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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 06, 2014, 11:49:01 AM »

25°F Partly to Mostly Cloudy

We've been having flurries/light snow off and on this morning.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 06, 2014, 12:35:10 AM »

We've reached our daytime high of 51°F and now temperatures are beginning their downward spiral.

The arctic front rolled in after midnight

12:15am - 51°F
12:35am - 47.6°F

Temperature dropped nearly 4 degrees in 20 minutes.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 05, 2014, 09:47:08 PM »

Even more impressive than yesterday.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 05, 2014, 06:37:51 PM »

Let the excitement begin!

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 05, 2014, 03:08:23 PM »

If anyone wants to keep track of the progress of the cold, Intellicast's interactive temperature map is really good. The front has gone through Little Rock, AR and temps dropped from 54 to 42 within 30 minutes!

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx?latitude=33.75&longitude=-84.39&zoomLevel=8&opacity=1&basemap=0014&layers=0055,0120

Meh, I've witnessed a summer thunderstorm that brought our temps down from 84 to 64 within 30 minutes.

It's not a competition. Besides, you can't really compare a temp drop that involves heat to a temp drop that involves cold. It's day and night the way they work.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 05, 2014, 10:30:01 AM »

If anyone wants to keep track of the progress of the cold, Intellicast's interactive temperature map is really good. The front has gone through Little Rock, AR and temps dropped from 54 to 42 within 30 minutes!

Temp Gradients in AR is crazy, Fayetteville is 18 while Pine Bluff is 54.

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx?latitude=33.75&longitude=-84.39&zoomLevel=8&opacity=1&basemap=0014&layers=0055,0120

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 05, 2014, 07:09:54 AM »

TWC in Storm Mode again for Winter Storm Ion as of 7am ET.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: luesjo12's Art

« on: January 05, 2014, 07:08:29 AM »

Awesome job! I could see WS realistically resembling this with the new graphics package.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 05, 2014, 06:52:02 AM »

Tavores, you need a wind chill calculator as your guess was not even close.   Here, use this page with a handy chart at the top and an actual calculator at the bottom:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/windchill/index.shtml

Just enter the air temperature and the sustained wind, and it will give you the wind chill value.  Do not use wind gusts as they are not suitable for determining what it feels like on average.  The wind chill value is only defined for air temperatures above -50°F but below 50°F and for sustained winds above 3 mph but below 110 mph.

Yeah, WAY off. My guess would have been close if I was talking about our forecast low instead though.

Wind Chill Advisory was issued along with a Winter Weather Advisory (does not include Atlanta metro)

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
627 AM EST SUN JAN 5 2014

GAZ022-023-033-034-044-045-053>055-060000-
/O.NEW.KFFC.WC.Y.0002.140106T1600Z-140107T1800Z/
FORSYTH-HALL-NORTH FULTON-GWINNETT-SOUTH FULTON-DEKALB-COWETA-
FAYETTE-CLAYTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GAINESVILLE...ATLANTA...LAWRENCEVILLE...
EAST POINT...DECATUR...NEWNAN...PEACHTREE CITY
627 AM EST SUN JAN 5 2014

...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MONDAY TO 1 PM EST
TUESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND
CHILL ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MONDAY TO 1 PM EST
TUESDAY.

* LOCATIONS...NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA.

* HAZARD TYPES...LOW WIND CHILL VALUES.

* WIND CHILL READINGS...AS LOW AS 10 BELOW.

* TIMING...MIDDAY MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

* IMPACTS...FROST BITE WHICH CAN LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS
  ARE NOT TAKEN.

* WINDS...NORTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS
WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS.
THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF
PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN.  IF YOU MUST VENTURE
OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.

&&

$$

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 05, 2014, 12:26:19 AM »

Hmm... NWS just dropped our temperatures for Monday.  Looks like the cold will be dipping farther south.  First time I can remember seeing the "Cold" icon on the 7-day for Dallas in awhile (and some of you are probably laughing right now ).

Maybe a little...

If the 0z GFS run tonight verifies I'm not getting above 20 Tuesday with 25-35 mph winds. On top of that throw in the chance of snow showers.  I have no idea what that equates to in wind chill value, but if I were to spitball it probably not far from -20°F

30°F is still cold if you throw in some stiff NW winds though.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 04, 2014, 07:15:50 PM »

Very frustrating how any precipitation wants to completely skip over Texas (excluding the panhandle).   We didn't receive anything from the last storm and won't from this one.  At this rate, the drought in the state is only going to worsen if no precipitation falls, which will lead to a nasty 2014.

Yeah, in order to help you out on the precip side, the developing surface low pressure would need to dig much further south towards the Gulf of Mexico so it can draw up some precipitation from there. As soon as the low develops and deepens, it's already in Central Arkansas shooting on up into the Great Lakes/W. NY state into Eastern Canada.

If I had any control over the weather, I would certainly change that. You just don't know how many times I've wished that was possible.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 04, 2014, 03:49:38 PM »

Active Weather Bulletins across the United States Pertaining to the Extreme Cold or Wintry Weather. Nothing short of amazing if you ask me.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: January 04, 2014, 01:59:56 PM »

I think you don't understand, my ldl runs all throughout the LF, and still is continuing to do so.

Yeah I know, it's doing it here too. It may be done on purpose.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 04, 2014, 01:21:25 PM »

I feel for the folks in Minnesota who are the ones that will hurt most from this. Those poor brave souls are probably building up igloos to stay warm.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: January 04, 2014, 12:42:57 PM »

The only problem is it blocks the rundown area at the bottom that tells you what forecast products are coming up next. It's not a big deal, they could just remove it and leave the LDL running. It looks better that way imo.