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November Discobs 2025


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10 minutes ago, frd said:

Another day of clouds here. The forecast was for mostly sunny. But, so far 90 % of this day has been mostly cloudy. A theme the last 10 months. 

Just got through a cloud spoke here from the typical GL low, but it's gotten sunny again.  The afternoon is looking prime:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=ne&band=02&length=12

OTOH, New York State is cloudy...because it usually is.  They're definitely on the wrong side of the Great Lakes with the exception of LES which would probably get played out after a while.

 

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3 minutes ago, LongRanger said:

Something I'm not observing are humans on the Accuweather TV Channel. Lately whenever I've tuned in it's been just automated graphics, even during morning and evening prime time.

Live weathercasters are pretty much obsolete at this point outside of extreme events which the news stations just cover anyway.   Everybody can look at their phone for decent real-time forecasts whenever and wherever they want nowadays.  

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32 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Live weathercasters are pretty much obsolete at this point outside of extreme events which the news stations just cover anyway.   Everybody can look at their phone for decent real-time forecasts whenever and wherever they want nowadays.  

Strongly disagree. Apps and websites featuring questionable sourced weather information abound. Local, trusted media and meteorologists are needed now more than ever. 

Take Windows 11 for example. I get push notifications for Rockville, MD for tomorrow on my work laptop that it's going to be a high of 4° degrees tomorrow. How is this even remotely accurate?

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12 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Strongly disagree. Apps and websites featuring questionable sourced weather information abound. Local, trusted media and meteorologists are needed now more than ever. 

Take Windows 11 for example. I get push notifications for Rockville, MD for tomorrow on my work laptop that it's going to be a high of 4° degrees tomorrow. How is this even remotely accurate?

That's clearly some sort of anomalous error and not representative of normal.  Most people I know IRL just use their apple weather app when they check the weather, they're not going to AccuWeather.com much less listening to the local news or looking at models.  I can't think of the last time any person has ever talked to me about the weather forecast they saw on TV.  

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13 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Strongly disagree. Apps and websites featuring questionable sourced weather information abound. Local, trusted media and meteorologists are needed now more than ever. 

Take Windows 11 for example. I get push notifications for Rockville, MD for tomorrow on my work laptop that it's going to be a high of 4° degrees tomorrow. How is this even remotely accurate?

As someone with way too much insight in how these crappy things work, can you click on the weather and bring up the larger notification panel? See what city it is forecasting for. If you are using a VPN or your ISP gives you an IP that is registered somewhere else, the geolocation stuff isn't smart enough to figure it out.

I also don't think EC is getting an inch of rain, but they really cover their bases with "up to". NWS has me .2-.5".

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1 hour ago, IronTy said:

That's clearly some sort of anomalous error and not representative of normal.  Most people I know IRL just use their apple weather app when they check the weather, they're not going to AccuWeather.com much less listening to the local news or looking at models.  I can't think of the last time any person has ever talked to me about the weather forecast they saw on TV.  

I see the same thing.  Most of my buddies simply rely on their weather app, and will be standing in the pouring rain with me insisting there is a zero percent chance of rain...

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