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[Don_HH2K]

We're having torrential storms today, some sources say the worst this decade in the Boston area. A number of neighboring towns (mostly in New Hampshire, to the north) have been declared in states of emergency. There's quite a bit of damage, mostly downed trees, with some reporting that a line of violent thunderstorms created a tornado (very unusual out here). The screenshot below is from NewsCenter 5.





This is a Doppler radar image of the remnants of the storm that passed through earlier. I don't have any screenshots of the storm before it passed out to sea, but it was much larger.



Earlier today, I was riding out on I-495 towards western Massachusetts with the radio on. The lightning strikes in the area were so powerful that they could be heard as electromagnetic interference on the radio. When I got home I found out I forgot to close the window, so I had a table full of soaked electronics. Among that was five DVDs, a few game controllers I was fixing for a friend, soldering equipment, and an old laptop power adapter. Everything was unplugged, so I can still hope that some of the stuff will still work once it dries out.

The news has been covering this extensively. I was going to record the Channel 5 news at 11PM and then post it here, but I got lazy.

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[richard mitnick]

Wow!!

And, here in New Jersey, we have just had the best day in weeks, ending with fair skies and a chilly (ha-ha) 80degF.

>>RSM

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[richard mitnick]

I really would li.ke to learn how you folks insert the images into your posts.

Is it just something like ImageShack? Or is it something within SillyDog?

>>RSM

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[Antony]

I really would li.ke to learn how you folks insert the images into your posts.

Is it just something like ImageShack? Or is it something within SillyDog?

>>RSM

Richard,

All you have to do is... host the image somewhere (e.g. imageshack), then apply the BBCode. (Simply surround the URL of the image by [tt][img][/tt]%20...%20[tt][/img][/tt].

e.g.
[tt][img][/tt][tt]http://sillydog.org/forum/templates/images/sd701_mc_logo.gif[/tt][tt][/img][/tt]

We also ask you to make sure that images are no wider than 550 pixel wide if placing them as inline images. For the sake of not creating annoying horizontal scrolling.

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[Antony]

For those who live in Boston or other places with beautiful snow, this may seem "nothing" at all. For people in Sydney, we were excited.

Well, Sydney was very cold today, and we had something called "soft hail", (most people would just refer it as "snow") in certain parts of Sydney. (No, not my place.)

(I am sure the boy in the picture above wasn't throwing snowballs to an American.)

Here's the news report (7News, 27th July 2008):

(Click on the QuickTime Player screen shot above to watch the short clip. Video was encoded in H.264 codec, QuickTime Player 7 is recommended, VLC may work.)


Tomorrow's forecast? Cold.

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[richard mitnick]

Thanks, Mr Snowman (as if....)

>>RSM

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[Don_HH2K]

Well, today's weather after the conditions earlier this week: more rainfall...


...and more violent thunderstorms.


To add insult to injury, the areas afflicted by the tornado are now falling victim to tourism, of all things. People are stopping to look, but nobody's volunteering to help clean up, which ends up making it harder for progress to be made.

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[beanboy89]

And speaking of tornadoes, my county was, at a time, under two different Tornado Warnings. At around 11:30 AM, a cold front was about to come through, and thunderstorm cells just popped up and within minutes of popping up, the cells became severe, and then started rotating, thus prompting a tornado warning. I don't believe any tornadoes were actually spotted; just doppler radar indicated.

The Weather Channel's IntelliStar system shows the cell on radar:


The Weather Channel meteorologist Carl Parker points out the cell responsible for the Tornado Warning:

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[richard mitnick]

Egad-

The best i can come up with is that in Hunterdon County, NJ today, we had an earthquake.
Really. 2.5 on the Richter.

But my daughter was in the 5.X quake in L.A. They were in a big box store about 50 miles from the reputed center of the quake, Chino, CA., where my Medici Pro Strada road bike was built.

Seriously folks, these are really cool stories about the realities of our days.

Visit the Reading thread for some more interesting stuff.

>>RSM

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[Fulvio]

We, first, had two storms in late June, and early July, I think, with straight line winds of over 100 mph. We have not had a single power outage due to the weather in 18 yrs. We have had two power outages this year. Now it getting hot. Over 100 degrees expected Sun. and Mon.

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[richard mitnick]

Hey folks, Eureeka, I used Imageshack.

Antony, how is this for Winter? I did not want to be too big, so click the little blue arrow link to see it full screen.

Cheers.

>>RSM





>>RSM

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[Don_HH2K]

Back in 2005 we had a blizzard. Here's what that can do to a mid-size sedan:



This was one of the shallower snow dunes, which had blown up against the garage door. Notice that the blade of the shovel doesn't even break the top of it.

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[richard mitnick]

So, I still need some help.

The picture I used above is from my library of photos.

I tried to save a weather map from weather.com. I used alt|printscreen, and then tried to save it, but all I could get was a .html, which Imageshack will not handle.

You folks all have stuff up from what looks to be TV.

I tried to get it to open in Picassa 2, Windows Photo Gallery and Microsoft Office Picture Manager so I could save it as a .jpg, but I just could not get it done.

I am on a Vista SP1 machine, and the three programs I cited above are, I believe, all I have.

Any help?

>>RSM

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[richard mitnick]

Don-

I love it!! Especially that clean cut showing the depth.

See my post just above yours, I still need some help with the images.

>>RSM

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[Mandrake]

So, I still need some help.

The picture I used above is from my library of photos.

I tried to save a weather map from weather.com. I used alt|printscreen, and then tried to save it, but all I could get was a .html, which Imageshack will not handle.

You folks all have stuff up from what looks to be TV.

I tried to get it to open in Picassa 2, Windows Photo Gallery and Microsoft Office Picture Manager so I could save it as a .jpg, but I just could not get it done.

I am on a Vista SP1 machine, and the three programs I cited above are, I believe, all I have.

Any help?

>>RSM

I use XnView for simple image editing and cropping. It's free and quite easy to use.

I figured a video would be easier than trying to explain the process. You obviously can't see it in the video, but I use printscreen to take a screenshot, and ctrl +c to copy the url, and ctrl + v to paste the url.

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