resurrected Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 1/2 inch of rain. That's it. Didn't even lose power. Fuck the weather people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggstop Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Yah that was bullshit but im happy to have not lost power cuz some people here did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discolé monade Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 that is why i said i didn't see anything on enki. IF this had been an actual emergency, i would have gotten a proper notification. screw local new weather. screw weather channel. and damnit..i want a barometer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 22 minutes ago, discolemonade said: that is why i said i didn't see anything on enki. IF this had been an actual emergency, i would have gotten a proper notification. screw local new weather. screw weather channel. and damnit..i want a barometer. Fine. Get a barometer. And you can measure the barometric pressure every time a cloud comes up. Because these dumb fucks at the weather station can't get shit right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacky1980 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 hour ago, midnight said: Fine. Get a barometer. And you can measure the barometric pressure every time a cloud comes up. Because these dumb fucks at the weather station can't get shit right. get her one of these. basically a barometer, but also kinda looks like a tree dick. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, wacky1980 said: get her one of these. basically a barometer, but also kinda looks like a tree dick. I'd tag her, but she turned off her notifications, and I'm too lazy to go show her. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacky1980 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Just now, midnight said: I'd tag her, but she turned off her notifications, and I'm too lazy to go show her. she'll see it eventually. give her the tree dick. maybe this is a euphemism now? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 minute ago, wacky1980 said: she'll see it eventually. give her the tree dick. maybe this is a euphemism now? Bend over disco, and let me check your barometric pressure with my tree dick. For science. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 2 hours ago, wacky1980 said: get her one of these. basically a barometer, but also kinda looks like a tree dick. Now THAT'S a needle dick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackNoir Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Weather outlets giving out bad info almost let to me getting caught on the gulf coast in Katrina.....I literally was going to stay in my apartment 3 blocks off the shoreline because I had ran from so many drizzles that were supposed to be monster storms. It was sheer luck that my mother finally convinced me to come stay at my uncle's further inland. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrigunBebop Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilgar Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 I thought this was about that thread in DF. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 8 hours ago, stilgar said: I thought this was about that thread in DF. No shit. That was a worse storm than the real one that hit here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Me Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 15 hours ago, cryptkicker5 said: 1/2 inch of rain. That's it. Didn't even lose power. Fuck the weather people. Yeah it was kinda bs...we were at what? A torcon 3? They kept talking about hail and they closed school early and we just got rain...at 3am....that’s it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 minute ago, Still Me said: Yeah it was kinda bs...we were at what? A torcon 3? They kept talking about hail and they closed school early and we just got rain...at 3am....that’s it Yep. We had all the warnings in place here, and got half an inch of rain. Never lost power. Lights never even flickered. The sun was out yesterday morning, then around noon, we got some rain. Then around 4, the sun was back out again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discolé monade Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 9 hours ago, CryingFreeman said: Weather outlets giving out bad info almost let to me getting caught on the gulf coast in Katrina.....I literally was going to stay in my apartment 3 blocks off the shoreline because I had ran from so many drizzles that were supposed to be monster storms. It was sheer luck that my mother finally convinced me to come stay at my uncle's further inland. and that's the thing. these outlets deliver nothing but drama. hell...the weather channel has it's own 'soap opera' line up. it's not even news anymore. just shows. and the reporting. weather person ~ there's a possible chance it might hail maybe if the conditions are right, probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacky1980 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 i think creating drama is definitely the worst part of weather forecasting. it's literally the least entertaining tv to watch, as long as there's nothing dangerous coming. so if they create the impression that there's even the slightest chance of dangerous weather, they have a bankable item. there's also the liability aspect. if they don't tell you what the worst case scenario looks like, and then the worst case scenario occurs, they've been negligent to the point of causing / contributing to innocent deaths. unfortunately it's a lesser-of-two-evils situation. either piss people off by being unnecessarily cautious, or leave people under-informed to the point that they don't take a weather event seriously, with the result of injury or death. this is mostly why i don't pay attention to consumer-facing weather media. i follow a small number of weather people who are consistently on-mark and respected by the community at large. i'm also a butterfly effect away from having entered a meteorology / atmospheric science program in college. in retrospect, i kinda wish that would have happened. i also like to use the nws website. it provides a baseline forecast model and a pretty strong radar product (the images from above, for starters). it also includes local forecast discussions created by the people directly responsible for issuing weather statements that local stations base their reporting on. it also has access to some pretty awesome raw tools. my personal favorite is the GOES-east and GOES-west full-disk image set, which supplies near-live, satellite-based imagery to every weather station in the western hemisphere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Me Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 hour ago, midnight said: Yep. We had all the warnings in place here, and got half an inch of rain. Never lost power. Lights never even flickered. The sun was out yesterday morning, then around noon, we got some rain. Then around 4, the sun was back out again. I’m more or less ok with it...I don’t do well in bad weather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naraku4656 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 yeah that was pretty bullshit. i had an event to go to last night and literally maybe 8 people were there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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