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General Discussion / Re: Explosions Rock Boston Marathon
« on: April 15, 2013, 05:40:56 PM »
Oh great, now the government is going to blame all of us over this and make more laws...

Can we refrain from making comments like this, please? This is a national tragedy.

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General Discussion / Re: Explosions Rock Boston Marathon
« on: April 15, 2013, 04:39:24 PM »
Unofficial word of explosions in Dorchester, MA, at the JFK Library. Not confirmed.

My deepest prayers for those in Boston. This is scary.  :(

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Severe Weather / MDT Risk - April 17th
« on: April 15, 2013, 04:10:36 AM »
A fairly rare Day 3 MDT risk has been issued for a good chunk of Oklahoma, southeast Kansas, and southwest Missouri, including the city of Joplin. Right now it looks like the biggest threat prompting this is large hail, although the tornado potential is definitely there.

IF there are going to be any significant tornadoes, I would expect them to be near the southern end of the MDT risk - so the Red River Basin, OKC area, possibly Tulsa. SPC hasn't mentioned significant tornadoes so, along with them, my confidence in saying so is very, very low. We'll see what happens.

Hopefully this doesn't bust.  :club:


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Winter Weather / Re: Winter Storm Thread: 2011-12 Season
« on: April 15, 2013, 04:03:23 AM »
BUMP.

Regarding winter weather, Bismarck ND broke the all-time record for most snow in a 24 hour period, racking up 16 inches of snow so far.

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?
« on: April 14, 2013, 09:10:20 PM »
33° and...sigh...snow. Still. On April 14th.

Winter Storm Warning remains in effect until 1 PM tomorrow.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2013
« on: April 09, 2013, 02:07:38 AM »
Moderate Risk. Oklahoma City is in this one.


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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2013
« on: April 09, 2013, 12:29:12 AM »
Easiest. Frontal. Analysis. Ever.

This event is gonna be fun interesting!

EDIT: To avoid coming across as a total insensitive jerk, I've edited my comment. :P


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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2013
« on: April 07, 2013, 04:18:59 AM »
Big slight risk out covering 30 million people, and a healthy-sized 30% probability range with significant hashings. Just enough uncertainty in the forecast to hold off from anything higher, but I expect an upgrade for the morning of Day 1, if not Day 2.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2013
« on: April 03, 2013, 10:37:29 PM »
I smell a severe weather outbreak for the Southern Plains and Lower MS Valley early next week. At this point it definitely looks like a Moderate Risk situation, and if the shear improves, I cannot rule out the possibility of a High Risk. Definitely something to keep an eye on as the pattern finally turns unstable.

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General Discussion / Re: Alternative(s) to The Weather Channel
« on: March 27, 2013, 03:30:54 PM »
WeatherNation is quickly gaining a healthy reputation for 24/7 weather coverage, although their live stream is repeating pre-recorded clips, which they do twice a day.

http://weathernationtv.com/LocalWeather

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: March 24, 2013, 01:02:04 AM »
Lets take at a look at here. We aren't looking at any warm temps until the end of March, early April. Here, when we get huge warm spells, are limited to inland places. Sea breezes lower our temps during significant warm spells. So even if it does warm up, a sea breeze will drop the temps. While inland places would be in the 70's all day with light winds, here we'll have 70's for an hour, then a gusty sea breeze will pick up, drop us back into the low 60's. Severe weather? Here? Forget about it. The ocean ruins every opportunity for severe weather until June. April and May, you'll never get severe weather. The cold ocean will annihilate the convective cell of any thunderstorm. Snow lover? Forget it? While inland places will be buried, we'll be warm and rain, or we'll be snow but not accumulate. Get the idea? Spring weather sucks here. The only time it is good is after a frontal pass with a NW wind to counter-act the sea breeze and actually give us a warm day. Oh and sometimes if it's a cold spring, good luck finding the sun.

NWS Forecast:

Overnight Clear, with a low around 29. Northwest wind around 11 mph.

Sunday Sunny, with a high near 45. Northwest wind around 10 mph.

Sunday Night A chance of snow, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. Northeast wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday Snow likely, mainly after 8am. Cloudy, with a high near 40. Breezy, with a northeast wind 13 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Monday Night Snow likely, mainly before 2am. Cloudy, with a low around 32. Breezy, with a north wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Tuesday Partly sunny, with a high near 44.

Tuesday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33.

Wednesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 46.

Wednesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 34.

Thursday Mostly sunny, with a high near 46.

Thursday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 35.

Friday Mostly sunny, with a high near 47.

Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 35.

Saturday Partly sunny, with a high near 48.

Spring still has no intention of showing up here. We've smashed so many record low temperature records in the last few days, I've been getting dizzy. Record lows of -23, -13, and -9. We will finally climb above freezing next week. Snow is still sticking around, river is iced over and going to flood big time (Fargo is going to have a rough spring).

Long story short, this pattern sucks and I want that stupid groundhog burned at the stake.

Seeing how much weather is dominating the conversation lately even on here, would you all be interested in having the weather boards expanded to allow you all more room for model discussions, forecasting, or even perhaps a weather trivia game or forecasting contest?  I gave everyone ideas in that thread several months ago, but I haven't seen anyone else try it, and I really don't want to do it all by myself.  So, I'd like some help from my team and from all of you with thoughts.

I would love to see this. C'mon, people. Anyone else up for this?

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: March 21, 2013, 04:43:09 PM »
The Storm Prediction Center unveiled their new design, which they will switch to on March 28th. Only thing I can say is excellent!  :thrilled:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/new/

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: March 20, 2013, 12:51:12 PM »
Doesn't feel like spring here at all. I want that stupid groundhog beheaded!  :club:

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?
« on: March 18, 2013, 09:00:50 AM »
21° Light Snow/Fog/Mist

Due to blizzard conditions, classes have been cancelled today.  :biggrin:

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?
« on: March 17, 2013, 08:33:16 PM »
17° Overcast. One final snowstorm/blizzard on the way.

Official records show the low last night was -23°. This broke the daily record low for the city, which was -14° back in 1967. This is also the coldest temperature recorded for Grand Forks for the 2012-2013 winter season.

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