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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.

Gloria was the first hyped weather event in the nation's history.  The hype factor continues to increase because cable news ratings go through the roof during major weather events.  Also, local tv news is a declining business but when big weather events happen local tv news returns to its 1980s era glory days when local news was dominant.

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.

Correct me if wrong but during this horrendous hurricane season this will be the first daylight LF? All others were at night?

Unless you count Naples.

TWC seriously sent a reporter to San Juan, PR. Also one of their better reporters, Paul Goodloe. Dumb move by TWC.

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

10 minutes ago, superjames1992 said:

The Greensboro/High Point /Winston-Salem CSA isn't all that much smaller than the Raleigh or Charlotte CSAs, though (2.5 vs 2.1 vs 1.7 million).

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.  

12 minutes ago, magpiemaniac said:

TWC has Reynolds Wolf and Scott Newell in Raleigh and Mike Seidel in Charlotte. Great job, guys!    Greensboro?  Where's that?  Our weather pros have never heard of it.  Haha!  Fools.

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 am stunned...I really never considered us to get this much rain, or really any rain.  I have big puddles everywhere.  Nothing had this.  Tracking snow sucks, LOL.

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. 

3 minutes ago, gwlee7 said:

Yep.  And, I remember you from last year's Feb dud.  We could have used an Arkham on this board last year for that cluster for sure. 

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.

 

3 minutes ago, gwlee7 said:

Ditto:  Even with the same number of posts

=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.)


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It's hilarious how offended Brick gets when anyone brings up possible temp issues or precip issues or track issues.

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?


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1 hour ago, Cold Rain said:

Yes indeed.  Those are my two favorites.  Did you like Rogue One?

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.

26 minutes ago, magpiemaniac said:

I'm confident that we might get 1"-2" out of this. Not quite sold yet that we can get more that 4".

 

Current trend:

"I really like the GFS right now. It's been very consistent. I've always been a fan of it," says the guy from Atlanta.  "The Euro has been so consistent. Such a great model. I expect it to verify," says the guy from Newport News.

As if any of us have a clue.

 

(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!)