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    November Banter 2023

    in Mid Atlantic

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    1 hour ago, North Balti Zen said:

    It wouldn't be as bad as it is in the long range thread if people would stop trolling. Control maps from 1100 hours out of context etc.  Drive by comments with literally nothing to add other than to complain.  the ratio of shit posts to quality posts is way out of whack. I would almost lock that thread so that only about six posters could post in it.  Or maybe see if randy will allow the mods to nuke the trolling shit straight to hell, that would help too. 

     

    It also didn't help that mt psu made everyone care about his backyard for early snowfall and ratcheted up the anxiety level. 

     

     

    but we must care about him getting his first inch of snow! 

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    November Banter 2023

    in Mid Atlantic

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    27 minutes ago, mattie g said:

    Was just poking around LWX yearly snow totals and was shocked (and not shocked) to see that Dulles got ~20" more than DCA in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. Threw BWI in the below for the whole picture (apologies for the formatting). I went back and found my post from late March 2014 that said I reached 50" on the year IMBY. Reading through that 2013-2014 snow totals thread was fun...lots of amazing totals!

      DCA IAD BWI
    2013-2014 32.0 52.8 39.0
    2014-2015 18.3 36.9 28.7

     

    was my first winter up north, finished with 70" 

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    MD WxAware - spotters needed

    in Mid Atlantic

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    3 hours ago, Kmlwx said:

    It may be worth telling Ashley (I can as well) that Alan Henney (a local news/crime follower) and I run a Zello group dedicated to local breaking news and crime (as it happens essentially). It's much more focused on police/fire - but there could be some crossover there. We don't do any forwarding to authorities that much - but many of the members that monitor the channel are local reporters (freelance or pro) and many have some connection to local public safety. We have several hundred "members" - the channel is PW protected as well to prevent "riff raff" from joining. 

    I don't think we would want to merge the groups of course - but it may be a way to coordinate or work together. 

    Feel free to reach out to her. She’s running it, I just offered to help get the word out to get some people interested in the effort. 

    MD WxAware - spotters needed

    in Mid Atlantic

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    More from Ashley:

    I have a PGFD group full of firefighters and enthusiasts (scanner nerds) who will put in interesting or big calls in the chat. Usually it starts with a preliminary dispatch (not vetted as it is reported by public) followed but confirmation by crews, social media, or news,. So the goal is a place to do the same - or even do a call out and ask for reports for big events.

    MD WxAware - spotters needed

    in Mid Atlantic

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    3 hours ago, Kmlwx said:

    Will they QC the reports? I can only imagine what this will lead to if a "friend of a friend" messages that they see a "tornado" and somebody reposts that....90% chance it's scud or other cloud phenomenon. 

    Yes. All reports need to be taken as "unverified" until confirmed. On my end, I will not take action before a verification. When the group is up and ready and I open it up to other EMs - they will be trained to do the same. I do think we should make group rules about that. Feel free to share info like that but people need to say the source, especially if it is second hand. 

    MD WxAware - spotters needed

    in Mid Atlantic

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    3 hours ago, Rhino16 said:

    Is this to help get people involved in the warning verification process, so that it makes the NWS’ work a bit easier?

    It is not at this time. Folks still need to pass info on to NWS LWX (or correct office) via the mode they request. We might be able to provide that in the future - but I haven't been able to get LWX as receptive to the VOST concept as other offices I've worked with previously. Perhaps with time!

    MD WxAware - spotters needed

    in Mid Atlantic

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    4 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

    I’m interested but how is it different than normal spotter reports to LWX?

    This is a group to share info amongst each other for our own situational awareness. More of an awareness group of what weather is occurring. Of course, if someone shares a damage report or a report that should be passed on to Sterling, folks are encouraged to still pass that on to LWX the same way they would without the group. This group just allows folks to share what weather is occurring in the state and also will help EMs informally have an idea of what is going on. Folks using it (me or other EMs) will still vet the info before we use it. Similar to what we do with general public reports to dispatch or on social media.

    November Banter 2023

    in Mid Atlantic

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    1 hour ago, 09-10 analogy said:

    Sounds great, do you know if they will be posting a summary of proceedings?Can anyone attend, if they hold it next year?

    I am not sure if they will have a summary, here is their website: https://www.midatlsevere.com/

    It is open to the public, tickets were reasonably priced. They will have it next year, trying to align it with AMS Severe Conference that is happening in VA Beach at the end of October, so their thought is to hold the event in Richmond following that AMS Conference nearby. I think October 26th 2024 was the date I saw, but that could change. 

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