I’m still amazed by how much severe weather has been kicking off today across Mississippi and Alabama. The radar data is just amazing… The purple boxes represent tornado warnings. I’m somewhat surprised there is nothing associated with the storm west of Warrior, Alabama. The velocity product shows strong rotation and the reflectivity shows a pretty
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Well, with all of the severe weather in Mississippi and Alabama, it’s a weather geek’s paradise. These images are from the Columbus AFB, Mississippi NEXRAD. You can see the classic “hook echo” on the base reflectivity product. The other two images (green and red) are velocity products where you can clearly see strong rotation idicating
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I’m not sure why, but some people seem to believe that being rude is the magical key to getting anything accomplished. For example, look at this thread on the Mint.com support site. I cannot help but feel some sort of sympaty for the way Jami, the Mint.com employee handling the issue, has been treated. Fair
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Yesterday, there were 58 tornado reports with 12 injuries noted. So far today, and it is still young, there have been 8 tornado reports. Quite an active week with more expected tomorrow in the eastern part of the U.S. The SPC has us (Northeast Florida) in a slight area for tomorrow. We sure do need
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Things are not looking good across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. The Storm Prediction Center has placed much of that area under a high risk for severe weather today. This spring has really found the midwest and south being pummeled by system after system. Areas continue to see heavy flooding and towns have
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Talking about Verizon’s 4G Network Suffers Outage – WSJ.com Verizon Wireless said its new high-speed 4G network was suffering an outage on Wednesday. No kidding. I can’t even get 3G here just outside of Jacksonville…
So, I recently had an email forwarded to me that seemed like it contained some relevant information about our government. One line in the email stated, “Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans.” That’s enough to make any American who
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Talking about Beauty of the Web I will have to admit, I never thought I would be tempted to steer away from Google Chrome. However, Microsoft appears to have done a splendid job with Internet Explorer 9. Today is the first day that I have really played around with it after reformatting my computer last
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Talking about Sony: Hacker stole PlayStation users’ personal info – CNN.com A hacker has obtained the personal information of PlayStation Network account holders and subscribers of the Qriocity streaming service, Sony said in a message to customers Tuesday. I would say it looks like Sony will have their hands full for a while to clean
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I’ve noticed over the past week or two that I have two hits from a search for the email address: joysweet95@gmail.com. Before the last format of the website, I had posted a write-up about my communications with the user of this email address. Essentially, I was trying to sell my iPod Classic on CraigsList. This
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