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Baseball and Weather
« on: August 21, 2015, 09:17:46 am »
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2015, 09:36:00 am »
That's pretty cool.  The Angels should have clauses that he can't chase tornadoes or hang outside in hurricane force winds.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2015, 11:19:39 am »
Quote from: subnuclear on August 21, 2015, 09:17:46 am
Apparently, das isn't the only one at that intersection of interests.

He is indeed a big weather geek and posts on a couple of the more-credible weather forums out there.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2015, 11:25:38 am »
Quote from: das on August 21, 2015, 11:19:39 am
He is indeed a big weather geek and posts on a couple of the more-credible weather forums out there.

Wait...there are weather forums?  Do y'all sit around do PBP for the big storm?  Curse Al Roker and his use of the word "intriguing"?  Speculate on trades?...they should trade those two satellites for one Doppler radar...
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2015, 12:09:25 pm »
What's going on at the less-credible weather forums?
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2015, 02:46:28 pm »
Quote from: subnuclear on August 21, 2015, 12:09:25 pm
What's going on at the less-credible weather forums?

RayK questioning if rain is actually a real thing.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2015, 03:11:16 pm »
Quote from: subnuclear on August 21, 2015, 12:09:25 pm
What's going on at the less-credible weather forums?

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Re: Baseball and Weather
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2015, 03:59:02 pm »
Damn it,  I had to wait nearly two minutes before I got to hear Frankie demand that potentially affected citizens BEEEE PREPARED!

The quality of his broadcasts are beginning to slip a bit.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2015, 06:16:28 pm »
Quote from: HudsonHawk on August 21, 2015, 11:25:38 am
Wait...there are weather forums?  Do y'all sit around do PBP for the big storm?  Curse Al Roker and his use of the word "intriguing"?  Speculate on trades?...they should trade those two satellites for one Doppler radar...

The Category V vs. Category 5 thread was epic.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2015, 07:57:04 pm »
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2015, 08:53:02 pm »
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Who the fuck is Frankie McDonald?

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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2015, 12:38:26 am »
Quote from: subnuclear on August 21, 2015, 12:09:25 pm
What's going on at the less-credible weather forums?

Bushneck Lackeying, Heterodoxying and gorveling, mainly...
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2015, 08:38:01 am »
Quote from: subnuclear on August 21, 2015, 12:09:25 pm
What's going on at the less-credible weather forums?

Global warming discussion.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2015, 11:49:46 am »
Quote from: HudsonHawk on August 21, 2015, 11:25:38 am
Wait...there are weather forums?  Do y'all sit around do PBP for the big storm?  Curse Al Roker and his use of the word "intriguing"?  Speculate on trades?...they should trade those two satellites for one Doppler radar...

There is indeed.  Tons of them.  Not as many as baseball but there is a whole world of weather geeks out there.

Funny about the PBP.  That is actually what happens for tropical systems, big snowstorms and other severe weather events like tornado outbreaks.  They usually start 10 days ahead of an event when the computer models forst pick up on the possibility then get very focused as the even unfolds.  Then they are analyzed post-event ad nauseum.  Just like a game is here.  Forecasters are evaluated and rated based on performance and media outlets and the $$ side of the business are debated incessantly.  Again, just like here.  The parallels are pretty funny.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2015, 11:51:00 am »
Quote from: subnuclear on August 21, 2015, 12:09:25 pm
What's going on at the less-credible weather forums?

Lots of Barzilla-like "I feel like this storm is going to plaster us with 30+" of snow..."  Poor takes that get summarily run.

Quote from: The Spleen on August 22, 2015, 12:38:26 am
Bushneck Lackeying, Heterodoxying and gorveling, mainly...

This.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2015, 11:51:54 am »
Quote from: homer on August 21, 2015, 03:11:16 pm
This

Frankie is the best.  A legend in the forecasting community.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #17 on: September 01, 2015, 12:03:21 pm »
Quote from: Dark Star on August 24, 2015, 08:38:01 am
Global warming discussion.

Lots of that too.  Most good forums have the global warming discussion segmented off into a sub-forum.  Otherwise, it derails most of the worthwhile conversation.

If anyone wants to see an example of a good forum, go here:
http://www.americanwx.com/bb/index.php/forum/20-weather-forecasting-and-discussion/

Unsurprisingly, I post as "das" there.  Sometimes in the main forum, more often in the Mid-Atlantic forum.  One feature most weather sites have that is missing in Baseball forums is a they break out users into groups so that you can more quickly discern the value of the post.  Degreed meteorologists are clearly defined (typically by a red tag of some sort).  So are professional forecasters and people that work in related fields like broadcast weather.  The forums are typically heavily moderated by capable and fair mods so people that make a bunch of wack comments are run.  I won't go so far as to say they are academic forums but they bend in that direction.
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Re: Baseball and Weather
« Reply #18 on: September 02, 2015, 09:11:58 pm »
  One feature most weather sites have that is missing in Baseball forums is a they break out users into groups so that you can more quickly discern the value of the post.  Degreed meteorologists are clearly defined (typically by a red tag of some sort).  So are professional forecasters and people that work in related fields like broadcast weather.  The forums are typically heavily moderated by capable and fair mods so people that make a bunch of wack comments are run.  I won't go so far as to say they are academic forums but they bend in that direction.
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