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

[weatherwiz]

7 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

It's funny that people think this is something nefarious.

The issue is that the weather graphics vendor most stations use (your former employer) have an almost impossible to figure out UI when it comes to building bar graphs and charts. TBH, it's why I don't show them very often. Obviously it shouldn't have been used but we're generally using horribly outdated equipment and graphics systems that are generally awful all around.

At WestConn we still had to use PowerPoint for our broadcasts because the school refused to pay for WSI and didn't care how important it was. I'm pretty sure they still use PowerPoint to this day. 

[CoastalWx]

Yeah when I saw that graphic, I first thought something went wrong lol. I didn't think it was to hype something up or anything. 

[kdxken]

Surprised they didn't up the severity.

[dendrite]

Yeah looks more dumb than malintent.

[CoastalWx]

NO change in drought where 3-6" of rain fell. Those maps should have been DOGE'd.

[dendrite]

I guess in their defense this is valid 8am Tuesday and there may not have been much river and stream response yet, but man...idk what they expect.

[Cyclone-68]

I want a Met to incorporate the word “hellacious” when doing their forecast 

[CoastalWx]

16 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I guess in their defense this is valid 8am Tuesday and there may not have been much river and stream response yet, but man...idk what they expect.

OK I'll give them that, but then the person showing this should probably not even show this at all. At least wait a week. This should be common sense, I'm sure the public comments have laugh emojis and condescending remarks since they are well aware of the copious amounts of rain SNE got overall.

I can't tell you how many idiots out there claim this is govt manipulation and trying to control our water usage. This doesn't help.

[Chrisrotary12]

Kind of hot out. Bring back 82 with low dews.

[CoastalWx]

Yeah with little wind, it's a hot one. I have 92.