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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, SAY IT AIN'T SO
By adamg on Mon, 04/11/2016 - 5:50pm
NOOOOO STOP NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TO END USING ALL CAPS IN REPORTS STOP CAN'T DEAL STOP SEND SMELLING SALTS STOP
ED. NOTE: AS A LONGTIME READER OF NWS BULLETINS, I KNEW THIS DAY WOULD COME, BUT STILL ...
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I mean ...
Imagine the following, from the NWS discussion on the January, 2015 blizzard, in mixed case:
it's gonna be okay
they are not going all e.e. cummings, after all.
they can switch back to all caps for bombogenesis, baby, or whenever they want more emphasis or just feel like yelling. and it will mean something.
they've just given themselves more options now. just wait until they start doing blizzard forecasts in comic sans.
If there's a god...
they'll retain the option to switch to all caps if the situation WARRANTS IT, BABY!
Such as
PONDING IN THE FORENOON.
That has to be my all-time all-caps favorite NWS statement. No idea who confused the Commonwealth of MA with a Commonwealth country, though.
Wait
DOES THIS MEAN THAT WE WONT BE ABLE TO COMMENT ON THE UNIVERSAL HUB USING ALL CAPS ANYMORE?
Charming and Antique
Dang. That's seriously ancient. ASCII supported lower case printing in the early '60's for teleprinting. They were on the older Baudot 5-bit standard. I hadn't even heard of Baudot code until I visited the Marconi Museum Station in Chatham and the guide told me an ASR 33 teletype was really modern. On the other hand, reliable, battle tested, and IT FREAKING WORKS.
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rfax
Yes, seconded. I don't think that news report tells the whole story here. There us a ton of emergency services that quote the nws / NOAA reports. There are a ton of radio transmitters out there broadcasting in rfax. People on boats use it. So is rfax going away?
Boats - maybe?
The linked article says "Certain forecast products with international implications, such as aviation and shipping, will continue to use upper case letters, per international agreements that standardize weather product formats across national borders."
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Chuckle...
I still have a couple of friends who end their e-mail that way. Worse... I still welcome seeing it.
Out west
In Calif this week reading AFDs, and they're in lowercase font! Maybe the ERH and WRH are on different time frames and equipment. Still, I hope the forecaster writing "IT'S BOMBOGENENSIS, BABY" will remember to go all-caps for that.
This headline scared the hell out of me
I was so sure that "4 to 5 inches this weekend" was coming up that I preemptively started swearing
ME, TOO!
I was like, "You've gotta be f#$%ing kidding me"!
WEATHER IS HAPPENING
EVERYONE WILL HAVE TO GET THEIR WEATER HERE INSTEAD: @WEATHERISHAPPEN
http://weatherishappening.com/
OF COURSE! THANKS!
HOW COULD I FORGET THOSE WEATHER BLOBS AND THE ALL IMPORTANT BAROPRESH?
Plus, it's an awesome reminder of how fun the Web was in 1997. Now to get a hit off Zombo.com.
wtf?
wtf?
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