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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 05, 2008, 12:08:45 AM »

We had some bad storms roll through here around 3Pm ET. About 4PM ET I lost power, and on my trusty police scanner (which, conveniently enough also receives NOAA) I heard reports of tornadoes spotted by trained weather spotters.

Also interesting is that for the first time EVER the EAS was activated several times during the course of the evening, once interrupting the local news just before power went out (the other two times were on the radio).

Scary moments for sure. 

Maryland, D.C., and Northern Virginia got pounded twice today. Once in the afternoon, then again in the mid evening. Both events featured major bow echos, which spawned a few tornadoes.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: June 04, 2008, 05:57:49 PM »

I checked NWS and I don't see a tornado warning in your area.

Neither do I. I think Vic might have confused Watches and Warnings.

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The Game Room / Re: A game, put the wrong emoticon at the end of the sentence

« on: June 04, 2008, 05:28:13 PM »

It's way too warm in my room. 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 04, 2008, 04:36:31 PM »

Donno if this should be here or not, but they are calling for "Titan X" (x is a number) for radars now...I know at least on Monday they called for "Sky X"...maybe Titan has phased everything out?

Steve has an interesting theory about this, and the more I think about, the more I can believe it. It would seem that they're piping SkyTracker through Titan. I've heard both references to SkyTracker and Titan today from Dave and Vivian, respectively. It makes sense because SkyTracker is still obviously being used some fashion; the radar's behavior is a giveaway, as are the remnants of Interstate font on some cities.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows

« on: June 04, 2008, 04:10:56 PM »

They're using what seems to be a generic Serve Weather graphic (which I've seen a few times today during Day Planner and Weather Center), and I believe that may be the only new graphic which actually uses the TWC|HD logo.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Billy's Artwork

« on: June 04, 2008, 03:09:28 PM »

Mock up of what I think advisory crawls could look like on the new IS LDL:

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Local Forecast / Re: New background for IntelliStar Weather Bulletins

« on: June 04, 2008, 02:27:15 PM »

Hmm, my bad. That IS the old background. I guess I didn't recognize it because the old ISV1 kind of blocked out that sun glare at the bottom.

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Local Forecast / New background for IntelliStar Weather Bulletins

« on: June 04, 2008, 01:46:42 PM »

Okay, it's not exactly a new background, but it appears to be a mix of the old Weather Bulletins background and the new one. Presumably it was updated in Monday's IntelliStar update.

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Local Forecast / Re: TWC music artists on MySpace

« on: June 04, 2008, 01:35:52 PM »

sorry , is this okay or do have to know the artist personally .

That is okay. I don't think anyone here personally knows any TWC artists.

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Local Forecast / Re: IS LDL

« on: June 04, 2008, 01:12:27 PM »

In case anyone is wondering, here is how Tornado Watches look on the LDL:



This was after the old red crawl ran for ten minutes.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: June 04, 2008, 12:11:47 PM »

BTW, speaking of Billy, I noticed he's shying away from this conversation all the sudden. 

Just sitting here patiently waiting for Brian to email me back.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Al's Art

« on: June 04, 2008, 12:32:05 AM »

They look great to me. Nice work as always, Al.  :sunglasses:

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: June 04, 2008, 12:27:25 AM »

Random thought: Could they theoretically turn the video wall into a huge chroma key? Wouldn't all they need to do is project a solid color onto the screen and move a few cameras?

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Billy's Artwork

« on: June 04, 2008, 12:01:29 AM »

Not bad!

It almost looks like a sheet of graph paper.

Thanks. I was kind of going for that work-in-progress look, so I tried out a grid background (like some of TWC's HD graphics have), and I thought it looked good, so I kept it.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Billy's Artwork

« on: June 03, 2008, 11:57:31 PM »

Just playing around with a new look for the IntelliStar...



Any comments?