mappy

so why am i thanking you?

are you going to make it snow for me?

My favorite day of the year! And could become even more awesome this year

I needed some laughs and this thread was full of them. FISH WITH ARMS!!!!!!!

We are a bunch of weenies

Since when are you a professional in geology?

Agreed, trolling in other subforums is not allowed.

Thats the only way I see it. There is constructive criticism to improve things and then there is simply throwing an organization under the bus to benefit yourself and your private weather business.

Gotta profit off a tragedy somehow

Ian didn't give me enough notice to make that,happen

The Cal Ripken story was on the news last night up here in MD and on the radio this morning http://www.wbal.com/article/88925/3/template-story/Ripken-Helping-Tornado-Victims

Those people are incredibly lucky

The easiest way for me to understand cap was to think of the atmosphere as a pot with a lid on it. The lid being the cap that needs to come off before any storms can develop and grow in size.

From wiki, though I am sure a met could explain for you further if needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_available_potential_energy

I guess the easiest way would be to create a thread for red taggers to post in where they can post images of model runs with descriptions of what it is showing. Once the initial "show and tell" is over with, people could ask questions if they don't understand what the met was saying. Though, it could be time consuming for an already busy met. What Adam did for me was he would find an hour on the model run, have me open the four-panel images and describe what it was doing and how to see the differences between a current run and the previous run. It was really helpful.

No one called you stupid...

This thread is great - something I would love to see in the future are more in depth explanations of threats and all the pieces involved so those of us who don't fully grasp all the working parts are able to look at a model and figure out what is going on. am19psu was doing that for me last week with the snow threat, he broke it down for me piece by piece, and after a few model runs I was able to see the different players myself.

I want a repeat

Thank you! Some of the guests drove six hours in the snow from the eastern shore to Frederick (where we got married). They were determined to get there! Sadly, we did have about 30 people not be able to make it. But I wouldn't change a thing.

My favorite day ever!

Cool article from the Baltimore Sun about the earthquake... in geology terms http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-quake-timeline-20110823,0,1581033.story I'd also like to note that my college advisor, GIS professor and eventually the guy who hired me and introduced me to my husband... was quoted in the article.

Randy, at least you were smart and left your building. I watched my coworkers scream and run out of the office while I sat in my cube saying "awesome"

I know, I'm sorry. But if it does happen again, I can make more pretty maps

No, I'm sorry... That already happened and may not happen again.

I didn't tell you? I paint the future