powderfreak

Yeah I agree with that too. For sure, they pick an Avenue and generally stay in that lane. Once they get a viewership they don’t want to alienate them, but I still think that’s largely any company. Once you get a customer, you don’t want to piss that customer off (with a story that goes against their politics). Now the real muck up is when political parties start funding media channels… it has to be happening even in obscure ways.

I mean this is literally what they teach you in Website Marketing 101 in college. I've done enough of it with even ski resort websites. It is 110% all about clicks and click through rate. It's about exploiting emotions of humans (well, really that's what marketing is in general). What emotion am I going to pry on to get you to do an action that will make business xyz money? How do I get you here? How do I get you to stay here? Those two questions are the only questions that matter when it comes to business websites. It's nothing more, nothing less. CNN, Foxnews, MSNBC, LA Times, NY Times, Boston Globe, whatever. If people do not click on it, it will not be there for long. But as soon as you click on an article, you are giving that article a "vote" of yes this is what I want. Humans vote with their mouse pads or their touch screens. They don't care if you agree or disagree with the article, that's irrelevant. It's all about the click.

IMO it’s solely revenue, ads and clicks. That’s how business websites work. They’d dump it all tomorrow if their advertisers started seeing drastic drops in clicks on those stories. But I guess to your point it’s the same thing, they need to keep you engaged. They won’t pick a path, they need you on the hook, swimming around. Check back every day for updates! With news print prior, you purchased the whole paper so it didn’t really matter once past the front page. Advertisers would get seen because once you got the newspaper you’d flip through it. Online they may only get one shot at you before you close the window or click back on AMWX. So they have algorithms that will tell them exactly what story they need you to see and then what links they want to display (probably the next top 5 clicked on news stories in the past half hour) to get you to stay on their website. Website retention is an absolute beast… it’s extremely hard to get you to stick around for a second click most of the time. They aren’t fukking around with this stuff… it’s not news it’s pure business.

Because we keep clicking on it and sharing it. Every single click increases the chances of another one of those stories. Everyone needs to go to every news site out there and click on the stories that are like “Grandmother gives away puppies to orphanage.”

Partly sunny day up here in the desert. Not sure we even had much in the way of clouds, much less measurable precip. MVL had a couple FEW obs amid CLR overnight.

Looks like SVT towards Mt Snow is getting smoked. Already 1-2” in the Albany area with 2-4” west/southwest of there towards BGM.

Like having a 4-week period with 100+ inches of snowfall, mixed in with some frustration. It all comes at once .

Haha you guys do ask for copious rain every summer. Been several summers in a row where it seems the overall tenor of the discussion is "bring rain...please more rain...maybe we have a shot at some downpours coming up." Or the "any rain this summer has been convective, it doesn't even get to soak in. Hit or miss rain sucks." Mother Nature loves her averages, the water was bound to come. Memories of those 10-15" water months that seemed to happen from time to time in New England from like 2000 through 2014 occasionally for different areas. Another dry day up here of course. Sunday Farmers Market had hundreds of people it seemed and the Rec Path out front seemed like I-93 in Mass with bikes. Folks seem to enjoy the dry when on vaca.

Still crazy to me how many big precip events there have been starting with Memorial Day weekend. You can go a summer without seeing a short term prog with that much water, this is like a weekly occurrence this summer.

Ha yeah, thanks for letting me play, peace out. Time to enjoy life with that money.

You’re right, never thought of it that way in the summer but it is the opposite of winter… jet lifting north with time in summer instead of going south with time in winter. Hadley keeps flexing we’ll get rain late month and August before it heads back south?

Surgical precision from here to Tamarack. But it is absolutely crazy how every rainer is big QPF. Sometimes it's like well hopefully we can get a swath of like a half inch of water or so. This year it's like no, the max zone will be inches of rain every single time.

It’s great that it’s percolated down to the south coast too… dews in the 50s Its 53F here as I’m nodding off.

It’s coming for us at some point. No doubt.

I hate the Yankees with a passion, but that game tonight on national television was impressive. Gerrit Cole pitched his ass off. A 1-0 win against the best lineup in the AL, the Astros, in a complete game shut piece? Good baseball game. Need to tip your cap when its deserved.

Looks like a classic coastal storm spread, ha. Coastal plain gets smoked. Sharp drop off into the mountains.

What a summer day out there.... warm, absolutely zero humidity, breeze, no bugs and wall-to-wall sunshine from New York to Quebec to New Hampshire. From the other reports here, it seems like it was a winner from the Atlantic to the mountains and everywhere in between.

High of 79F and afternoon dew got down to 45! Been a while since we’ve felt mid-40s dews on a warm sunny day. Clear skies tonight and with the afternoon dews I bet we get 40s for a min. That shouldn’t be noteworthy but these days in the growing Hadley Cell it is. We still water up here in the desert. Man is amazing for inventing this circular thing with forced water through it. We can put humans on the moon and bring water to where it needs to be.

I’ll be down in the swamp there next week. Heading down Monday evening I think. Hoping it’s nice enough to get a couple rounds of golf in with the old man.

Full sun. 75/52. Dry air up here in the NNE desert. Bottle this up, heading towards 10/10 status if we can hit 80F with these dews.

Chamber of Commerce. Low of 51F, now CLR skis and 68/53. Beauty. Not a cloud in the sky, dry. Great day to wander the mountains then play some golf.

That’s more rain in 24 hours than we’ve had in a month I think. Awesome anti-Stein. Enough water to last through next summer. You knew it was coming after a couple dry summers. We don’t do drought well.

Where is this in E.CT? Can you float it in a tube? Is it a rafting spot? A 3-hour float sounds pretty sweet. Going to have to google some images of this place.

Good example of why it’s hard to run long term drought in New England.

It’s going to eat us all after frying us.