[ ]   [ ]   [ ]                        [ ]      [ ]   [ ]

NYTimes Connections - ScottFromWyoming - Jul 6, 2025 - 9:50pm
 
Hey Baby, It's The 4th O' July - GeneP59 - Jul 6, 2025 - 9:42pm
 
Love & Hate - GeneP59 - Jul 6, 2025 - 9:37pm
 
Triskele and The Grateful Dead - GeneP59 - Jul 6, 2025 - 9:35pm
 
Spambags on RP - KurtfromLaQuinta - Jul 6, 2025 - 9:33pm
 
M.A.G.A. - islander - Jul 6, 2025 - 9:32pm
 
Trump - R_P - Jul 6, 2025 - 8:21pm
 
Customize a shirt with my favorite album - 2644364236 - Jul 6, 2025 - 7:20pm
 
Israel - R_P - Jul 6, 2025 - 6:19pm
 
Democratic Party - kurtster - Jul 6, 2025 - 6:13pm
 
Mixtape Culture Club - KurtfromLaQuinta - Jul 6, 2025 - 4:09pm
 
July 2025 Photo Theme - Stone - KurtfromLaQuinta - Jul 6, 2025 - 4:09pm
 
NY Times Strands - GeneP59 - Jul 6, 2025 - 1:10pm
 
Wordle - daily game - GeneP59 - Jul 6, 2025 - 1:01pm
 
Radio Paradise Comments - GeneP59 - Jul 6, 2025 - 12:55pm
 
Name My Band - DaveInSaoMiguel - Jul 6, 2025 - 11:56am
 
Those Lovable Policemen - R_P - Jul 6, 2025 - 10:56am
 
Today in History - Red_Dragon - Jul 6, 2025 - 8:45am
 
Beyond mix - frazettaart - Jul 6, 2025 - 8:00am
 
Beer - SeriousLee - Jul 6, 2025 - 6:54am
 
Iran - R_P - Jul 5, 2025 - 9:01pm
 
USA! USA! USA! - R_P - Jul 5, 2025 - 8:01pm
 
What are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Coaxial - Jul 5, 2025 - 6:48pm
 
Republican Party - skyguy - Jul 5, 2025 - 7:51am
 
New vs Old RP App (Android) - mhamann123 - Jul 5, 2025 - 5:41am
 
Russia - islander - Jul 4, 2025 - 4:51pm
 
Britain - R_P - Jul 4, 2025 - 1:41pm
 
Artificial Intelligence - R_P - Jul 4, 2025 - 11:39am
 
Ukraine - R_P - Jul 4, 2025 - 11:10am
 
Best Song Comments. - 2644364236 - Jul 3, 2025 - 11:32pm
 
What the hell OV? - oldviolin - Jul 3, 2025 - 11:29pm
 
Country Up The Bumpkin - KurtfromLaQuinta - Jul 3, 2025 - 3:49pm
 
Immigration - R_P - Jul 3, 2025 - 1:23pm
 
The Obituary Page - ScottFromWyoming - Jul 3, 2025 - 11:27am
 
Documentaries - Proclivities - Jul 3, 2025 - 9:31am
 
Annoying stuff. not things that piss you off, just annoyi... - Steely_D - Jul 3, 2025 - 8:36am
 
DQ (as in 'Daily Quote') - black321 - Jul 3, 2025 - 7:40am
 
Copyright and theft - black321 - Jul 3, 2025 - 6:48am
 
Bug Reports & Feature Requests - wossName - Jul 3, 2025 - 6:30am
 
Trump Lies™ - R_P - Jul 2, 2025 - 5:01pm
 
Outstanding Covers - NoEnzLefttoSplit - Jul 2, 2025 - 2:38pm
 
Protest Songs - R_P - Jul 2, 2025 - 2:20pm
 
Fox Spews - islander - Jul 2, 2025 - 10:39am
 
Music Videos - black321 - Jul 2, 2025 - 8:02am
 
Economix - rgio - Jul 2, 2025 - 7:37am
 
New Music - ScottFromWyoming - Jul 2, 2025 - 7:30am
 
Carmen to Stones - KurtfromLaQuinta - Jul 1, 2025 - 7:44pm
 
Climate Change - R_P - Jul 1, 2025 - 5:27pm
 
Baseball, anyone? - rgio - Jul 1, 2025 - 11:06am
 
President(s) Musk/Trump - VV - Jul 1, 2025 - 8:10am
 
June 2025 Photo Theme - Arches - Alchemist - Jun 30, 2025 - 9:10pm
 
Please help me find this song - LazyEmergency - Jun 30, 2025 - 8:42pm
 
Forum Posting Guidelines - rickylee123 - Jun 30, 2025 - 6:17pm
 
Thanks William! - buddy - Jun 30, 2025 - 5:49pm
 
Living in America - R_P - Jun 30, 2025 - 3:15pm
 
Gardeners Corner - marko86 - Jun 30, 2025 - 10:39am
 
Comics! - Red_Dragon - Jun 30, 2025 - 7:59am
 
Birthday wishes - Coaxial - Jun 30, 2025 - 6:36am
 
Talk Behind Their Backs Forum - VV - Jun 30, 2025 - 5:39am
 
Global Mix renaming - frazettaart - Jun 29, 2025 - 9:23am
 
Live Music - Steely_D - Jun 28, 2025 - 6:53pm
 
What Are You Going To Do Today? - ScottFromWyoming - Jun 28, 2025 - 10:17am
 
• • • The Once-a-Day • • •  - oldviolin - Jun 28, 2025 - 9:52am
 
Musky Mythology - R_P - Jun 27, 2025 - 3:00pm
 
Know your memes - oldviolin - Jun 27, 2025 - 11:41am
 
What Makes You Sad? - oldviolin - Jun 27, 2025 - 10:41am
 
Calling all Monty Python fans! - FeydBaron - Jun 27, 2025 - 10:30am
 
Strips, cartoons, illustrations - R_P - Jun 27, 2025 - 10:23am
 
SCOTUS - Red_Dragon - Jun 27, 2025 - 8:30am
 
Framed - movie guessing game - Proclivities - Jun 27, 2025 - 6:25am
 
Yummy Snack - Proclivities - Jun 26, 2025 - 1:17pm
 
Parents and Children - kurtster - Jun 26, 2025 - 11:32am
 
What Makes You Laugh? - NoEnzLefttoSplit - Jun 25, 2025 - 9:36pm
 
PUNS- Political Punditry and so-called journalism - oldviolin - Jun 25, 2025 - 12:06pm
 
Lyrics that strike a chord today... - black321 - Jun 25, 2025 - 11:30am
 
Index » Radio Paradise/General » General Discussion » Weather fun Page: 1, 2  Next
Post to this Topic
Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 22, 2021 - 12:28pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I didn't even notice that but I'm betting the handle is so that he can spin the board around for a different map. Or something. The local news guy here in the 60s used a schoolroom 2-sided chalkboard with a national map on  one side and a state map on the other. He spent his 5 minutes hand-writing the temps on the map as he talked about whatever but rarely the temperatures. It was mesmerising to watch; he'd write a few temps then stop his narrative and say Billings 65, Laurel 68, Big Timber 64 and the numbers would be in the right place, unmarked on the map, then he'd start writing numbers again while talking about something else, then stop and read what he wrote.

Yeah, it probably was some kind of pivoting or sliding board.  I remember the local weathermen had them when I was a kid - pre-green-screen days.  Most of the ones I remember had some sort of marker board with the maps printed on them.
ScottFromWyoming

ScottFromWyoming Avatar

Location: Powell
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 22, 2021 - 11:15am

 Proclivities wrote:


Kind of an odd place to put a map - on a door - with an impossible assortment of temperatures.


I didn't even notice that but I'm betting the handle is so that he can spin the board around for a different map. Or something. The local news guy here in the 60s used a schoolroom 2-sided chalkboard with a national map on  one side and a state map on the other. He spent his 5 minutes hand-writing the temps on the map as he talked about whatever but rarely the temperatures. It was mesmerising to watch; he'd write a few temps then stop his narrative and say Billings 65, Laurel 68, Big Timber 64 and the numbers would be in the right place, unmarked on the map, then he'd start writing numbers again while talking about something else, then stop and read what he wrote.
Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 22, 2021 - 10:26am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


(6 years later)

You'd be smiling too if you lost both legs in a baler but the local station gave you a job anyway.

(all that blue, I thought it looked like he was just floating there...)


Kind of an odd place to put a map - on a door - with an impossible assortment of temperatures.
ScottFromWyoming

ScottFromWyoming Avatar

Location: Powell
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 22, 2021 - 9:39am

 Proclivities wrote:
Harry Volkman



(6 years later)

You'd be smiling too if you lost both legs in a baler but the local station gave you a job anyway.

(all that blue, I thought it looked like he was just floating there...)
Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 22, 2021 - 9:09am

Eight-second exposure with neutral-density filter to get the glassy look on the water while it was raining - fun.


haresfur

haresfur Avatar

Location: The Golden Triangle
Gender: Male


Posted: Oct 6, 2016 - 3:39pm

Climate Kelpie 



Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Feb 2, 2016 - 10:29am

Harry Volkman
Prodigal_SOB

Prodigal_SOB Avatar

Location: Back Home Again in Indiana
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 13, 2014 - 9:21am

 kurtster wrote:
would be interesting to see if you changed your original post to this map if all the reply maps changed as well.
 

  An image in a post is just a link to a file on another computer.  In the case of the weather channel map that file (URL http://i.imwx.com/images/maps/current/curtemps_600x405.jpg) is continuously updated so that whenever you reload the forum page your browser will go and get the current version unless it has a cached copy it can use.  If you store that image in a different file with a different URL then it will remain static.  Changing the URL in the original post would affect only that post.  All the posts that replied to the original post would still reference the constantly updated file.  All subsequent replies would pick up the new URL.

kurtster

kurtster Avatar

Location: where fear is not a virtue
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 13, 2014 - 8:19am

 Proclivities wrote:

I think this was the weather map from the day I originally posted that - there was a nationwide heat-wave at the time:
map 

 
would be interesting to see if you changed your original post to this map if all the reply maps changed as well.


bokey

bokey Avatar

Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 13, 2014 - 8:16am

 Proclivities wrote:

I think this was the weather map from the day I originally posted that - there was a nationwide heat-wave at the time:
map 

 
I deleted my  post because the map I was looking about 10 posts down is now showing a different date.
Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 13, 2014 - 8:14am

 bokey wrote:

The image is the same but the date has changed.

 
I think this was the weather map from the day I originally posted that - there was a nationwide heat-wave at the time:
map 


ptooey

ptooey Avatar

Location: right behind you. no, over there.
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 13, 2014 - 8:12am

 Proclivities wrote:
map
 
And may I say what an honor it is to apparently have taken the title of Lowest High Temperature in the Lower 48.  THREE WHOLE DEGREES.


kurtster

kurtster Avatar

Location: where fear is not a virtue
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 13, 2014 - 8:12am

 Proclivities wrote:

Yeah, that's odd.  I didn't realize when I posted that but the URL is an actively updated image instead of a static one.

 
It is conceivable that we could have a thread with about a dozen or so WC maps and have a place to get a quick look at the important info.  One post for all the maps and just a periodic bump to keep it on the raft.
Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 13, 2014 - 7:59am

 kurtster wrote:

What is pretty cool or frustrating about any map you grab from the weather channel, they somehow update themselves.

 
Yeah, that's odd.  I didn't realize when I posted that but the URL is an actively updated image instead of a static one.


kurtster

kurtster Avatar

Location: where fear is not a virtue
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 13, 2014 - 7:52am

 Proclivities wrote:
map

I don't remember seeing the map being only shades of red (largely deep red), yellow, and orange, but I guess I never looked for that either.  The coldest place on the map seems to be around Monterey; the rest looks like a picture of a fire.
 
What is pretty cool or frustrating about any map you grab from the weather channel, they somehow update themselves.
Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Dec 20, 2013 - 12:37pm

Utah

...evidently, unicyclists were not affected.




OlderThanDirt

OlderThanDirt Avatar

Location: In Transit
Gender: Male


Posted: Jul 20, 2013 - 3:27pm

 Proclivities wrote:
I don't remember seeing the map being only shades of red (largely deep red), yellow, and orange, but I guess I never looked for that either.  The coldest place on the map seems to be around Monterey; the rest looks like a picture of a fire..
 
Very similar to the comment I made to L after watching last night's weather news: "We're all gonna fry!!"

The Monterey figure is right on, by the way.
Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Jul 19, 2013 - 12:52pm

map

I don't remember seeing the map being only shades of red (largely deep red), yellow, and orange, but I guess I never looked for that either.  The coldest place on the map seems to be around Monterey; the rest looks like a picture of a fire.

Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Oct 3, 2012 - 6:32am

rain


MsJudi

MsJudi Avatar

Location: Houston, TX
Gender: Female


Posted: Oct 3, 2012 - 6:23am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
{#Eek}
Page: 1, 2  Next