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Hatches battened down?

By adamg on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 8:17am
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Hurricane Irene


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By Suldog on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 8:37am.

Adam, I think your wording may be a bit unintentionally misleading. My first reaction upon reading this was surprise that the warning was issued for this area this morning. That is, that the 10" rain, etc., were arriving today. That's not the case, though, correct? If it IS the case, sorry for questioning.

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By Jay Levitt on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:00am.

According to whatever was the first Google result, it'll hit NC Saturday morning and should reach NYC by Sunday, so it won't hit us before Sunday. Of course, that's the hurricane itself, and there may be surrounding storms; I know nothing about weather except that it gets wet sometimes.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:17am.

Sometime Saturday afternoon.

See you at Nantasket again, Adam?

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By adamg on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:26am.

I actually did have a fedora once ...

Thanks for the head's up - I do feel a beach trip coming on tomorrow afternoon.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:32am.

It could be Sunday morning before it gets real ... we will see!

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By adamg on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:09am.

Sorry about that; added that to the post. Hurricane watches go up 48 hours before the NWS expects an area to be hit by tropical-storm-force winds.

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By bostonzest on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:28am.

I would so love to do a play-by-play edits of the storm hypers on the TV weather reports.

From the obvious glee in their eyes to their choice of the most exaggerated words. I've just purchased a good hurricane tracker app for my iPad to judge for myself what's happening.

Someday a real threat will be on its way and no one will believe them. Give me the facts in three minutes with no colorful language.

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By roadman on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:19pm.

"Hurricane Irene Making Its Way To New England" and then immediately run a sound bite of an evacuation order - for North Carolina.

This is exactly what WBZ radio did at 11:00 today.

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By cycler on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:04am.

A Mass DOT crew at the Longfellow were taking down all the tarps that are on the balustrades (presumably to prevent them being blown away).

Also at the State Street construction that will never die, I noticed that last night they came through and created a 8" high "curb" of asphalt to minimize water running into the excavation and then presumably down onto the tracks.

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By jedH on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:43am.

REALLY, IS IT NECESSARY IN THIS AGE OF DECENT FONTS ON THE DESKTOP (USHERED IN BY THE LASER PRINTER IN 1986) AND GOV 2.0 FOR THE NWS TO CONTINUE TO ISSUE BULLETINS IN ALL CAPS?

HAVE THEY HEARD OF UNICODE?

EVEN SMS ALLOWS LOWER CASE.

DOES IT SOMEHOW MAKE IT MORE SERIOUS SOUNDING?

JUST WONDERING.
LOL

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By mfinnigan on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:06am.

Good question. Answered.

It is not because we want to scream at you! This practice goes back many, many years and relates to international requirements for message dissemination. Some of our international partners still use low-tech dissemination technology which requires the continued use of ALL CAPS. Since the U.S. is an international member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), we follow those guidelines that still exist for the benefit of all nations. That is why TAFs, AIREPs, Marine Forecasts, etc. are typed in ALL CAPS.

First hit on Google for national weather service all-caps

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