Solak Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 April 11, 2016 LISTEN UP! BEGINNING ON MAY 11, NOAA’S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS WILL STOP YELLING AT YOU. Cool little bit of history in the article as to how they got started with the all caps, and why it continued. http://www.noaa.gov/national-weather-service-will-stop-using-all-caps-its-forecasts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nchighcountrywx Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 This will take some getting used to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWNC2015 Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 so pretty much instead of THIS IS A PDS TORNADO WARNING EMERGENCY we get this is a pds tornado warning emergency makes sense to me.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calm_days Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 In fact, in web speak, use of capital letters became synonymous with angry shouting. While it wouldn't have made sense to mention in the article per se, one can type out the alphabet in all caps, then a few lines above or below type it in lower case, then use something like Photoshop to blur them, and at the same amount of blur, the lower case letters are mostly illegible, while the capital/upper case can still all be discerned. I'VE ALWAYS NOTICED A DIFFERENCE/IMPROVED EXPERIENCE IN MY ATTENTION WHEN READING A NWS REPORT BUT COULDN'T PIN DOWN EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS. I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WANT TO CHANGE IT. I DO FEEL THAT MANY OTHER PEOPLE NOTICED A GREATER CLARITY IN THEIR ATTENTION AS WELL! IT IS DEFINITELY MORE THAN JUST YELLING IF IT HELPS PEOPLE.... TO SOME EXTENT IT MAY ACTUALLY BE THAT ALL CAPS CAN BE BOTH READ, AND WRITTEN, WITH GREATER ACCURACY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 While it wouldn't have made sense to mention in the article per se, one can type out the alphabet in all caps, then a few lines above or below type it in lower case, then use something like Photoshop to blur them, and at the same amount of blur, the lower case letters are mostly illegible, while the capital/upper case can still all be discerned. I'VE ALWAYS NOTICED A DIFFERENCE/IMPROVED EXPERIENCE IN MY ATTENTION WHEN READING A NWS REPORT BUT COULDN'T PIN DOWN EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS. I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WANT TO CHANGE IT. I DO FEEL THAT MANY OTHER PEOPLE NOTICED A GREATER CLARITY IN THEIR ATTENTION AS WELL! IT IS DEFINITELY MORE THAN JUST YELLING IF IT HELPS PEOPLE.... TO SOME EXTENT IT MAY ACTUALLY BE THAT ALL CAPS CAN BE BOTH READ, AND WRITTEN, WITH GREATER ACCURACY. The legibility is, in this case, simply a function of size. The capital letters are larger than the small case letters. It doesn' change your fact, but that is the reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solak Posted April 12, 2016 Author Share Posted April 12, 2016 so pretty much instead of THIS IS A PDS TORNADO WARNING EMERGENCY we get this is a pds tornado warning emergency makes sense to me.. Upper case letters in forecasts will not become obsolete – forecasters will have the option to use all capital letters in weather warnings to emphasize threats during extremely dangerous situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isohume Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Another needless "fix". #handholding #squeakywheel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nchighcountrywx Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Another needless "fix". #handholding #squeakywheel I agree... after years if reading them in all caps, mixed case will not have the same impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isohume Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 I agree... after years if reading them in all caps, mixed case will not have the same impact. I could see making the change if that's what our customers and partners wanted, but in my 13 years in the NWS I've never heard of anyone complaining about all cap text products. Content yes, but font? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 I could see making the change if that's what our customers and partners wanted, but in my 13 years in the NWS I've never heard of anyone complaining about all cap text products. Content yes, but font? No. I'm sure Mack didn't like all caps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyefan1 Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 I could see making the change if that's what our customers and partners wanted, but in my 13 years in the NWS I've never heard of anyone complaining about all cap text products. Content yes, but font? No. It's always best never to ask why Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 I'm sure Mack didn't like all caps!I approve ALL CAPS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isohume Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 It's always best never to ask why So true. Life is much easier that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtg947h Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Good. Reading all caps got painful after a while. It's nice to see things getting dragged out of the 50s. Now, if only we could get the FAA to stop issuing ridiculously-abbreviated all-caps things like NOTAMs and change to plain English... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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