Saturn 5 Question

In message , Derek Lyons
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Herb Schaltegger wrote:

To me, however, the biggest and best feature to be added to TV weather
in the last 15 years has been individual tracking of storm cells such
that individual streets and neighborhoods know when to take shelter.
Let's face it, a county-wide tornado warning is not very useful for
most U.S. counties.

I agree, around here a county wide warning would be useless - because
we don't get tornadoes.


Yet :-)

They said that in Birmingham UK, too.
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:23:40 -0500, OM wrote
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:12:21 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
wrote:

The National Weather Service is a government agency, part of NOAA. No
one can lease the NEXRAD data exclusively.

...Not yet, but there have been some scumbags lobbying Congress to
force NOAA to *lease* all their data out so that the taxpayers who
already pay for the data have to pay for it *again*, and only for what
the data miners *want* to give them.

OM



I *have* heard of that. I trust all the people outraged at such a
thing will call their Congress-critters and register their opposition
rather than just bitch about it on the 'net, right? ;-)

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"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:23:40 -0500, OM wrote
(in article ):

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:12:21 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
wrote:

The National Weather Service is a government agency, part of NOAA. No
one can lease the NEXRAD data exclusively.

...Not yet, but there have been some scumbags lobbying Congress to
force NOAA to *lease* all their data out so that the taxpayers who
already pay for the data have to pay for it *again*, and only for what
the data miners *want* to give them.

OM



I *have* heard of that. I trust all the people outraged at such a
thing will call their Congress-critters and register their opposition
rather than just bitch about it on the 'net, right? ;-)

It's at this point as far as I know only a Senator in Pennsylvania.



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Jonathan Silverlight ) writes:
In message , Derek Lyons
writes
Herb Schaltegger wrote:

To me, however, the biggest and best feature to be added to TV weather
in the last 15 years has been individual tracking of storm cells such
that individual streets and neighborhoods know when to take shelter.
Let's face it, a county-wide tornado warning is not very useful for
most U.S. counties.

I agree, around here a county wide warning would be useless - because
we don't get tornadoes.

Yet :-)

They said that in Birmingham UK, too.

Yeah, about a decade ago, we had a tiny twister touch down in Hull,
Quebec, just across the river from us. It lasted about two blocks.

Andre

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"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in
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It's at this point as far as I know only a Senator in Pennsylvania.


Yeah, Santorum. The senator from Accu-weather.
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Jim