2024 Weather

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Okay, stupid social media question. If someone subscribes to a Twitter feed like Max Velocity or Police Frequency, don't you get bombarded with every alert across the nation? How do you separate the relevant local stuff from what's happening 2000 miles away? Or do people just want it all, for some reason I'm not getting?

Thanks.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Okay, stupid social media question. If someone subscribes to a Twitter feed like Max Velocity or Police Frequency, don't you get bombarded with every alert across the nation? How do you separate the relevant local stuff from what's happening 2000 miles away? Or do people just want it all, for some reason I'm not getting?

Thanks.
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I use a scanner.Local, portable and real time.
 
Magicmiler said:
I use a scanner.Local, portable and real time.
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If I was going to pursue this, I'd start with a weather radio. If I wanted to take a step up from there, a scanner would be next step. Like many race fans, I already own one anyway.

But this is mostly academic. I've always felt bombarded when I try to use social feeds as sources of information. Asking how people parse weather feeds might be useful in developing my own filters for other sources.
 
One of many things that caught my eye in @Mispeedway15 's article:

For Vömel, a specialist in the use of observational technologies, the finding served to demonstrate the enduring utility of lofting battery-operated weather instruments on balloons once or twice a day from locations around the globe. Radiosondes have been deployed since the 1930s to measure temperature, relative humidity, wind, and other atmospheric parameters. But some nations have cut back on their use in order to save costs, relying instead on satellites and other newer technologies — several of which are nearing the end of their useful lifetimes. ... Radiosondes were critical to the research, Vömel said, because they provided a detailed snapshot of the atmosphere at numerous locations, providing very accurate observations at different altitudes as they ascended. While satellite instruments offer the advantage of measurements over wide regions of the atmosphere, the dense networks of radiosondes are important for filling in details of atmospheric conditions and for validating the satellite observations.
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And the US is one of those nations cutting back on balloon-deployed radiosondes and other technologies, although the savings are nearly negligible. Well, the cash savings are debatable; the face saving may be significant for those with financial and political reasons to avoid looking weather trends squarely in the eye.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
If I was going to pursue this, I'd start with a weather radio. If I wanted to take a step up from there, a scanner would be next step. Like many race fans, I already own one anyway.

But this is mostly academic. I've always felt bombarded when I try to use social feeds as sources of information. Asking how people parse weather feeds might be useful in developing my own filters for other sources.
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One of my 2 original scanners ( Radio Shack Race track pro 99) is now used for WX, local fire, police & ems. One of them doubles as a dedicated 'Tower ' scanner at the track, in conjunction with my R.E.3000s...
Those 'ol R.S. scanners have never let me down over the past 20 years with programmable, dedicated channels.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Okay, stupid social media question. If someone subscribes to a Twitter feed like Max Velocity or Police Frequency, don't you get bombarded with every alert across the nation? How do you separate the relevant local stuff from what's happening 2000 miles away? Or do people just want it all, for some reason I'm not getting?

Thanks.
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That happens to an extent even signing up for alerts through the local news stations app. I’d get alerted for the same exact thunderstorm warning like five times, even though I’ve selected that I inly want to get alert about events in my county. I’ve decided that if it’s bad enough, I’ll get an emergency alert sent to my phone. Otherwise, I don’t need to be alerted.
 
Brentford said:
That happens to an extent even signing up for alerts through the local news stations app. I’d get alerted for the same exact thunderstorm warning like five times, even though I’ve selected that I inly want to get alert about events in my county. I’ve decided that if it’s bad enough, I’ll get an emergency alert sent to my phone. Otherwise, I don’t need to be alerted.
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Me with the weather radio I got rid of.

I got alerts all the time for tornado warnings and severe storms in Wilmington, and in Greenville, and in Kinston, and New Bern, and everywhere else that isn't Jacksonville. Then when there was a tornado warning for a storm three miles from me, radio silence.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Me with the weather radio I got rid of.

I got alerts all the time for tornado warnings and severe storms in Wilmington, and in Greenville, and in Kinston, and New Bern, and everywhere else that isn't Jacksonville. Then when there was a tornado warning for a storm three miles from me, radio silence.
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I wonder if you were on one of the stations fed by the Wilmington office instead of one out of Morehead City?

 
Thunderstorms weren’t even mentioned for today. Still, we just had heavy rain and 70 mph winds blast through! Good thing I washed my car earlier in the day. 🤦‍♂️
 
The best chance for rain in the last month just missed me by two miles.

Heat index is 94° at 1am and the next heat wave will be worse with a less than 0% chance of rain.

I hate summer. It’s just a four month heat dome with no relief here.
 
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