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SpotTheCat wrote:torax wrote:WCCO's radar is in my opinion the best in the twin cities
For just radar, look at weather.com for their new beta radar map. They stitch many radar stations together to get a nice image of the entire country.
Welch wrote:I too share your love for the weather. When there is a heavy rain storm, Im all for it, thunder, lightning... HELL YA! Only problem is that I grew up in Tampa Florida where weather was an everyday thing... and I mean that as in Thunderstorms, Hurricanes, all sorts of stuff. Now I live in Alaska, and weather here is boring. Only every now and then do we get some very cool weather like a REAL blizzard. I hate it when people are like "Oh no, a blizzard is coming.... 3 inches in 4 hours. ohhh whatever will we do" Screw that, I want the 8-12 inches in a matter of 3-4 hours! The really hardcore stuff that has power going out where your in the pitch black lighting candles... thats the stuff I love
As for checking the weather, I tend not to do that. My dad works as an Air Traffic Controller, he is practically a walking weather machine. Not to mention you can easily become "In-Tune" with the natural machine we call weather by having experienced it over the years. You can literally smell snow coming, rain... and even lightning from your sensory perception.
Welch wrote:Only every now and then do we get some very cool weather like a REAL blizzard. I hate it when people are like "Oh no, a blizzard is coming.... 3 inches in 4 hours. ohhh whatever will we do" Screw that, I want the 8-12 inches in a matter of 3-4 hours! The really hardcore stuff that has power going out where your in the pitch black lighting candles... thats the stuff I love
As for checking the weather, I tend not to do that. You can literally smell snow coming, rain... and even lightning from your sensory perception.
liquidsquid wrote:Hmm... interesting. The last I heard, the surviving members of the Weather Underground were university professors. Go figure...I think that was the idea, but I am not sure. I think the guys running the site are from those days as well.
liquidsquid wrote:Yeah, http://www.weatherunderground.com rules. The Weather Channel and all it stands for can go rot. They have become more media and making money and sensationalizing things than just giving the weather.-LS
red0510 wrote:liquidsquid wrote:Yeah, http://www.weatherunderground.com rules. The Weather Channel and all it stands for can go rot. They have become more media and making money and sensationalizing things than just giving the weather.-LS
Totally agree with you here, both about WU and TWC. I never visit weather.com anymore. Their page takes so damn long to load with the ads and the "Look! It's our TWC Golf Game!!!" (on a whim, I just fired up the site...over 10 seconds to load. Pffft...)
Ozenmacher wrote:For those of you who like cool satellite imagery...
here is a neat look at a line of supercells which initiated right near me in Grand Forks, ND yesterday night. One of the supercells developed a tornado which destroyed a town in ND.
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/g12.2007239.0015_PIR_vis.jpg?9281744