Brick Tamland Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 The only thing keeping me from ditching cable completely is sports. Same here. I figure you can watch all the TV shows online. I just wonder if getting those services, though, would end up costing the same as cable since the internet cost would be higher without the bundle with cable. But if Google fiber comes in costing less, that might be an option. The only thing missing would be live sports, but with the ESPN deal and an HD antenna for the ones on the local stations, that could be solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Us vs this Winter = B.J. Upton vs Nolan Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 The only thing keeping me from ditching cable completely is sports. This x1000. Upsets me horribly how networks like ESPN/WatchESPN are in such good cahoots with the television providers that we are forced to have the channel to even stream it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 This is how you announce a snow day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjE72Q8s8wo#t=104 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lookingnorth Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 No accumulation. Still a shutout to me. We have had zero winters in recorded history with no accumulating snow, IIRC, yet here we are. Have you looked at 1927-1928, 1990-1991, or 1991-1992? I seem to recall those winters only getting 0 or a trace for GSO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 The pattern is almost ripe, not quite there, need a few changes , but overall look is great! If you can't get excited about this pattern, you need another hobby! Players are on the field, if we could just get that high in earlier, or slow down the low, we would be in business! The vortex just needs to push more, if that low could track 50 more miles south , if that high can just hold on a few more hours or precip come in 6 more hours early! Our winter in a nutshell ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherfide Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I disagree. The pattern will not support snow south of the Ohio valley. We are looking at rain this weekend and again in about a week's time. Time and time again, cold has been way over emphasized on the models. You must adjust the cold depicted based on the reality of the pattern we've seen. No west based -nao and no -ao means no abnormal cold penetrating very far south. It is just the truth of what it is. Don't get your hopes up as you will only be even more disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpiemaniac Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I disagree. The pattern will not support snow south of the Ohio valley. We are looking at rain this weekend and again in about a week's time. Time and time again, cold has been way over emphasized on the models. You must adjust the cold depicted based on the reality of the pattern we've seen. No west based -nao and no -ao means no abnormal cold penetrating very far south. It is just the truth of what it is. Don't get your hopes up as you will only be even more disappointed. Sarcasm detection goes wide right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Whats the average snowfall in High Point for the year? 4 or 5 inches? My point is that one storm in either February and March, and suddenly you are at normal or above, whether or not you had snow in December or January. Our expectations created by forecasts going into winter, was that all of the South was suddenly going to become Buffalo, NY and because so, here we are with people crying from areas that receive a couple inches a year, because they haven't received their average by the end of January. A little perspective goes a long way, that was my point. I average around 9" of snow, not 4-5". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NGA WINTER Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 The pattern is almost ripe, not quite there, need a few changes , but overall look is great! If you can't get excited about this pattern, you need another hobby! Players are on the field, if we could just get that high in earlier, or slow down the low, we would be in business! The vortex just needs to push more, if that low could track 50 more miles south , if that high can just hold on a few more hours or precip come in 6 more hours early! Our winter in a nutshell ! This isn't sarcasm correct? Because you make some valid points. We aren't far away from a snow. Its not gonna happen but it's still on the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowNiner Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm tinkering with saying screw it to this winter.....I'm on the edge. Plus I'm getting tired of seeing that weird steroid alternative dude at the bottom of the page with the weird man boobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgertime Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 The mood on this board right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherfide Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Sarcasm detection goes wide right. Yeah, still missing the cut-off man, I suppose..sorry bout that. There have been numerous posts about this "great potential" all over the weather boards that were serious, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin1926 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 So, do we not think that Joe Bastardi's/Fox News predictions for an epic February are correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalicwx366 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm going to ask a serious question that perhaps another met better versed than myself could answer. As some of you know, a large asteroid made a very close pass to the earth. My question becomes, could the close pass of the large asteroid have affected the atmosphere to the point it shifted this storm, hence why the models began to pick up and shift Sunday night and Monday and why the low pressure system actually did shift. I'm wondering if the gravitational effects of the asteroid pass could have the disturbed the atmosphere enough to cause the shift. Just a thought and question. :lmao: :lol: What makes it even more funnier was that I was about to post something like this as a joke,and a met posted it as a serious question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 So, do we not think that Joe Bastardi's/Fox News predictions for an epic February are correct?How have any of his forecasts been this winter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Surprising to see the next great storm is only 10 days away!?? Seems we heard this about 5 days ago for the Super Bowl crush job we are about to receive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packbacker Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Surprising to see the next great storm is only 10 days away!?? Seems we heard this about 5 days ago for the Super Bowl crush job we are about to receive No comment...except to say no comment :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packbacker Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 So, do we not think that Joe Bastardi's/Fox News predictions for an epic February are correct? What did he say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franklin NCwx Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 What did he say?awesome April! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Surprising to see the next great storm is only 10 days away!?? Seems we heard this about 5 days ago for the Super Bowl crush job we are about to receive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin1926 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 How have any of his forecasts been this winter? LOL -- Thank you for confirming what I was thinking. They just made him sound like he was the second coming and I thought, maybe I'm missing something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin1926 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 What did he say? Starting this weekend until early March, temperatures below zero for 90% of the county and 4' of snow from Canada to Mexico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaculaWeather Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 JB's forecast hasn't been that far off this winter. I guess he's an easy target since he doesn't mince words when he makes a forecast. Some of you need a lesson in humility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin1926 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Nice to see a healthy sense of humor here today -- shall we switch to chatting about stock futures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Nice to see a healthy sense of humor here today -- shall we switch to chatting about stock futures? Go for it. Here: http://www.americanwx.com/bb/index.php/topic/34829-globalus-market-action-and-economic-data/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaStorm Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Yeah, still missing the cut-off man, I suppose..sorry bout that. There have been numerous posts about this "great potential" all over the weather boards that were serious, though. I think your avatar is screwing up our weather. Need to change that summer pic to a winter pic. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCSNOW Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 You're a 19 year old kid. You are critically wounded and dying inthe jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam . It's November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day. Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it. Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back !! 13 more times!! Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey. Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise , Idaho. May God Bless and Rest His Soul. I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about........... You fill in the blank, didn't want to start a bunch of political mess, wasn't the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG FROSTY Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 word on the street is, WINTER CANCEL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaculaWeather Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 You're a 19 year old kid. You are critically wounded and dying inthe jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam . It's November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day. Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it. Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back !! 13 more times!! Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey. Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise , Idaho. May God Bless and Rest His Soul. I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about........... You fill in the blank, didn't want to start a bunch of political mess, wasn't the point. Thanks for that... never forget our heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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