Ju-ply 2026 Obs and Disco - Kicking it off with heat, humidity, and ... severe?

[Great Snow 1717]

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

What do dumb people that you referring to on here do ?

....sorry but I'm not smart enough to answer your question...

[NoCORH4L]

30 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

Smart people use rain barrels to collect water for their gardens..

Not a good idea for vegetable gardens

[CoastalWx]

Weather is just sexier now to show on the news because we are able to catch raw and captivating video like never before. Everyone has a smart phone and can send it to a news network.

I will say that when the national news shows clips of severe weather as a headline, you'd think the weather has gone wild, but to me it looks like what summer weather brings lol. But to Jane and John Doe it might not. But that's just how it is. Footage of severe weather captivates people.

[Great Snow 1717]

22 minutes ago, NoCORH4L said:

Not a good idea for vegetable gardens

It works well for flower gardens and trees/shrubs....the best thing to do is to clean the rain barrel prior to the first use of the season and then every 2-3 weeks during the season.

[weatherwiz]

14 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Weather is just sexier now to show on the news because we are able to catch raw and captivating video like never before. Everyone has a smart phone and can send it to a news network.

I will say that when the national news shows clips of severe weather as a headline, you'd think the weather has gone wild, but to me it looks like what summer weather brings lol. But to Jane and John Doe it might not. But that's just how it is. Footage of severe weather captivates people.

the headlines with severe weather are a joke. "Tens of thousands under the gun for severe weather". CNN and NY Post loves to do this. Then you have clowns like Ryan Hall and Max Velocity who have to use that headline and that have their stupid looking face making a stupid reaction in their thumbnails. 

[Great Snow 1717]

Just now, weatherwiz said:

the headlines with severe weather are a joke. "Tens of thousands under the gun for severe weather". CNN and NY Post loves to do this. Then you have clowns like Ryan Hall and Max Velocity who have to use that headline and that have their stupid looking face making a stupid reaction in their thumbnails. 

It is all about getting people to watch and/or page hits to generate advertising dollars.

People are attracted to those types of headlines....if they said something like "it's going to be  a typical July day in the east"...their  audience would be lower..

It is always best to ignore the hype in weather and sports...

[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

It is all about getting people to watch and/or page hits to generate advertising dollars.

People are attracted to those types of headlines....if they said something like "it's going to be  a typical July day in the east"...their  audience would be lower..

It is always best to ignore the hype in weather and sports...

Wish this concept was more easily grasp by the population 

[powderfreak]

2 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Wish this concept was more easily grasp by the population 

Add politics to that, probably more so than sports and weather.

People do like to be entertained though.

[powderfreak]

29 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Weather is just sexier now to show on the news because we are able to catch raw and captivating video like never before. Everyone has a smart phone and can send it to a news network.

I will say that when the national news shows clips of severe weather as a headline, you'd think the weather has gone wild, but to me it looks like what summer weather brings lol. But to Jane and John Doe it might not. But that's just how it is. Footage of severe weather captivates people.

This.  We can blame hype but the amount of video easily available now is something never seen before.

It’s the same with any outrageous behavior captured on film.  There have always been Karens… since the dawn of time… but now you see video of every single person doing something obnoxious or dumb.  Dumb people making bad decisions have always existed, too.  You just never saw it.

I don’t think people understand the gravity and how our perception has changed on certain things since every human holds an HD camera in their pocket.

[Great Snow 1717]

1 minute ago, weatherwiz said:

Wish this concept was more easily grasp by the population 

There have been numerous psychological studies done on what works to attract viewers/readers..I ve participated in several focus groups on advertising. Ive always been amazed about what prompted some people to react to the ads/commercials....

[weatherwiz]

3 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

There have been numerous psychological studies done on what works to attract viewers/readers..I ve participated in several focus groups on advertising. Ive always been amazed about what prompted some people to react to the ads/commercials....

I can certainly imagine lol. Its interesting how the human brain works

[Great Snow 1717]

7 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I can certainly imagine lol. Its interesting how the human brain works

....the attention spans of some people shall we say are lacking? Lol

[WxWatcher007]

1 hour ago, Layman said:

I saw this posted online and it was presented as real but I didn't verify it.  I don't doubt it however and I believe this is along the lines of what @vortex95 is talking about with regard to hype.  Consider if this bar chart went all the way to zero and those gaps between numbers remained the same - it would challenge the Burj Khalifa!

Yeah I mean that’s  who quality controlled that!

46 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Weather is just sexier now to show on the news because we are able to catch raw and captivating video like never before. Everyone has a smart phone and can send it to a news network.

I will say that when the national news shows clips of severe weather as a headline, you'd think the weather has gone wild, but to me it looks like what summer weather brings lol. But to Jane and John Doe it might not. But that's just how it is. Footage of severe weather captivates people.

Indeed it does. 

18 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Add politics to that, probably more so than sports and weather.

People do like to be entertained though.

A whole can of worms that’s probably human nature pushed to the extreme by proliferation of social media and algorithms. 

1 minute ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

....the attention spans of some people shall we say are lacking? Lol

Only bound to get worse, unfortunately, and many of us are guilty of it as we rocket through the digital age.