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

« on: June 09, 2012, 05:39:23 PM »

We are as hot as our friends in Dallas right now - a blazing 91 and very breezy. Winds are gusting to 40 mph which should continue into Monday.

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

« on: June 08, 2012, 10:54:02 PM »

71 and clear. Windy and stormy conditions expected tomorrow - large hail anticipated.

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General Weather Chat / Re: National Weather Service that serves/ used to serve your area

« on: June 08, 2012, 11:52:32 AM »

I've always been served by Memphis, TN and the KNQA radar.

Just curious, does anyone know the smallest and largest WFOs, respectively?

I don't know the smallest, but I'm willing to bet that the NWS in Peachtree City, GA is the largest in terms of CWA size........ They got all of the counties from the old WSO at Atlanta, the largest part of the counties from the old WSO in Macon, the largest part of the counties from the old WSO at Athens, a large number of the counties from the old WSO at Columbus, GA, and two or three counties from the old Savannah WSO........ I think they have 96 counties in their CWA......... By the smallest WSO, the one in Apalachicola had two counties in it's CWA. The smallest WFO is probably out west- El Paso, Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, etc;

If we're talking area by the number of counties, then sure. If we're talking number of square miles, then I think the Las Vegas WFO takes the cake for the largest area, while Huntsville or New York is the smallest.

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

« on: June 07, 2012, 07:18:48 PM »

85 and Partly Cloudy. Strong thunderstorms pushing north from Fargo should get here in about 2 hours or so.

EDIT: storms moved a lot faster than expected. Dark clouds outside!

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General Discussion / Re: Economy Tracker

« on: June 07, 2012, 12:43:10 PM »

Just because gas prices are falling doesn't mean we're going into another recession... the stocks are still going up.

I have to disagree. Yes individual domestic stocks may be going up, but if you watched the stock market throughout the month of May, you'll notice that stocks dropped almost by 1,000 within a month.

There is a big difference, however, between a recession and a correction, which is what is most likely happening. Every few months after a big jump in stocks, prices usually take a 10-15% drop over the period of a few weeks - investors call this a correction. Yes, I expect stocks to continue falling for another week or two, before another long term rebound occurs.

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General Weather Chat / Re: National Weather Service that serves/ used to serve your area

« on: June 06, 2012, 04:02:35 PM »

North Dakota had three or four offices around before the modernization of NWS came around. Today, I'm served by Grand Forks (15 minute walk from my dorm room  ).

Originally (and I'm not sure on this; trying to remember what a NWS friend of mine told me), we had an office in Fargo, one in Bismarck, and one in a tiny little town called Williston. You may know that town as where ND has had its recent oil boom.

Anyway, when modernization came around, ND was put under total control by Bismarck (western and central ND) and Fargo (eastern ND and northwestern MN), before Fargo relocated from the Hector Airfield and moved to Grand Forks, on UND's campus. Ironically, the Williston office is still technically in service - there are only two employees there that man the phones. We have no clue when it will be shut down.

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

« on: June 06, 2012, 11:28:42 AM »

70 and overcast with a high of 85.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Nicole Mitchell sues The Weather Channel

« on: June 05, 2012, 08:26:55 PM »

The only thing I'm going to address about that is that Marshall Seese wasn't forced off TWC. He retired.

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

« on: June 05, 2012, 08:39:55 AM »

60 and Mostly Cloudy. High of 87 today. Now, I know that's not hot by my old Southern standards, but after a year up here, anything above 80 suddenly feels sweltering. 

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Your Local Weather / Re: Grand Forks Weather

« on: June 04, 2012, 10:28:22 PM »

Grand Forks hit 80 degrees today for the first time in three weeks, and it shouldn't get any warmer throughout the next several days.

We currently are sitting in an Omega Block, which is keeping us nice and dry at least through the next 38 hours before it breaks down on Thursday afternoon, bringing in an increased chance of showers and thunderstorms from then on out. SPC is quite confident about a severe weather episode on Sunday - the overall extended outlook is posted below.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Nicole Mitchell sues The Weather Channel

« on: June 04, 2012, 07:18:13 PM »

I do wish Nicole the best in this matter. NBC and TWC are going to get a lot of negative press about this, so I wouldn't be surprised if they try to settle out of court. Personally, I want to see this go to trial.

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

« on: June 04, 2012, 12:18:59 PM »

78 with a few clouds. Will finally break 80 degrees for the first time in weeks here.

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General Weather Chat / Re: Weather Photo Thread

« on: June 03, 2012, 08:54:31 PM »

A strong cell to the northeast of Grand Forks, with a confirmed tornado on it.

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

« on: June 03, 2012, 01:06:55 PM »

64 and Overcast. Rain/Fog/Mist earlier this morning.

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General Discussion / Re: Other TV you watch besides TWC

« on: June 02, 2012, 11:19:45 PM »

Haven't watched the Hub. The only old cartoons I've watched in the last few days is Scooby-Doo, and I was watching that online.