January Banter

[kvegas-wx]

I would love to put the ground temp issue to bed once and for all but with real data. Anyone game for a little science experiment? I say we have as many members as possible report on the same parameters (tbd) and we compile results for future storms. It seema like we always have this issue in the SE, so wouldnt it be good to have a data set to forecast from? How often do we have the chance to get out in front of a storm like this?

Who's in? What measurements do we want? We need a uniform template.

[NGaWxNerd]

I would love to put the ground temp issue to bed once and for all but with real data. Anyone game for a little science experiment? I say we have as many members as possible report on the same parameters (tbd) and we compile results for future storms. It seema like we always have this issue in the SE, so wouldnt it be good to have a data set to forecast from? How often do we have the chance to get out in front of a storm like this?

Who's in? What measurements do we want? We need a uniform template.

I'm not using my new meat thermometer for this, I refuse. But I'll borrow the neighboors.

[oconeexman]

I was feeling good for NW SC and Ne Ga until I figured out that march 09 we got the shaft according to Andy. I haven't checked for sure but he's confident and I usually try to forget those types of screw jobs! If that happens again then we're just doomed in the golden corner and on to something else. Hopefully the entire state of NC gets their fair share so things can calm down around here while its cold and dry down the road.

[lilj4425]

I was feeling good for NW SC and Ne Ga until I figured out that march 09 we got the shaft according to Andy. I haven't checked for sure but he's confident and I usually try to forget those types of screw jobs! If that happens again then we're just doomed in the golden corner and on to something else. Hopefully the entire state of NC gets their fair share so things can calm down around here while its cold and dry down the road.

[oconeexman]

Oh and is it possible for Wilkes to lose power for a while??? JK buddy

[Cold Rain]

Good Lord this is a horrible, horrible game.

[strongwxnc]

No doubt...

 

 

Good Lord this is a horrible, horrible game.

[jburns]

Sorry to not get back to you sooner! 

Right now, while I am still manly and virile, like my buddy Burns, I want the real deal.  3 or more inches lol.  T

And you called me stubby.

[Stovepipe]

Ah - that might explain why I don't pay much attention to him.  Smugness is another word for narcissistic d*****bag.

Before you guys get off on bashing Neil deGrasse Tyson, you should understand that you truly are dealing with a badass here.  The guy is pretty amazing and I'm surprised you nerdy types haven't seen him on Discovery Channel or History channel as he appears in countless documentaries.  Here are some badass NDT quotes: 

 

Source:  http://mentalfloss.com/article/13049/11-badass-neil-degrasse-tyson-quotes

 

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson is America's preeminent badass astrophysicist. He's a passionate advocate for science, NASA, and education. He's also well-known for a little incident involving Pluto. The man holds at least seventeen honorary doctorates in addition to his real one; we're dealing with a badass over here. Now, eleven of our favorite NDT quotes.

 

1. On science: "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." From Real Time with Bill Maher.

 

2. On NASA funding: "'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I’d prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar." From Space Chronicles, p. 25.

 

3. On God and hurricanes: "Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms." From Death by Black Hole, p. 361.

 

4. On the benefits of technology invented for use in space: "... Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope."

From Space Chronicles, p. 24.

 

5. On the demotion of Pluto from planet status: "I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a drawer full of hate letters from hundreds of elementary schoolchildren (with supportive cover letters from their science teachers) pleading with me to reverse my stance on Pluto. The file includes a photograph of the entire third grade of a school posing on their front steps and holding up a banner proclaiming, 'Dr. Tyson—Pluto is a Planet!'" From The Sky Is Not the Limit, Kindle locations 1537-1540.

Image credit: PBS

 

6. On the climax of the movie Titanic: "In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky—one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?" From Death by Black Hole, p. 330.

 

7. On death by asteroid: "On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death." From Space Chronicles, p. 53.

 

8. On the motivations behind America's moonshot: "[L]et us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do." From The Sky Is Not the Limit, p. 70.

 

9. On who named the stars: "After the 9/11 attacks, when President George W. Bush, in a speech aimed at distinguishing the U.S. from the Muslim fundamentalists, said, 'Our God is the God who named the stars.' The problem is two-thirds of all the stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. This would confound the point that he was making." From The Amazing Meeting Keynote Speech, 2008.

 

10. On 2012 apocalypse predictions: "There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower [them] to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you." On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, June 24, 2009.

 

11. Practical advice in the event of alien contact: "f an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader." From Death by Black Hole, p. 107.

 

[Cold Rain]

This is nerve-racking.

[Bevo]

Before you guys get off on bashing Neil deGrasse Tyson, you should understand that you truly are dealing with a badass here.  The guy is pretty amazing and I'm surprised you nerdy types haven't seen him on Discovery Channel or History channel as he appears in countless documentaries.  Here are some badass NDT quotes: 

 

Source:  http://mentalfloss.com/article/13049/11-badass-neil-degrasse-tyson-quotes

 

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson is America's preeminent badass astrophysicist. He's a passionate advocate for science, NASA, and education. He's also well-known for a little incident involving Pluto. The man holds at least seventeen honorary doctorates in addition to his real one; we're dealing with a badass over here. Now, eleven of our favorite NDT quotes.

 

1. On science: "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." From Real Time with Bill Maher.

 

2. On NASA funding: "'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I’d prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar." From Space Chronicles, p. 25.

 

3. On God and hurricanes: "Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms." From Death by Black Hole, p. 361.

 

4. On the benefits of technology invented for use in space: "... Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope."

From Space Chronicles, p. 24.

 

5. On the demotion of Pluto from planet status: "I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a drawer full of hate letters from hundreds of elementary schoolchildren (with supportive cover letters from their science teachers) pleading with me to reverse my stance on Pluto. The file includes a photograph of the entire third grade of a school posing on their front steps and holding up a banner proclaiming, 'Dr. Tyson—Pluto is a Planet!'" From The Sky Is Not the Limit, Kindle locations 1537-1540.

Image credit: PBS

 

6. On the climax of the movie Titanic: "In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky—one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?" From Death by Black Hole, p. 330.

 

7. On death by asteroid: "On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death." From Space Chronicles, p. 53.

 

8. On the motivations behind America's moonshot: "[L]et us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do." From The Sky Is Not the Limit, p. 70.

 

9. On who named the stars: "After the 9/11 attacks, when President George W. Bush, in a speech aimed at distinguishing the U.S. from the Muslim fundamentalists, said, 'Our God is the God who named the stars.' The problem is two-thirds of all the stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. This would confound the point that he was making." From The Amazing Meeting Keynote Speech, 2008.

 

10. On 2012 apocalypse predictions: "There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower [them] to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you." On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, June 24, 2009.

 

11. Practical advice in the event of alien contact: "f an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader." From Death by Black Hole, p. 107.

 

 

Nerd? NERD?!

 

I'm the coolest M effin' nerd you will ever know.  

[WilkesboroDude]

North Wilkesboro makes it on the Jimmy Kimmel show...   

 

[jrips27]

So who starts the Obs thread when the appropriate time arrives?

 

 

I vote Burger.

[Bevo]

Hey!

 

Hey....... hey, Stovepipe! 

 

 

 

 

I am STILL the coolest M Effin' nerd you will ever know.

[Stovepipe]

Sweet Jesus, not a ground temps debate... 

 

 

 

Love busting that out year after year.  It's how I picture everyone involved in the discussion.  The only thing that sometimes trumps it is a sun angle debate.  Or concern trolling rather.

[Stovepipe]

Hey!

 

Hey....... hey, Stovepipe! 

 

 

 

 

I am STILL the coolest M Effin' nerd you will ever know.

You are pretty cool, I must say. 

 

[Cold Rain]

Geez.

[Bevo]

You are pretty cool, I must say. 

 

 

We just brought it in for the real thing brother.

[Brick Tamland]

I wouldn't be surprised if this event ended up like this one.

 

[magpiemaniac]

I wouldn't be surprised if this event ended up like this one.

[snip]

 

[dsaur]

That's a good question. My experience with these types of systems is that the don't go crazy here like they tend to do for some of the western and northern areas (I posted that in the other thread too). I would guess a sloppy inch or two here.

I think ATL is under a WSW just to raise public awareness of the potential...and there is potential for a minor event there (and here). If that pans out, they can always change to a WAA. If it trends worse, they can always upgrade to a Warning. A WSW leaves them room and options going forward. It's a prudent thing to do at this point, probably.

And they still don't know where it will go, or what it will do.  Ala. thinks it's a big deal, so Atl. might as well be on the look out too   Even if it's car top snow, it will blow a lot of minds if they don't get a warning   When I was young we were always suprised when it snowed.   Made it more fun.  Now there are so many yankees living in Atl. they have to warn them, because they don't know how to drive in a hilly city, lol.  T

[dsaur]

And you called me stubby.

Well, I did say, "or more".  T

[metalicwx366]

I hope don't have the flu. I feel terrible. Anyone know any medicine or remedies that actually work.

[NGaWxNerd]

And they still don't know where it will go, or what it will do.  Ala. thinks it's a big deal, so Atl. might as well be on the look out too   Even if it's car top snow, it will blow a lot of minds if they don't get a warning   When I was young we were always suprised when it snowed.   Made it more fun.  Now there are so many yankees living in Atl. they have to warn them, because they don't know how to drive in a hilly city, lol.  T

I'm so tired of the NAM playing with my emotions.

[dsaur]

Before you guys get off on bashing Neil deGrasse Tyson, you should understand that you truly are dealing with a badass here.  The guy is pretty amazing and I'm surprised you nerdy types haven't seen him on Discovery Channel or History channel as he appears in countless documentaries.  Here are some badass NDT quotes: 

 

Source:  http://mentalfloss.com/article/13049/11-badass-neil-degrasse-tyson-quotes

 

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson is America's preeminent badass astrophysicist. He's a passionate advocate for science, NASA, and education. He's also well-known for a little incident involving Pluto. The man holds at least seventeen honorary doctorates in addition to his real one; we're dealing with a badass over here. Now, eleven of our favorite NDT quotes.

 

1. On science: "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." From Real Time with Bill Maher.

 

2. On NASA funding: "'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I’d prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar." From Space Chronicles, p. 25.

 

3. On God and hurricanes: "Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms." From Death by Black Hole, p. 361.

 

4. On the benefits of technology invented for use in space: "... Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope."

From Space Chronicles, p. 24.

 

5. On the demotion of Pluto from planet status: "I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a drawer full of hate letters from hundreds of elementary schoolchildren (with supportive cover letters from their science teachers) pleading with me to reverse my stance on Pluto. The file includes a photograph of the entire third grade of a school posing on their front steps and holding up a banner proclaiming, 'Dr. Tyson—Pluto is a Planet!'" From The Sky Is Not the Limit, Kindle locations 1537-1540.

Image credit: PBS

 

6. On the climax of the movie Titanic: "In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky—one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?" From Death by Black Hole, p. 330.

 

7. On death by asteroid: "On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death." From Space Chronicles, p. 53.

 

8. On the motivations behind America's moonshot: "[L]et us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do." From The Sky Is Not the Limit, p. 70.

 

9. On who named the stars: "After the 9/11 attacks, when President George W. Bush, in a speech aimed at distinguishing the U.S. from the Muslim fundamentalists, said, 'Our God is the God who named the stars.' The problem is two-thirds of all the stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. This would confound the point that he was making." From The Amazing Meeting Keynote Speech, 2008.

 

10. On 2012 apocalypse predictions: "There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower [them] to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you." On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, June 24, 2009.

 

11. Practical advice in the event of alien contact: "f an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader." From Death by Black Hole, p. 107.

When Tyson hosted Colbert at the Planetarium, I thought I'd broken something I was laughing so much.  Tyson is cool!  T

[dsaur]

I'm so tired of the NAM playing with my emotions.

This ain't the storm anyway.  If/when we get a nice blast of cold, I think we'll get a stalled front like this one, and we'll get a second blast as impulses move up the weakness.  Then the fun begins.  I saw a nebulous one out in Goofy land just today, and that's the kind of storm I believe in.  A med/weak gom low crossing Fla. with a cold ground, and cold air moving back in.....money!!  This is just novelty snow, and the novelty is watching N.C. go crazy, lol.  T

[NGaWxNerd]

I hope don't have the flu. I feel terrible. Anyone know any medicine or remedies that actually work.

I know this sounds stupid, but I am a Mom (I wear a name tag and everything) but if it really is the flu on day three find something to make you laugh off and on for about 8 hrs. Had the flu a couple of weeks ago and so did my 12yr old. About day 3-4 we watched 8 hrs of DVR recorded Rob Dyradeck Ridiculouses. I laughed, cried and peed my pants but really felt better the next day. Also got bonus points from the boy and gained "cool Mom" status for awhile.

 

Oh yea and lots of fluids, rest, and if your fever is not over 102 , just take OTC for pain and Musinex for congestion.

[NGaWxNerd]

This ain't the storm anyway.  If/when we get a nice blast of cold, I think we'll get a stalled front like this one, and we'll get a second blast as impulses move up the weakness.  Then the fun begins.  I saw a nebulous one out in Goofy land just today, and that's the kind of storm I believe in.  A med/weak gom low crossing Fla. with a cold ground, and cold air moving back in.....money!!  This is just novelty snow, and the novelty is watching N.C. go crazy, lol.  T

I agree. This is like a fart in a whirlwind, wondering who's going to smell it first.

[lilj4425]

WeatherNC just posted.

[Disc]

[rant]Pet peeve: People who ask how much/what's it going to do in their backyard when they have plenty of information to make that judgement. [/rant]