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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: July 04, 2013, 06:46:21 PM »

What on earth is this? A new type of satellite LF? Don't they use these graphics during Day Planner? OMG WTF IS THIS? NEW LOCAL FORECAST?!

Yikes - the EF is not SD safe!

More discussion on the EF and its new look can be found here: https://twctodayforums.com/forums/local-forecast/emergency-feed-sightnings/msg183199/#msg183199

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: July 04, 2013, 12:48:38 PM »

Before going to break, they were talking about the flood threat in the southeast, but the lower third said "Southwest Flood Threat."  We can only wish...

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: July 03, 2013, 10:24:01 PM »

I'm very anxious to see what's in store for the LOT8s later this year.  It's hard to believe that in October the SD IntelliSTAR will be approaching its sixth year since the latest upgrade.  With the Emergency Feed running on TruVu Max now, I wonder if the locals will follow suit?

On the other hand, I am perfectly fine with the graphics TWC currently has and am not looking forward to a change any time soon.  TWC updates their on-air graphics far too often in my opinion.  Is that all the graphics department does?  The day new graphics debut they have to go back to the drawing board and start making even better ones?

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Forecasting / Re: Spring/Summer Weather Discussion Thread

« on: July 03, 2013, 12:52:03 PM »

With an upper-level high in the West causing a tremendous heat wave and an upper-level low in the East causing cool temperatures and relentless rain, we have been stuck right in the "middle" with northerly flow, resulting in well-below average temperatures.  Whereas daytime highs have only been a few degrees below average, morning lows have been close to records.

Yesterday (July 2), DFW was only one degree shy from tying a record low of 65 degrees, set in 1924 and 1924.
Today (July 3), DFW was two degrees shy from tying the record low of 63 degrees, set in 1924.

Waco, TX (about an hour south of here) saw a different story.  As they are away from the city and are not subject to urban heating, they set not only a record low of 58 degrees this morning, breaking the old record of 64 degrees in 1924, but also an all-time record low for July, which was formerly 60 degrees.

I find it incredible how many record lows parts of the Southern Plains have experienced so far this year.  And to think that only two years ago we were dealing with the hottest summer on record!

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: July 03, 2013, 12:23:07 AM »

Ana, would you rather have all my rain instead that could float you away in a flood?   The East will gladly trade you for some kind of weather that actually resembles summertime.

As you mentioned in the Spring/Summer discussion thread Patrick, I wish the current weather pattern across the United States could just flip-flop.  The East certainly doesn't need any more rain, while a great deal of the West is still in exceptional drought and begging for every drop possible.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Harmful Website Warning

« on: July 01, 2013, 01:18:03 PM »

Kaspersky is no longer blocking me from the site, but Google still lists it as a site that may harm my computer.  Hopefully this means that the issue is slowly being resolved.  Thanks for everyone's help!

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Harmful Website Warning

« on: June 30, 2013, 10:58:35 PM »

Is the host for this site still HostGo?

No, we're using HostGator now.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 30, 2013, 04:03:19 PM »

Well. I have no clue where to post this... so I'll post this here. When I try connecting to the website, I get this lovely message. When I "continue at my own risk", the home page loads but something malicious has been downloaded, says Chrome as well as Windows Defender. Anyone else get this...?

Here's the diagnostic report thing from Google: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http%3A%2F%2Ftwctodayforums.com%2F&client=googlechrome&hl=en-US

This is a known issue and is already being discussed.  Please see this topic:

https://twctodayforums.com/forums/questions-comments-suggestions/harmful-website-warning-4849/

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Harmful Website Warning

« on: June 30, 2013, 01:36:26 PM »

Phew!  So it's not just my computer being stupid.  I, too, started getting this error last night and am still getting it this afternoon.  I am using IE 10 and have Kaspersky Anti-virus which is stating that ALL of TWCT (forums and site) has a Trojan virus and is thus denying me access to the page.  Hopefully I'm safe typing this message on my smart phone!  But... It looks like many operating systems and browsers are being affected here.

As Patrick said, this must be an issue with our host server.  Unfortunately, Martin is the only one who can do something about this.  I apologize we moderators cannot fix the problem.

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

« on: June 28, 2013, 05:25:18 PM »

102ºF Mostly cloudy
Heat index: 105ºF

Terrible.  I was outside for about a minute and started sweating.

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Your Local Weather / Re: Dallas-Fort Worth weather

« on: June 27, 2013, 08:38:58 PM »

I seem to do this every year.

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

« on: June 27, 2013, 08:28:44 PM »

MEM's automated reporting system got a little confused with the hail lol

Yeah, the automated station is unable to distinguish hail from snow or sleet so that is why you are seeing that rather strange observation.

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

« on: June 27, 2013, 05:15:13 PM »

100°F Mostly cloudy

First triple-digit day of the year!

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Local Forecast / Re: Emergency Feed Sightings

« on: June 26, 2013, 01:03:35 AM »

What I am quite confused about is how (and more importantly, why) the EF went from this very simplistic set of screens (no transitions, animated icons, etc.) to this rather fancy display with map transitions, animating icons, and fresh new graphics.  I did not think the EF had the capability of doing this.  Furthermore, why the heck make something you hope to never have to show this fancy?  With the exception of the day-by-day map transitions, I honestly would prefer the EF over the current national satellite.  It looks stunning on a big HD TV.

Additionally, as Patrick mentioned, why save the "good stuff" (like a storm report map) for the EF?  That would be something very useful on a regular, local LF.  Unfortunately, these are probably questions that cannot be answered at this point.  With this talk of a supposed LoT8s revamp, maybe this is a sign of things to come.

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Local Forecast / Re: Emergency Feed Sightings

« on: June 25, 2013, 04:04:24 PM »

Noticed the EF came on after the LOT8's just before 3pm.

TWC

Wow!  They have a Storm Reports map on the Emergency Feed?!   I wonder what other hidden treasures it contains?  I don't think we've seen the new Emergency Feed loop all the way through yet, have we? 

Maybe this is a sign of things to come for the LOT8s.  I almost wish the EF would replace the regular national satellite, as the graphics on the EF are much clearer and match those with what TWC currently has on-air.  The only thing I wish could be better is, as Eric said, those day-by-day maps.