We brought up the topic of humorous live weather journalism (various mishaps during random local news-stations and such) at work the other night and I was reminded of Jon Stewart's coverage of a news-station out of Terre Haute, IN and their promo on their Doppler Radar. Apparently, they think fairly high of it and felt the need to completely bash their competition over whose radar is best and who has the most Meteorological experience.
There's not much in the weather department to really discuss, so enjoy the video from the Daily Show archives:
That's just hilarious!
Surprisingly, every once in a while something funny comes across the weather wire. And instead of storing these things on my personal computer, I figured I would share the following with the blogger community (whomever you are!).
First up, a much too detailed Area Forecast Discussion from the Duluth, MN NWSFO on the morning of November 6th:
We had a pretty good laugh about it at work. Not only because it is the most detailed and technical discussion any of us had seen for a lake-effect event, but also because some of this, we had no clue what to make of. Personally, my favorite part was the mention of the "seemingly immortal showers." That's just funny.LAKE EFFECT SHOWERS MAY TAKE THEIR TIME IN MOISTENING THE
LOWER PARTS OF THE COLUMN...BUT ONCE THAT COLUMN IS
MOISTENED...THE SHOWERS PERSIST EVEN AS MODELS TRY TO
INFILTRATE DRY AIR AND END THEM. MORE IMPORTANT THAN
MOISTURE...ANGULAR MOMENTUM IS CONSERVATIVE. IT TAKES
QUITE A BIT OF ENERGY TO START AIR ROTATING ALONG AXES OF
STREAMWISE HORIZANTAL VORTICITY. BUT ONCE THAT ENERGY HAS
BEEN INVESTED...THE ROTATING HORIZONTAL TUBES OF
HORIZONTAL VORTICITY WILL MAINTAIN SHOWERS IN THEIR UPWARD
MOTION AREAS. EVEN WHEN AN INVERSION LOWERS...THE SHOWERS
CONTINUE BECAUSE THE INVERSION SEEMS TO BE PUSHED ALOFT
MANY MANY METERS OVER THE UPWARD MOTION AREAS...
MAINTAINING ENOUGH DEPTH FOR SUBSTANTIAL SNOW PRODUCTION
FROM EXISTING SHOWERS. WE HAVE FOUND THAT ONCE LAKE
CONVECTION HAS BECOME ESTABLISHED...WARM ADVECTION AND AN
ACCOMPANYING WIND SHIFT AT ALL LEVELS HAS TO PHYSICALLY
PUSH THE SEEMINGLY IMMORTAL SHOWERS OFF THE SHORE WHERE
THEIR EXISTANCE OR NON-EXISTANCE IS NO LONGER OUR PROBLEM.
WE ANCPT COLD ADVECTION UNTIL ABOUT 10Z WEDNESDAY ACROSS
THE GOGEBIC RANGE. SO WE ARE TEMPORIZING BY EXTENDING THE
WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 06Z WEDNESDAY.
THERE IS ANOTHER POINT BEARING UPON OUR REASON OF EXTENDING
THE WINTER STORM WARNING WESTWARD ACROSS ASHLAND COUNTY.
BESIDES REPORTS OF SEVEN INCHES OF FRESH SNOW AND VERY
HEAVY SNOWFALL RATES SOUTH OF ASHLAND...RADAR SHOWS A
STANDING WAVE DEVELOPING EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS THAT RUN
DOWN ALONG THE SPINE OF THE BAYFIELD PENINSULA. SATELLITE
IMAGERY CONCURS WITH THIS OBSERVATION. THE STANDING WAVE IS
PROPAGATING TO THE SOUTHWEST...SOUTH OF THE BAYFIELD
PENINSULA. SUBSTANTIAL MOISTURE HAS BECOME ENTRAINED INTO
THIS PROPAGATING WAVE INTO AN UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. THAT
PROPAGATING CONVECTION IS THE SOURCE OF THE SNOWFALL REPORTS
IN ASHLAND COUNTY...WELL SOUTH OF THE LAKESHORE. WITH LITTLE
CHANGE IN COLUMN STRUCTURE...THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE
HAT THE STANDING WAVE WILL FALL APART ANYTIME SOON. OUR
COMMENTS ABOUT ANGULAR MOMENTUM BEING CONSERVATIVE ALSO
APPLY TO THE EXPECTED CONTINUED EXISTANCE OF THIS STANDING
WAVE.
Secondly, a rather humorous (obviously edited!) forecast map:
A friend of mine had this in his Facebook profile. Drizzle, that makes sense, but the rest? Quite the laugh!
Hello folks,
Much like the personal blog went through a redesign of it's layout, I've decided to do the same for the weather blog. I've also been noticing that the weather blog has been increasingly taking up storage on my web-space at mhartman-wx.com.
Considering this, you may notice that I'm back at Blogspot for hosting.
This also enabled me to use the new template. Apparently, hosting on your own server limits what you can do with XML templates.
Enjoy!
Note: I will gradually be transitioning older posts throughout the afternoon.
Our friendly "little" winter storm appears to be spinning up late this evening:
Can you find the low-pressure system? ;)
I've been catching sporadic reports and I've seen amounts generally from 3 to 5 inches thus far. A deformation band appears to be phasing and stretching from central Illinois through northern Indiana and also is resulting in some moderate to heavy precipitation, especially over the northern half of Indiana. Warm air has really pushed northward with this system and freezing rain and ice pellets have been reported across a large part of Indiana and Ohio, as well. This will limit accumulations some, but I still anticipate some hefty accumulations by Sunday evening over northeastern Indiana and far northwestern Ohio. We have amounts from 11 to 15 inches over these parts in our IN-DOT and O-DOT evening (9:00pm) forecasts.
Light snow continues to spread over much of the Ohio Valley this afternoon ahead of a fairly potent low pressure system. Winter Storm Warnings continue and it also continues to appear that significant snowfall accumulations are eminent over the northern half of the Hoosier state through tomorrow evening.
Here is what our afternoon forecast for IN-DOT is indicating for total snowfall accumulations. This is valid for the 1:00pm Saturday through 1:00pm Sunday 24 hour period.
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