BillT

the wishcasting about the sea ice was hilarious, so many saying lowest ice ever this year were so wrong and silent for weeks now.......

ty for the answer so it is 2 ways of expressing the SAME amount of ice that shows a very different picture, of the SAME amount of ice.....

how would the area and extent of a baseball diamond differ?    isnt the extent of the field also its area expressed in square meters? how far something extends is part of its AREA of coverage isnt it?

Just now, thess said:

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

have one here in empire alabama.....34.3 and dew point of 25.1...most important is the rising barometer stopped at 29.90 and dropped quickly to 29.84.......

incredible stuff......the storm hasnt even started yet in areas where some are calling predictions winners?   

i thought "imby" questions were forbidden during storms? i ask because in the models thread well over half of the posts are pure IMBY.......

19 minutes ago, Cold Rain said:

They're fun to see.

i agree they get much talk going and are "fun" but they are not science and they are attempting to do the impossible......even in an area predicted to get 6 to 8 inches there will be less than 6 and more than 8 in that area........

posting accumulation maps at this time is simply silly, this is like trying to predict to within tenths of an inch how much rain a certain area will get in a coming summer storm 2 days in advance.....CANT be done.

the real world water vapor loop shows the interaction among a few impulses off the coast of oregon/northern cal right now.......also you can see the moisture being thrown into the back edge of the cold surface air in the texas panhandle in the next couple of hours.

18 minutes ago, J.C. said:

How far out did the models pick up the 93 superstorm?

the first mention of it i saw was on the Sunday before it hit on friday.....24 hours out the forecasts werent calling for anything special at all.

4 minutes ago, Lookout said:

it's funny that these days local stations/mets can no longer totally ignore threats in the long range because of social media. Which already has caused one of the local mets in atlanta to acknowledging the possible threat a little while ago.  But i had to laugh when she said knew people would be seeing all kinds of scary maps from "dubious sources"....like um..actual model progs? I like her, she's a good met (joanne feldman) but that was a bit much. 

this is something i dont understand.....a snow event would impact a very wide area and everybody that lives there yet they hesitate to even mention snow 3 or 4 days out, BUT a potential tornado event if it verifies only impacts a very small portion of the area and most of the people in the area have no impact, but they will harp on them a week in advance.

ty for the response......i have a weather station here in an area not well covered and mostly will post observations during actual events.....having been here for over 13 years now,and having seen storms that could not possibly miss here do exactly that i do KNOW getting snow around here is very rare.....i dont attempt to make forecasts because of understanding how difficult it is and dont want to give the effort in something i consider to be an exercise in futility....but DO thank those taking that time and making their attempts

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i also appreciate this forum but honestly am afraid to make any posts......because in the other forum it seems newbies really get jumped on for daring to comment and i am seeing a good bit of the same stuff here lately........NOBODY knows the future yet is seems far too many think they can predict the weather......i also note it is only a few that do it, but in the other forum it seems the MODS are among that few....hopefully this will become a decent location for folks seeking info and offering opinion.