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General Discussion / Re: Sports Thread

« on: September 25, 2012, 01:26:55 AM »

Anyone else amazed by the horrendous officiating of the Green Bay vs. Seattle game? That last call was, by far, the worst I have ever seen. Green Bay should have won that game, IMO. Hands down.

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

« on: September 24, 2012, 07:52:53 PM »

66° Mostly Sunny and Breezy

The growing season across all of North Dakota has ended this season, and for this reason, both NWS Grand Forks and Bismarck will no longer issue Frost Advisories, Freeze Warnings, or Hard Freeze Warnings until next spring.

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: General IS2 Discussion

« on: September 24, 2012, 01:54:29 PM »

Update on GOES-13:

THE NESDIS SOCC...SATELLITE OPERATIONS CONTROL CENTER...HAS
ADVISED THAT DUE TO UNKNOWN PROBLEMS WITH THE GOES-13 SOUNDER
INSTRUMENT, THEY ARE PUTTING BOTH IT AND THE IMAGER INTO STANDBY
MODE TO PROTECT THEM FROM FURTHER DAMAGE.
GOES-15...GOES-WEST...WILL BE PUT INTO FULL DISK MODE. THEY ARE
STILL TROUBLESHOOTING THE PROBLEMS WITH GOES-13...AT THIS TIME
THERE IS NO ETA FOR RETURN TO SERVICE.

The major downside to this, especially for us tropical enthusiasts, is that there is now zero satellite imagery for the Atlantic ocean.

Welcome back to 1960. Well, not really...but it's a setback.

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

« on: September 23, 2012, 10:05:34 PM »

49° Clear. Update on last night - the recorded low was 26.

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

« on: September 22, 2012, 11:20:28 PM »

35° Clear. Well on our way to hitting our low of 25 this evening. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: September 22, 2012, 02:10:53 PM »

Pile on the logs, please - it's a bit on the cool side today, just like fall should be. It's only 52 and the low tonight is going to be in the mid 20s. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: September 21, 2012, 02:57:56 PM »

Well, we have a ridge that is going to warm us back into the 70s, so the Stove may be a bit toasty for the first few weeks.

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

« on: September 20, 2012, 09:48:25 PM »

54° Light Rain.

Gusty winds expected tomorrow - gusts up to 45 mph expected to our west with 40 mph gusts here in town.

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Your Local Weather / Re: Grand Forks Weather

« on: September 19, 2012, 09:03:48 PM »

It may have only been by a degree, but we set a new record low on Tuesday!

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
143 AM CDT WED SEP 19 2012

...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET AT GRAND FORKS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18TH...

THE LOW TEMPERATURE AT GRAND FORKS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 32
DEGREES ON TUESDAY. THIS BREAKS THE PREVIOUS RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE
OF 33 DEGREES SET IN 1973.

$$

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Programming / Re: Local Radars circa 1989

« on: September 18, 2012, 07:06:38 PM »

Those radar codes were based off the airports in the city - those codes you are mentioning are used by the FAA to identify airports. They have some clever stories behind them.

ORD - Original name of the airport when it was a military field in the Chicago suburb of "Orchard Place."

BNA - Nashville airport. The "NA" stands for Nashville. The "B" stands for Berry, the last name of Harry Berry, the head of the Tennessee Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.

MCO - Orlando International Airport. MCO stands for "McCoy," the name of the old air force base in the same general location of the airfield.

MSY - I will let a news article tell the story of New Orleans:

MSY: Last, and certainly the best airport code story of all is the three letter code designation of the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. On the last day of 1910, John Moisant, the first person to build and fly a plane with an all metal frame, and the first pilot to fly over the English Channel with a passenger and an animal, died of a broken neck after he was thrown out of his nose-diving aircraft at the current location of New Orleans’ major airport.

Stock yards for cattle were later put on the land where Moisant met his fate. The owners wanted to honor John Moisant, so they called the stock yards the Moisant Stock Yards, or MSY for short.

The city of New Orleans later bought the stock yards for airfield construction and named the completed project Moisant Field. In 1962, Moisant Field was renamed New Orleans International Airport, but the stock yards’ designation still remains to this very day.

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

« on: September 17, 2012, 04:35:32 PM »

2:53 PM CDT...49° Light Rain.

Freeze Warning is now in effect for lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.

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Your Local Weather / Re: Grand Forks Weather

« on: September 17, 2012, 04:34:16 PM »

Freeze Warning in effect!

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
234 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2012

...ANOTHER CHILLY NIGHT EXPECTED...

.HIGH PRESSURE WILL DRIFT ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. THIS WILL
BRING A PERIOD OF CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WHICH WILL ALLOW
TEMPERATURES TO GET QUITE CHILLY AGAIN.

MNZ001-002-004>009-013>017-022>024-028-032-NDZ007-008-016-027-030-
054-181400-
/O.NEW.KFGF.FZ.W.0003.120918T0600Z-120918T1400Z/
WEST POLK-NORMAN-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-WEST MARSHALL-
EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-EAST POLK-
NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-
EAST BECKER-WADENA-CAVALIER-PEMBINA-EASTERN WALSH-GRAND FORKS-
TRAILL-WESTERN WALSH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS...
HALSTAD...HALLOCK...ROSEAU...BAUDETTE...WARREN...NEWFOLDEN...
RED LAKE...THIEF RIVER FALLS...RED LAKE FALLS...FOSSTON...
BAGLEY...BEMIDJI...MAHNOMEN...LAKE ITASCA...PARK RAPIDS...
WOLF LAKE...WADENA...LANGDON...CAVALIER...GRAFTON...GRAND FORKS...
MAYVILLE...ADAMS
234 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2012

...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT TUESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A FREEZE
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT TUESDAY.

* MORNING TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOW 30S ACROSS
  PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR
HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER
SENSITIVE VEGETATION.

&&

$$

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

« on: September 17, 2012, 09:39:45 AM »

45° Mostly Cloudy. A low of 30 is forecast tonight and a Freeze Warning may be put into effect later today.

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Winter Weather / Re: 2012-2013 Winter Outlook

« on: September 14, 2012, 05:52:19 PM »

As much as I would like to see snow the last week of September, GFS historically has had a bad tendency to overdo precipitation over the Northern Plains. The temperatures it has done very well with, however, so even though it may be cold enough, right now I have my doubts about snow during that time.

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

« on: September 14, 2012, 12:07:28 PM »

52° Sunny. Nice and crisp morning after a low of 31 last night.