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Post by RyanD on May 31, 2018 18:39:30 GMT -6
Surprised that cell west of Viburnum doesn't have a tornado warning. Looks like some good rotation.
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Post by RyanD on May 2, 2018 18:41:40 GMT -6
Is tomorrow looking like a washout? My 6 year old is going on a field trip to Camp Wartburg. That's what I'm wondering as well. My daughter is also in Kindergarten and hoping to go tomorrow. I went a couple years ago with my oldest and it was fun. I think they had to reschedule it last year which is not a big deal since it is just outside of town.
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Post by RyanD on Apr 25, 2018 17:53:38 GMT -6
Hopefully we can get some of the Fox 2 Mets and talent on KDNL because PlayStation Vue dropped ch. 2 a few months ago ago but added 5 and 30 so the only local stations I don't get live are 2, 9 & 11. I was upset when Vue dropped 2 but we are saving nearly a $1k a year over Direct TV with nearly the same channels and Vue also gives us HBO and Showtime with our package, limitless cloud DVR and on-demand services and can stream to 5 devices simultaneously for $75 a month. Direct TV with DVR on 4 tv's was $150 a month. My guess is that both KTVI and KDNL will be available eventually because it is the parent company of KDNL that is buying us...so my guess (totally a guess) is that KTVI will be brought into the same agreements as KDNL for the purposes of things like that. That would be great because when Vue dropped Fox 2 due to contractual agreements with all the affiliates owned by the parent company it was the first time this had happened with a live internet streaming tv channel. I believe all tv will be streaming or OTA with satellite's days numbered.
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Post by RyanD on Apr 25, 2018 11:52:51 GMT -6
Hopefully we can get some of the Fox 2 Mets and talent on KDNL because PlayStation Vue dropped ch. 2 a few months ago ago but added 5 and 30 so the only local stations I don't get live are 2, 9 & 11. I was upset when Vue dropped 2 but we are saving nearly a $1k a year over Direct TV with nearly the same channels and Vue also gives us HBO and Showtime with our package, limitless cloud DVR and on-demand services and can stream to 5 devices simultaneously for $75 a month. Direct TV with DVR on 4 tv's was $150 a month.
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Post by RyanD on Apr 7, 2018 18:37:16 GMT -6
Tornado warning in Idaho. Not everyday you see that.
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Post by RyanD on Apr 5, 2018 12:15:36 GMT -6
If it's any consolation the NWS must be frustrated to. The metro had 80% odds of snow in the point forecast. And they were advertising 2-3" for the metro and 3-4" along US-50. Yeah, I feel sorry for all the mets. This is painful to watch. I'm glad I didn't say much to anyone about this potential system though my wife was just asking me (prior to looking at the forum today) when it would start Friday. Going to let her know now that there's no concerns anymore. She has to drive in to work at 6am Saturday.
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Post by RyanD on Apr 3, 2018 23:03:26 GMT -6
In the 1997 April snow, I left Red Bud and drove south on a snowpacked Rt 3 but by the time I got to Carbondale they had almost nothing.
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Post by RyanD on Apr 3, 2018 22:33:14 GMT -6
We had a big snow by April terms here in Waterloo in 2011 I believe. It was around 4" and fell in the morning and was all melted by midday. I recall it well because we had to drive in it to Columbia IL to visit my friend who's wife just gave birth to their first child. I seem to recall another April snow in maybe 2013 that also had thunder though I never saw the lightning. April snows are typically very rare here. I remember the 1997 snow very well because it was not forecast (can thank evap cooling for that one) and I was heading to SIUC that morning and was putting my books into my car and there was a huge flash of lightning so it startled me so badly that I hit my head of the roof of the car trying to look up. My wife's recently deceased grandma often talked of a huge April snow that she got stuck in on the way to work on the 70's. I bet it was the '71 storm which oddly enough was 6 months before I was born. Of the few times I've seen thundersnow, all occurred in April except '82 which I didn't actually see but heard during the "blizzard".
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Post by RyanD on Apr 2, 2018 18:18:00 GMT -6
Thunder ave lightning here. That was fast.
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Post by RyanD on Apr 1, 2018 18:33:24 GMT -6
I'm 46 and have only witnessed thundersnow 2-3 times. All were in April except 1982 but when that happened I was likely asleep but everyone at my parents saw the lightning bolt during the "blizzard" of '82.
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Post by RyanD on Apr 1, 2018 18:30:36 GMT -6
I think I heard thunder once but it may have been my daughter jumping. Sleet here but not amounting to much. Thought I would have seen some snow though. Kinda bummed.
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Post by RyanD on Apr 1, 2018 16:05:15 GMT -6
Nothing but rain in Waterloo and 33F
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Post by RyanD on Apr 1, 2018 12:15:04 GMT -6
Severe t-storm warning just east of Springfield Mo. M-ping reports show 1/2" hail.
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Post by RyanD on Oct 29, 2014 16:48:38 GMT -6
I completely agree with John Coleman. The man-made AGW is pure bunk. Here's a synopsis from his radio appearance last night. It's amazing anyone is gullible enough to believe what politicians or "scientists" with agendas say. It's all about the money. Csnavywx, I'd love for you to provide non-biased proof that what he is "spouting" has been debunked. I know you are very intelligent but I'm shocked you think he's wrong. I believe that most meteorologist think AGW is mostly a bunk science but that's just a feeling. I've seen no survey to confirm or deny this so by no means I'm I saying it's a fact. The hard part with proving or debunking anything is finding a reliable non-biased source. The UN committee and White House are not reliable sources IMO.
"Retired TV weatherman John Coleman, who studied and reported the weather for decades, and co-founded The Weather Channel, shared his assertion that man-made climate change is no longer scientifically credible. He recently presented this view at a UCLA forum on climate change, and in an open letter attacking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which got picked up by international media (see related article). The issue became politicized after Al Gore helped promote the idea of scientist Dr. Roger Revelle that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas causing climate change.
Climate change is natural and constantly occurring and is not affected by the actions of mankind, Coleman stated. We've had a half dozen dramatic climate shifts between ice ages and interglacial periods. Just 15,000 years ago there was a huge ice sheet covering parts of North America which was naturally caused, and then it was warmed up by natural causes and began melting, he noted, adding that the Earth is always varied in its climate. While carbon dioxide has increased in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels, it's still less than ½ of 1% of the total atmospheric carbon dioxide, and this increase causes insignificant warming if any, he commented. The Earth is actually 20% greener than it was, and there's been no scientific validation that the increase in CO2 is bringing about a climate crisis, he added."
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Post by RyanD on Feb 13, 2014 23:16:45 GMT -6
I believe I was the first to mention I thought this winter would be more like '76/77 but I didn't think it'd be as cold as that winter. Maybe Phil beat me to it though but I never saw him mention it until after x-mas. Pretty hard to match that magnitude of cold from '76/77 but I did think we could match those kind of snow totals and have more bitter cold unlike we've seen around here in a very long time. I'm sure I posted that in late Nov. I was told it was unlikely because those winters had a very negative AO but this winter the AO has gone negative much more than predicted and the -EPO has been our real savior. I'm not about to say "I was right" because I didn't say it'd be just like that winter. I'm all for giving credit where credit is due but overall for me this winter has been better than any winter I can recall since the 80's or maybe early 90's. The '09/10 winter for me was forgettable. I recall nothing about it. I know we didn't get below zero here nearly as much, Lambert didn't drop below zero though on a global scale I believe '09/10 is a good analog. I also believe we are going into a pattern of several winters (much like the late 70's) of harsh winters. You can see how the polar vortex is being displaced by the warm anomalies over the arctic circle. I have no clue if that also occurred in the late 70's or not but I see no reason that won't continue for at least a few more years but that does concern me as it will continue to effect arctic ice levels. The forecasts that are going to bust hardcore were the ones calling for warmth and little snow. I think Friv called for a warm winter with little snow but then revised it to like 25" of snow? I'm not certain as I didn't catch those posts so I don't want to misquote him but I'm fairly certain he called for a warm winter but I can't blame him as the teleconnection predictions looked fugly at the time but it appears the AO forecast (for this winter) was very poor as I think it called for a highly positive AO and I don't believe that has been the case. It's gone from negative to positive. Taking a quick look it's been mostly negative all of Jan with only one positive spike which may have been during our warm week in Jan when most of the "blizzard" melted away. Speaking of which. Before the last few snows I had a 2" pile about 5x5' leftover from an old drift from the Jan 5th storm. I can't think of a winter where I had a patch of snow on the ground for a month straight that wasn't a pile from snow removal. In Feb the AO has trended back positive currently sitting around +1. Current forecast (which has been awful this year) has it going negative then positive then looks like about equal chances of going either direction.
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Post by RyanD on Jan 31, 2014 19:36:58 GMT -6
exactly, ignorance is rampant in American anymore it seems. I just noticed that weather underground has an entire section on Climate Change, specifically man-made Climate change. I've just glanced at it but I'm weary of any website that "might" have an agenda. If I'm not mistaken, NBC bought the TWC and TWC bought weather underground. Hope I'm right about that If so that makes me a bit leary. One of the first videos that have is from Al Gore. hmmmm...... I'd rather hear from real scientists than a politician, especially one that is set to profit from carbon credits.
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Post by RyanD on Jan 31, 2014 18:46:46 GMT -6
Thanks CSNAVY! I'm not saying the guy is right. Just presenting the synopsis of the show. I still need to listen to the show but be mindful that that show used to be Art Bell's show and now it's really crappy since George Noory took it over. Noory used to be on KMOX before taking over the show. It has some neat guests from time to time but it also a "conspiracy" program at it's heart so you always have to be cautious with any info presented. I'll have to check out those Youtube links but I'm always super cautious of YouTube because any crackpot can put up videos on YouTube claiming to be an expert. A perfect example are the sudden viral "fake snow" videos that are cropping up after the recent snow in the deep south. People are burning snow with lighters claiming it doesn't melt but just burns. Of course it's just the lighter not fully burning the fuel and charring the snow. It's total bunk from people with no knowledge at all.
Also, when I said, "from my research I've done in the past" I was alluding to reading similar things/ideas in the past but I agree, there is little hard evidence to back up all the claims but I do suspect there is some truth to the allegations but that's just my opinion. We always have to be mindful of the money trail. When there's grants on the line, people's livelihoods at stake and carbon credits to sell then you have to be skeptical at times of some reports. Money, greed and even desperation can never be discounted.
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Post by RyanD on Jan 30, 2014 17:59:08 GMT -6
This is a short synopsis from last night's C2CAM radio show. I'm not familiar with the guest so I can't attest to his character or accuracy but from research I've done in the past this is not the first time I've heard of these kinds of allegations. I may comment further once I get a chance to listen to the show which I have recorded online with Dar.fm
Climate Fraud:
In the first half of Wednesday's show, space historian Robert Zimmerman contended that fraud and dishonesty have permeated the sciences of climate and environmental studies, including scientists at NASA and NOAA manipulating the temperature records. "Global warming scientists/activists within the climate science field too often are frauds," faking data, and working to destroy the careers of scientists who disagree with them," he remarked. For instance, both NASA and NOAA have claimed that 2013 was one of the hottest years on record, but they arrived at these conclusions by manipulating the temperatures from earlier in the 20th century, consistently estimating them at cooler numbers. While some of their temperature re-adjustments of the past may be accurate, the fact that they are always colder indicates they are manipulating the data to validate the global warming theory, he argued.
Some climate scientists have admitted that there's been a "pause" in global warming for the last 18 years, but they have no explanation for this as it goes against their models which predict warming based on increased CO2 in the atmosphere, he noted. When it comes to claims of extreme weather increasing, we're not actually seeing evidence for this-- for example, last year the US had its lowest recorded tornado count in 50 years, and a very weak hurricane season, Zimmerman detailed. He also talked about the lull in solar activity, as well as developments in space exploration.
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