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TWC Fan Art / Re: wxgatlin's artwork
« on: July 02, 2011, 08:46:40 PM »
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Programming and Graphics / Re: Studio Upgrade/Revamp
« on: July 02, 2011, 12:16:49 PM »
This is whats going on behind the expert desk.
http://twitpic.com/5evogq
http://twitpic.com/5evogq
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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?
« on: July 02, 2011, 10:16:24 AM »
Sunny 82°. Fog just cleared out. Pressure: 30.13 and rising. 
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The Game Room / Re: What Are You Watching Right Now?
« on: July 02, 2011, 04:23:47 AM »
Ugh, Hate this time of morning when every channel is paid programming. So, turning to TWC now.
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TWC Fan Art / Re: wxgatlin's artwork
« on: July 02, 2011, 04:18:30 AM »
^What Happened was I can't trust people when give them FREE things to do the right thing and say I was the designer and to not use them as their own.
Made this for the website. There are some of my other works that I don't post here on this site. www.theweathercenter.weebly.com
Made this for the website. There are some of my other works that I don't post here on this site. www.theweathercenter.weebly.com
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Programming and Graphics / Re: Studio Upgrade/Revamp
« on: June 29, 2011, 03:03:42 PM »And the title on the top even says "7 DAY FORECAST." That's a fail. If they could at LEAST dedicate their :20 segment to the weekly planner only and then show their fluff everywhere else. And whatever happened to their region-by-region forecasts?About the only time to get something like that is on First Outlook or the Early Weekend shows, that is the only place I've seen them cover weather like they used to. There is some news, but its all weather news in those shows from what I've seen.And no, showing it in the five second forecast updates doesn't count.
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Programming and Graphics / Re: Studio Upgrade/Revamp
« on: June 29, 2011, 01:24:29 AM »It looks there has been some graphics changes recently - mapwise and some fonts.Its really aggrevating when they have those boxes in the way, I also don't like how the map overlays are gradient fills, that makes it hard to tell the temp when you get a blend of two colors that look like another color on the scale.
I still have a lot of trouble with the maps that are "contoured" temperature maps. You slap boxes on for cities during the Planner and it makes it worse.
I like the filled in isotherms - yellow for all 60s, tan for all 50s, royal blue for all 40s
They keep using that thinking it's just dandy, and I am like "what color is Cincinnati?" Orange? Red? Somehere in between?
They'll be focusing on more fluff and less content.
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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Arlene
« on: June 28, 2011, 10:18:00 PM »Well, that might just be their "wishful thinking" for these drought stricken areas.If you're all wondering what happened, aircraft reconnaissance found a closed low-level circulation and estimated surface wind speeds of 35 to 40 mph earlier this afternoon. However, NHC thought the thunderstorm activity was too weak on satellite to classify this system. That activity has increased over the past few hours, so NHC went straight to a tropical storm with the wind speeds from the aircraft data.POPs in SE Texas around Brownsville area are only max 50% in the next 3-5 Days. Too bad they wont get anything "much" out of this.
Arlene will likely be a strong tropical storm when it hits Mexico. Unfortunately, I'm not as optimistic about this storm giving much-needed rain to Texas based on the track I see with the storm staying well to the south.
That is too bad. TWC is being a little too optimistic, then. I got the information from them.
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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Arlene
« on: June 28, 2011, 09:21:14 PM »If you're all wondering what happened, aircraft reconnaissance found a closed low-level circulation and estimated surface wind speeds of 35 to 40 mph earlier this afternoon. However, NHC thought the thunderstorm activity was too weak on satellite to classify this system. That activity has increased over the past few hours, so NHC went straight to a tropical storm with the wind speeds from the aircraft data.POPs in SE Texas around Brownsville area are only max 50% in the next 3-5 Days. Too bad they wont get anything "much" out of this.
Arlene will likely be a strong tropical storm when it hits Mexico. Unfortunately, I'm not as optimistic about this storm giving much-needed rain to Texas based on the track I see with the storm staying well to the south.
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Programming and Graphics / Re: Studio Upgrade/Revamp
« on: June 28, 2011, 01:39:09 PM »
This is great news! I agree, the HD studio looks good enough, but not complaining! Can't wait to see, anyone know how long it will be? 
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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?
« on: June 28, 2011, 01:22:01 PM »
97° Partly Cloudy. My County is under a Severe T-storm warning, but just slightly out of it. BOO!
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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion
« on: June 28, 2011, 12:35:26 PM »That video showed that the middle video wall panel wasn't turned on... I hope it didn't die...again....Running from Jim Cantore
TWC Behind the Scenes
Thanks! I love seeing behind the scenes. You can definitely tell they have to be on the ball when on live television.
It might have just been that they use the middle one for a background when they're sitting @ the main desk and they might not have had a video source fed into it?
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Programming and Graphics / Re: Less Weather Coverage, Terrible Programming
« on: June 27, 2011, 05:56:41 PM »Well, TWC really shouldn't always be the one you count on for weather, although they should cover it. They probably see best that people watch their local weather stations for localized severe coverage.There is a tornado warning just south of St. Louis but TWC is not pre empting the longform. I agree with the earlier posts, they have been very inconsistent with their coverage of severe weather. In a season like this where severe tstorms happen almost every night TWC has really demonstrated how unreliable it has become. The old TWC we loved isn't coming back, so the best option now is local TV or NOAA radio.
TWC doesn't want to "waste time" covering live weather anymore. It is cheaper and more convenient for them to repeat programming, rather than break into the programming and actually cover the severe weather. We might as well get used to it. TWC will only cover severe weather when they feel like it.
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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion
« on: June 27, 2011, 05:23:18 PM »Running from Jim Cantore
TWC Behind the Scenes
Thanks! I love seeing behind the scenes. You can definitely tell they have to be on the ball when on live television.