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Rain is coming down hard in NE Durham. 16mph gust on my hobbyist weather station. Edit: 21mph gust a few minutes later.

90 IMBY, close to RDU.

21mph max gust IMBY, eastern Durham. (Using an Osprey PWS.)

Just another "me too". It's far worse when not logged in, literally every single click.

Still getting them this morning, Safari iOS. I think I currently don't have pop ups blocked because I was testing something. I get a new tab auto loading a .ru site. It's been going on all week. Previous poster mentioned Tapatalk, but I haven't been able to get this site to load in Tapatalk for a while so I assumed it was disabled here. I'll give that another try.

Ha! Interesting point. During Irma's FL landfall I found myself hunting for a local Palm Beach County news affiliate (friends there riding out the storm) and ended up watching WPBF's live feed for quite a while. They were actually doing a really good job tracking tornado sightings, warnings, potential areas of concern, and giving very specific details. (Like, which intersection and what direction a given tornado had been sighted--this was when the east coast of Florida was getting the "bad" side of the storm.) They were really on their game, with relatively minimal hype. Although I suppose it stopped being helpful when everyone lost power.

(Dumb tech nerd question: wouldn't it be desirable to make these instruments extremely rugged, like aircraft black boxes?)

Here's the part where I politely ask people to verify their aftermath photo/video sources and not just trust anything off social media, and then my post gets deleted.

Unless you count Naples.

(I assume they think they have to top the Naples landfall footage?)

My bad. I'm a transplant (although going on 11 years now), but Greensboro still tends to be "that one little town that gets the good stadium rock concerts" to me.

I don't know anything about how television weather networks work, but I assume in edge cases like this they prioritize large viewership metros over anything else. Whatever it takes to keep the most people watching. But maybe I am overly cynical.

Just gonna say I don't think this hobby is entirely healthy for some folks.

I opened the back door in Durham/Southpoint a little while ago and got a blast of *wet* coldish air in the face. So weird. It didn't even feel that cold, although it's supposedly just above 32 around here.

Random time-killing question, do a lot/many of you guys have home weather stations? I always wonder when people are reporting obvs.

Haha, I don't remember that one, must have blanked it out of my memory. But I do have a document I keep for the holidays, for random info from one year to the next (like grocery store hours, what dishes I cooked for Thanksgiving that people ate/didn't eat, shopping lists, etc). When I opened it this year I read at the very top: "STOP FOLLOWING SNOWSTORMS IT JUST MAKES YOU SAD". I don't remember typing that but maybe it was because of this Feb thing you mention.

=D I haven't followed a TON of storms here so what I'm about to say may be gibberish, but it feels like there are more areas in play for this event than usual, so there is a wider range of IMBY requests from town names I don't recognize many states away.

I'm a non-met layman snow weenie lurker, and even I'm getting tired of the IMBY forecast requests.

(Word of the day: "concerned")

Newb question: If this NW trend is very predictable by humans, why isn't it predictable by models?

Thanks for responses. I've mentioned it before, but even in my ignorance, the people who only post negative posts stand out just as much as the people who only post positive ones, and I tend to be more invested in the ones who are clearly taking a more rounded approach. Not that anyone cares what I'm invested in, I'm just always interested in how the cultures of different message board forums work. (Although this is literally the only one I'm on where I have nothing to contribute other than random meta commentary, or "yep no power near Southpoint mall" during Matthew.) (P.s., mackerel_sky, I particularly like the way you're always cheerful even when it's bad news, and I'm glad the tornado didn't cause you major problems.) (Oh, and man, meteorology hobby culture is such a crazy mix of science and superstition! It reminds me of the brief time I spent on some vegas gambling forums! I totally understand why it's like that, especially in this area. I've seen the snow shield in action.) Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Legit question from the uninformed, does the "BL temps suck!" guy have a valid point? I can't tell (due to met ignorance) but my long-honed message board spidey sense says troll? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

No one asked me, but I loved it. For western Triangle peeps, tomorrow (Thu) looks to be the last night it's playing at the Silverspot. Going for an encore.

(The shifting meta-commentary is almost as amusing as the shifting primary convo.)

Thanks guys. I appreciate the answers and I'll hush back up now. (I gotta quit this hobby--don't even have the technical foundation, so the ups and downs suck but are also often obfuscated due to my lack of knowledge. It's a unique torture!)