Topic: Winter '16-'17

[WheatonRon]

No kidding about slow loading.
Love what they did here. 78% chance of 6-8" sounds good.
NAM has us around 16" which would be awesome but unlikely.

Wow! Did not know weather can be that precisely forecasted! 78%, not 78.2 or 77.7%? Sounds goofy but maybe that is what the computer spits out! A percentage rounded to the nearest 5% would give this forecast more credibility!

[Jáchym]

Omaha, can you post the entire script please

[Jáchym]

One thing I see:

Code: [Select]

if (!isset($wfo)&
This tells the script: set wfo to abr if it has not been set before - so you need to make sure nowhere before this wfo was set, I need to see the entire script

[Jáchym]

Hi,
sorry, Im probably blind, I dont see any attachments in post 520

[Scalphunter]

in pass 3 hours we have warmed up 24 degrees. last time we were above freezing  mark was Dec 31 when we got up to 35 degrees.

John

[Jáchym]

in the first script, when I did search for "wfo" I found this:


// Enter Default Station
$wfo = "OAX";

so the second script ignores your setting because it "is set", you need to change it here

[Jáchym]

welcome

[gwwilk]

Thanks, Jachym, for picking up on this.  I was goofing off and then warming up on my tuba before a community concert band rehearsal this evening.  Sorry for the confusion.

[Jáchym]

Absolutely no problem guys Its always nice when you can help someone (I was actually on Skype with one other guy explaining him how plugins work in Meteotemplate, but because it did not require much concentration I could answer questions here as well Multitasking

[Scalphunter]

Went from -39 to -9 in 3.5 hours. So first of the Chinook  effects have arrived just  before we cooled down at sunset. The wind here even tho it been light  has raised the temperature to -2. F

John

[WeatherHost]

Temps are forecast to be  ....  normal for the next few days  40-45/25-30

First time all month.

[gwwilk]

Experiencing "normal" weather is a rare phenomenon simply because it's an aggregate of the extremes which we much more commonly see.  Witness then precipitation 'norms' for the US West Coast, for instance.  They get a 10-year deluge and this then contributes greatly to the 'average' annual rainfall which most other years (9 out of 10 by definition) will be considerably less.

Statistics are handy for keeping track of these things, but the resultant numbers shouldn't be regarded as the common, expected, 'normal' experience.  This fallacy leads to apocalyptic thinking.  Witness the gyrations of the 'climate scientists' who use recent (the past several years) weather to bolster their apocalyptic claims.  Climate science needs to better accommodate these normal fluctuations to extremes by viewing at least 30 but preferably 100 years of weather to make pronouncements about our climate.  Otherwise they're merely complaining about the weather just like any old farmer at the General Store on a Saturday.

[Jáchym]

Exactly, the current winter has been well below the average and people are surprised... but last 4 or 5 were well above average so obviously there has to be below average winters too to reach the "average"

Jan 17 has so far been by far the coldest month since I began measuring regularly in Jan 2012

[ValentineWeather]

Well said Jerry. 

[tbrasel]

I concur, well articulated Jerry 

[Jáchym]

Im glad you pointed it out Jerry, just a few tweets of Donald Trump:

It's really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!

It’s snowing & freezing in NYC. What the hell ever happened to global warming?

Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!

[PaulMy]

Otherwise they're merely complaining about the weather just like any old farmer at the General Store on a Saturday.

Ahhh, the good old farmer, and great memories of an old fashioned winter.....

Paul

[Scalphunter]

Having an heat vortex here. First time above the zero mark in 23 days.

John

[Jstx]

Just another absolutely perfect day in paradise (most of STX).
Ahhh, summertime...oh wait...it's the middle of winter!
Sorry about y'all above ~35°N. We do get a lot of snowbirds (urk, the world's second worse drivers).

Mine, hardly a cloud all day, dry (not a usual condition ).
Weather Conditions for E7881:

Graphical Links
20:21
Max Since 0:00 (CST)
Min Since 0:00 (CST)
24 Hour Maximum
24 Hour Minimum
Temperature  71.0° F  84.0 at 16:53  55.0 at 2:14  84.0 at 16:53  55.0 at 2:14
Dew Point  61.1° F  63.7 at 19:19  37.6 at 3:11  63.7 at 19:19  34.3 at 20:45

18:01 81.0 57.6 65.7 45 2.0 3.0 SE 29.15 29.63 0.00 0.00 OK
17:56 81.0 57.0 65.4 44 2.0 3.0 ESE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:51 81.0 57.0 65.4 44 3.0 3.0 ESE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:46 82.0 57.9 66.2 44 2.0 3.0 ESE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:40 82.0 57.9 66.2 44 2.0 3.0 ESE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:35 82.0 57.3 65.9 43 2.0 3.0 SE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:30 82.0 57.3 65.9 43 2.0 3.0 SE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:25 83.0 58.2 66.6 43 2.0 3.0 SE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:20 83.0 58.2 66.6 43 3.0 4.0 SE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:14 83.0 57.5 66.3 42 2.0 4.0 ESE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:09 83.0 57.5 66.3 42 3.0 5.0 SE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
17:04 83.0 57.5 66.3 42 4.0 6.0 SE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
16:59 83.0 57.5 66.3 42 6.0 6.0 SE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
16:53 84.0 57.7 66.7 41 4.0 4.0 SE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
16:48 84.0 57.7 66.7 41 3.0 5.0 SE 29.14 29.62 0.00 0.00 OK
16:43 84.0 57.7 66.7 41 2.0 5.0 SE 29.16 29.64 0.00 0.00 OK
16:37 84.0 57.7 66.7 41 2.0 4.0 SE 29.16 29.64 0.00 0.00 OK
16:32 84.0 57.7 66.7 41 1.0 5.0 ESE 29.16 29.64 0.00 0.00 OK
16:27 83.0 56.8 66.0 41 3.0 5.0 SE 29.16 29.64 0.00 0.00 OK
16:22 83.0 56.8 66.0 41 3.0 5.0 SE 29.16 29.64 0.00 0.00 OK
16:17 83.0 56.8 66.0 41 4.0 5.0 SE 29.16 29.64 0.00 0.00 OK
16:12 83.0 56.8 66.0 41 4.0 5.0 SE 29.16 29.64 0.00 0.00 OK
16:07 83.0 56.8 66.0 41 4.0 4.0 SE 29.16 29.64 0.00 0.00 OK

DATA THROUGH 6PM CST
HIGHEST LAST 18 HOURS. LOWEST LAST 18 HOURS...12AM TO 6PM CST
PRECIP LAST 24 HOURS...ENDING AT 6 PM CST
.BR LUB 0124 C DH18/TAIRZS/TAIRZI/PPDRZZ
:
:ID   LOCATION                 HIGH  LOW    PCPN
:                                           24HR
:...SOUTH TEXAS...
ALI  :Alice                 :   93 / 45 /     0
ATT  :Austin Mabry          :   84 / 50 /     0
AUS  :Austin Bergstrom      :   85 / 40 /     0
BPT  :Beaumont              :   78 / 48 /     0
BRO  :Brownsville           :   84 / 60 /     T
BMQ  :Burnet                :   83 / 52 /     0
CLL  :College Station       :   80 / 50 /     0
CXO  :Conroe                :   81 / 40 /     0
CRP  :Corpus Christi        :   85 / 57 /     0
NGP  :Navy Corpus           :   77 / 62 /     0
COT  :Cotulla               :   93 / 52 /     0
DRT  :Del Rio               :   84 / 52 /     0
GLS  :Galveston             :   75 / 60 /     0
HRL  :Harlingen             :   86 / 59 /     0
HDO  :Hondo                 :   85 / 42 /     0
HOU  :Houston Hobby         :   79 / 53 /     0
IAH  :Houston Bush          :   80 / 48 /     0
UTS  :Huntsville            :   80 / 52 /     0
JCT  :Junction ASOS         :   89 / 47 /     0
NQI  :Kingsville            :   93 / 57 /     0
LRD  :Laredo                :   94 / 58 /     0
MFE  :McAllen               :   91 / 62 /     0
BAZ  :New Braunfels         :   85 / 43 /     0
PSX  :Palacios              :   76 / 58 /     0
LVJ  :Pearland              :   79 / 55 /     0
RKP  :Rockport              :   77 / 62 /     0
SAT  :San Antonio           :   82 / 44 /     0
SSF  :San Antonio Stinson   :   86 / 44 /     0
DWH  :Tomball               :   81 / 48 /     0
VCT  :Victoria              :   82 / 51 /     0
TEXAS TEMPERATURE EXTREMES:
Highest...94 at Laredo
Lowest....30 at Marfa

[ValentineWeather]

Got to fire the snowblower up today. 

[zackdog]

Got to fire the snowblower up today. 

Appears that you had a little wind to go with the snow.

Mark

[ValentineWeather]

Got to fire the snowblower up today. 

Appears that you had a little wind to go with the snow.

Mark

42 mph to be exact. Snow was 18" deep at house front door. Thought I wasn't going to get it open..

[Jáchym]

Good that we dont have that much snow here - it can happen here too, but it is very rare and no-one here has such device, so I would have to do with a shovel

[Scalphunter]

68 degree difference this week from last week where we  were at  -48. Snow eater in progress

John

[ValentineWeather]

8-14 day outlook.
Been watching models the really cold stuff is going to build into western Canada and eventually spill into the States next week.  Just like it did in December when it was -31 here