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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: May 26, 2012, 11:13:27 PM »

Just saw a commercial on TWC that says that "The Weather Channel Mornings is on 6-9am". They are completely ignoring the 9AM hour of YWT and the 10AM Repeat of WUWA.

We know TWC has some who aren't the brightest bulbs in the room. 

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

« on: May 26, 2012, 01:45:34 PM »

84° with periods of cloudiness and sunshine. High for today (my forecast) 90°. Not expecting much from Beryl other than some winds around 10-15mph and the off chance of a sea breeze shower or two. My forecast discussion is below.

 [MYRAFD]
USA Weather - Myrtle Beach, SC
Area Forecast Discussion
10:23 AM EDT Saturday, May 26, 2012

...Short Term Forecast.../6PM Sat-6PM Tue/....

In the short term the local weather patterns look to be quite messy with sub/tropical storm Beryl just offshore. This is the second tropical(sub/) to impact the FA within less than a week. We are keeping close tracking on it as this storm looks like it will do much more than Alberto did last weekend. On the way in to landfall, the system looks to produce minimal rainfall on Saturday and Sunday. However, once the system moves inland and then weakens into a depression early this week, it will possibly dump heavy rains from Tuesday-Wednesday enhanced by the moisture flow off the Atlantic and what the system will have already been carrying with it. The Severe Weather office has issued a Slight Risk for severe thunderstorms in the Day 2 Period for the area and all models indicate with the system coming ashore, it's not out of the question to see isolated severe convection form, however coverage is in question attm. Temperatures look to be a bit above average on Saturday, forecasting a high around the 90 degree mark. Temps then will fall back into the low-mid 80s for the rest of the period.

...Long Term Outlook/6PM Tue-6PM Sat/...

The long term period also looks a bit unsettled. Prefer to keep severe wording out of the forecast attm but it appears that some may be possible. After Beryl exits the area around the Thursday timeframe, a potent cold front will move in from the west. With the enhanced lift of the front combined with moist flow from the GOM/ATL it will be possible to see some days with isolated-scattered convection possibly becoming severe although it looks to be a bit too far out to tell now. Temperatures look to be on track with temps in the 80's thru the period. The cold front is forecasted to be out of the FA by late Saturday/Early Sunday. High pressure will build in behind thes ystem and allow for a few days of sunny weather.

GATLIN

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Hurricane Central / Re: Subtropical Storm Beryl

« on: May 26, 2012, 12:17:51 AM »

Oy. Here we go again. I'm already kinda tired of these tropical systems! It's only one week since I just dealt with the last one, and I dealt with that one for a WEEK. None the less, GA needs quite a bit of rain ditto for Florida.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 25, 2012, 08:13:34 AM »

On Xfinity, I've noticed that the SD and HD feeds of some of the channels I watch are not in sync. The HD feed would be ahead of the SD feed, like on Univisión, or it would be the other way around, like on TWC. I'm curious as to why this happens.

I'm pretty sure this happens on all cable/satellite providers.  For me, any HD channel always seems to lag a few seconds behind any SD channel.  I am not sure why, although there may be some discussion about it in the WUWA thread?

HD is much larger than SD, sometimes 2-4 times that size, so it takes a bit longer to transmit to your television.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: May 24, 2012, 11:24:42 PM »

I understand what you are saying but this is the only Weather Channel show that has this problem.
MSNBC broadcasts from the same building as Wake Up With Al, they show guests on an LCD monitor in studio and there is no audio and video delay.

The feeds are probably more local (IE, at the NBC headquarters.) When the video on the monitors are seen, it's coming from Atlanta most likely. Traveling that distance, why wouldn't it have a delay like that? There's a 5 second delay from TWC to your TV anyway (Well, that's required by regulations for content censoring).

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: May 24, 2012, 08:14:29 PM »

They need to fix the 2 second audio and video delay on the HDTV in the studio.
Any time someone on the monitor talking it's 2 seconds behind.

You can't fix that. That's the time it takes for the signal to travel, it's not quite instant.

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

« on: May 21, 2012, 09:41:49 PM »

73­° Fair. We had a few isolated afternoon thunderstorms, none severe. All were along with the sea-breeze. I'm ready for some 100° to track for some reason. God I hope this is just a one time thought. xD

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Video Wall

« on: May 21, 2012, 09:35:52 PM »

I don't mind the touch screens. They're at least much more vivid and easy to see than the old video-wall system was.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 21, 2012, 04:13:36 PM »

I agree with what Patrick has stated above. A teacher really can make you like or hate a subject. I've done average and didn't really care for Math until this year. My current teacher, everyone harasses and doesn't respect, but I do. The reason? This teacher has made me love math and want to go to that class each day. I've never been this way, ever.

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General Discussion / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: May 20, 2012, 08:26:42 PM »

Light feat Croydon by Ryan Farish 

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

« on: May 20, 2012, 08:01:28 PM »

76° and Mostly Cloudy. The seabreeze is moving in and is popping some showers. Alberto looks to have minimal effects on our weather, but the off chance for showers/thunderstorms persists through early week. Enjoyed a sunny day until the last few hours, but it was nice after the 7days in the clouds and rain.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Alberto

« on: May 19, 2012, 07:15:15 PM »

Well...that was...quick. Wasn't expecting it to go from bring nothing to a named storm in one day.

This is the same low that has been in my area for the past 7 days. It produced thunderstorms this week that dropped 4" of rain in some areas. It just moved offshore yesterday.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 19, 2012, 03:13:47 PM »

Vivian Brown is on with Erik Fisher now on Weekend View

How is that working out? I've never seen the two together (at least that I can remember). 

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

« on: May 18, 2012, 10:21:41 AM »

68° w/ Showers bubbling around the area.... Another gloomy day today. It's been raining for almost a full 7 days, by the forecast and Sunday, it will have.

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The Game Room / Re: Put the wrong emoticon at the end of the sentence

« on: May 17, 2012, 08:13:10 AM »

I'm ready for school!