Hi.
I do have to say that not all NOAA offices are created equal, and Buffalo
is definitely not one of the best. I live in Rochester where I can get
info from both Buffalo and Binghamton, and frankly, the info coming out of
Binghamton is generally much more detailed than the stuff coming out of
Buffalo. I think the real problem is that Buffalo is covering too large an
area to do justice to any of it mostly due to federal penny pinching.If you
look at what they are trying to cover, they forecast for two Great Lakes
(Erie and Ontario), the Niagrara River, the St. Lawrence River, Western New
York, the Finger Lakes and northern New York up to St. Lawrence County.
In the days that you were talking about, Rochester, and Syracuse had their
own weather offices and generated their own forecasts, and the job was much
more manageable.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 10:10 AM 2/7/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Bob and Others,
>
>I used to love the radar reports. I don't know how many picnics I saved or
>reasonably cancelled during the summer and how many times I ignored the
>TV/commercial nay sayers who kept predicting blizzards that never happened.
>The reports used to go something like this:
>
>At 3:45 PM a band of snow showers is developing off Lake Erie. They are
>currently located from 15 miles off shore to 5 miles off shore and are
>about 10 miles wide. Their direction is south by south west and they are
>expected over the Buffalo metro area by 4:25 PM. (These reports were always
>taken at 15 minutes before the hour.)
>
>Since the continued compartmentalization and privatization (the agricultural
>supplement was privatized and is available on a monthly/yearly basis for a
>rather stiff fee.) the National Weather service has been dropping such
>valuable tools and replacing them with (as you report) fancy sounding
>forecasts that are so vague at times that they could be construed as
>astrology. (Some time in the future, you will have a significant health
>issue; some time between midnight tonight and the afternoon the next day, it
>will rain.)
>
>Take care.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Tinney" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:35 AM
>Subject: Re: weather information
>
>
>Hi,
>Our local Noaa weather radio does give a local weather outlook summary
>statement as part of the looping broadcast. If the forecast is a little
>uncertain, that feature goes away for some reason.
>Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>Skype name: bobtinn
>One of the best days of my life is today!
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:11 AM
>Subject: weather information
>
>
>Does anybody remember, and it was not to long ago, when the weather report,
>told you all about the location and progress of the weather making systems?
>Highs, lows, fronts, etc. Now all we get is forecasts, what not why. Has
>anybody found a usable place to find that information. How did this
>Panhandle hook developed? What was the pressure gradient? Where is it
>going next? How did it get so big? Why was their a massive outbreak? Why
>did we get up to twenty inches of snow? All we get is fancy forecasts, and
>no information.
>
>
>
>
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