of being hit by a Tropical Storm or Hurricane (Minor or Major)

East Coast (Eastside of FL up to Maine) - 65%
Gulf Coast (TX to FL) - 35%

If anyone wants to know, here are the names for Hurricane Season 2010:
Alex
Bonnie
Colin
Danielle
Earl
Fiona
Gaston
Hermine
Igor
Julia
Karl
Lisa
Matthew
Nicole
Otto
Paula
Richard
Shary
Tomas
Virginie
Walter

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 27, 2010, 03:30:34 PM »

It wouldn't matter if I did it or not, we don't use the lights in our house that much during the day or night anyway, but I might turn off or unplug anything that I'm not using. TBH I didn't know Earth Hour was tonight until I heard about it this morning.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: March 27, 2010, 10:42:15 AM »

It's kinda odd to see the 7 day jump to the Traffic Flow map w/o the other two traffic maps coming before that like I just saw a couple of minutes ago.

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General Discussion / Re: Great Commercials

« on: March 26, 2010, 06:21:15 PM »

This one has always made me LMAO when I see it. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEJJUGJZxpU

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Emulator Videos / Re: LOT8's emulator clips

« on: March 23, 2010, 07:32:00 PM »

Features Simple Pleasure by jeanne ricks. For some reason, the video loads on my channel but says "processing" on the direct link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NThiedbZjbs

I had to watch it from your channel because of that problem.

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday, Jake Heinrich!

« on: March 22, 2010, 07:01:14 PM »

Happy birthday Jake! 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 21, 2010, 11:04:15 PM »

Spring still not here...4+ inches of snow this morning. Hopefully tomorrow will be in the mid-60s as forecasted.

Wow!!

Hit 81F Saturday which was a surprised to me. Warm temps have been nice

Geez, 81° already? It's only gotten upto 73° here on Saturday, but I guess you were warmer because your closer to the coast.

Really? Usually temps are cooler by the coast

Uusally it is, but sometimes certain things happen that can make it the opposite like clouds and rain./ Take last April, a lot of you saw 90's, it never got that warm down here until June because of all the clouds and rain we saw.

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General Discussion / Re: Healthcare

« on: March 21, 2010, 10:52:51 PM »

Just an Update:

Health Care Bill Passes through the House

219 yes 212 no

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 21, 2010, 10:17:29 PM »

Spring still not here...4+ inches of snow this morning. Hopefully tomorrow will be in the mid-60s as forecasted.

Wow!!

Hit 81F Saturday which was a surprised to me. Warm temps have been nice

Geez, 81° already? It's only gotten upto 73° here on Saturday, but I guess you were warmer because your closer to the coast.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: March 21, 2010, 06:52:46 PM »

Trammell at 6:48pm EDT - Phish plays for a few seconds before abruptly stopping, then the LF goes silent before Trammell kicks in at the end.

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General Weather Chat / Re: Winter of 2009-2010 Review

« on: March 21, 2010, 04:47:45 PM »

Review from NOAA:

U.S. Temperature Highlights

High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
For the winter season, 63 percent of the country experienced below normal temperatures. In contrast to this national trend, Maine experienced the third warmest winter.
February’s average temperature was 32.4 degrees F, which is 2.2 degrees below the long-term average.
Cold air in the wake of several reinforcing Arctic air masses dominated much of the United States during February, creating temperatures that were much-below average in the Deep South and below average in the Plains and mid-Atlantic states. Both the South and Southeast climate regions experienced their seventh coldest February on record. Meanwhile, warmer-than-average temperatures dominated the Northwest and Northeast climate regions.
Florida had its fourth coldest February, Louisiana its fifth coldest, and Alabama, Georgia and Texas each had their sixth coldest. It was the seventh coldest February in Arkansas, while both Mississippi and South Carolina experienced their eighth coldest.
U.S. Precipitation Highlights

High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
Precipitation for the winter season was above average while it averaged slightly below the long term mean for the month of February.
The season-long wet spell was notable for the Southeast, as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina each had their eighth wettest winter. Precipitation was also much above normal for South Dakota, Virginia, New Jersey and Maryland. Wyoming and Idaho experienced their eighth and ninth driest winters, respectively.
Regionally, the active weather pattern in the South, Southwest, and Northeast created above normal precipitation for the month. The Northwest, West North Central, East North Central, and Central climate regions each had below-normal February precipitation. On the state level, New Mexico experienced its seventh wettest February on record. Conversely, Idaho had its seventh driest, and Wyoming its eighth driest.
Other Highlights
Major snowstorms on Feb. 4-7 and Feb. 9-11 plagued the Atlantic states. These storms ranked as Category Three (major) and Two (significant) storms respectively on the Northeast Snow Impacts Scale (NESIS). Combined and treated as one storm, they would become only the third Category Five (extreme) storm (the most extreme category) of the NESIS record.
A third storm, also ranking as a Category Three on the NESIS scale, occurred across southern New England on Feb. 23-28. February 2010 is the first month during the NESIS period of record, since 1956, to place three storms of Category Two or greater.
Several seasonal snowfall records were set: (previous record)
Baltimore: 79.9 inches (62.5 inches, 1995-96)
Washington (Dulles): 72.8 inches (61.9 inches, 1995-96)
Washington (National): 55.9 inches (54.4 inches, 1898-1899)
Wilmington, Del.: 66.7 inches (55.9 inches, 1995-96)
Philadelphia: 71.6 inches (65.5 inches, 1995-96)
Atlantic City, N.J.: 49.9 inches (46.9 inches, 1966-67)
In several eastern cities, February was the snowiest month on record: (previous record)
Washington (Dulles): 46.1 inches (34.9 inches, February 2003)
Central Park, N.Y.: 36.9 inches  (30.5 inches, March 1896)
Pittsburgh: 48.7 inches (40.2 inches, January 1978)