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Calrissian
 Post subject: Tired of BB? Why not Watch Hurricane TV
PostPosted: 10 Jul 05, 17:33 
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Hurricane dennis is about to smash up a piece of the southern US coast. If you're a bit tired of BB on this sleepy Sunday, why not enjoy the storm! As below, is both the homepage link for the live (and free) broadband TV online station covering this storm.

There is a direct link also for you to paste in WMP, if the homepage 'live' link fails to click up your media player.
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TV homepage:

http://www.wkrg.com/

or....
open up windows media player..
select 'open url'.... and paste this full line in....

(do not click the following link, just cut and paste it as stated!)

mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmb ... 1144_93320

Enjoy.

Calrissian: Sometimes has the fury of a Cat'5
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Ha,ha, don't beleive this. I actually like watching things about the weather. I might check this out later :D

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well 'later'?

The centre of the storm hits the coast at about 8-10pm tonight.

winds currently gusting 135mph, pressure 930, storm moving NNW 18mph. However, the storm is only 40miles wide, - relatively small, so the path of destruction won't be too bad for the locals.

Coverage on that TV channel has so far been great, although it might go offline later....if their ISP gets whacked !
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Forgot, didn't see/read the live part in your post.

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cheers for that Carlrissian, just put it on and the quality is not too bad.

So far it looks very wet. This is very early in the season for a hurricane! :eek:
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its a pretty good feed indeed.

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one special note on the main weather forecaster they have on...
he looks utterly terrified to be on TV ! He is literally shaking to pieces, his voice is all over the place, and its almost painful to watch this guy in action.

Dennis is about to whack the US hard.

Calrissian: cat'3


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edit....if you want the best live feed of the radar...

(all the settings you can change to what you fancy. This link includes the settings that I like)

paste the follow THREE bits into your address bar ! (I cut it up, otherwise the forum template gets messed up)

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radbl ... noclutter=
0&showstorms=5&showlabels=1&ID=EVX&lat=0&lon=0&label=you&type=N0R&zoommode=
pan&map.x=400&map.y=240&centerx=593&centery=101&prevzoom=pan
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If you reduce the size of the player, then the quality gets better. Trouble is, when you reduce the size of the player, you can't really see that much :D

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Ooh....never found this site before and I thought I was a weather nerd! :oops:
It is indeed very early Westy.The oceans must be warmer than usual.Think the pressure is still falling at the epicentre though so it's gonna be pretty potent when it hits :-?
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It has just hit land looks like its got even bigger now :-?
Just hope people heeded warnings and have left the area
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I'm ultra weather freak. If you think I'm something of a BB fan, then that pales compared to my weather interest.

*yes, its very early in the season for a storm of this strength. Although its not surprise though, since the SST (surface sea temps) are way above normal, and thus able to fuel such strong storms.

Should be a busy hurricane season. 4 storms already, and it ain't even August !
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Last time was so early was 1977 was it not?And the year before had been exceptionally warm in the Northern hemisphere.
Am such a nerd have the phone number to the met office!Am not so bad now but used to take 4 hourly readings of temp,wind direction and pressure!!!Used to plot my own graphs.I still make my own forecasts from empirical findings!!!

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spikylass wrote:
Am such a nerd have the phone number to the met office!Am not so bad now but used to take 4 hourly readings of temp,wind direction and pressure!!!Used to plot my own graphs.!


Hmm. I did that from age 10-14. I taught myself Meteorology/Climatology...self taught myself in GCSE Meterology when I was 16 (was practically the only student in s.e england doing that unusual course).

Ended up taking work experience at the Met Office in bracknell at 17 - which I arranged myself - even though I'd never really been away from home before. Found a distant relative who lived nearby.. - stayed with them....and that was that. 2 weeks hanging out with the head forecasters - during...none other than the 'burns days' storm of Jan 1990. Very good timing !
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As you may be aware, we're now in a new cycle of 25-35 years of much higher storm frequency. Those along Florida/gulf coast really just going to have to accept that they are going to get their homes smashed to pieces a lot more often now until at least 2020.

Calrissian: 1020mb...and slowly rising
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Were many people hurt in this hurricane? - 'cos I'm not allowed have Real Player...

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Calrissian wrote:
spikylass wrote:
Am such a nerd have the phone number to the met office!Am not so bad now but used to take 4 hourly readings of temp,wind direction and pressure!!!Used to plot my own graphs.!


Hmm. I did that from age 10-14. I taught myself Meteorology/Climatology...self taught myself in GCSE Meterology when I was 16 (was practically the only student in s.e england doing that unusual course).

Ended up taking work experience at the Met Office in bracknell at 17 - which I arranged myself - even though I'd never really been away from home before. Found a distant relative who lived nearby.. - stayed with them....and that was that. 2 weeks hanging out with the head forecasters - during...none other than the 'burns days' storm of Jan 1990. Very good timing !
---

As you may be aware, we're now in a new cycle of 25-35 years of much higher storm frequency. Those along Florida/gulf coast really just going to have to accept that they are going to get their homes smashed to pieces a lot more often now until at least 2020.

Calrissian: 1020mb...and slowly rising


935 mb...even inland :-? :-?
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145 mph sustained winds....looks like is loosing its intensity tho @^@
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