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Husband & Dad. Extra class ham radio operator. Love the outdoors and nature. Go Vols! Comments are my own. I RT items of interest. Does not mean I agree.

Huntsville, AL area
Joined February 2009
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Beautiful #aurora continues here in Toney, AL. I can see some pillars and red/green glow. #alwx @NWSHuntsville @spann
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This Nvidia scandal is WILD. 😳
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How is this not a touchdown? Why are they looking at his left foot, his right is in, and he holds the ball until the Kentucky guy falls on him
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City of Copperhill, TN is now within 18 inches of the highest river level ever recorded back in 1990. Widespread and catastrophic flash flooding is ongoing, and heed all evacuation orders!
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Heavy rainfall upstream from downtown McCaysville has caused the Toccoa River to rise into the town of McCaysville. The gauge is currently at 16.3’ and rising. Just horrible. KHTX - Super-Res Reflectivity 1 5:22 AM Digital Storm Total Accum. 5:19 AM #gawx #tnwx #alwx
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The flash flood EMERGENCY has been extended for Fannin and Gilmer counties in Georgia until 2:30 AM EST. This is a life-threatening situation. Move to higher ground now! Radar is estimating up to 8 inches fell in hilly terrain.
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🚨PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 All Magic City Classic tailgating has been suspended. Everyone needs to leave the stadium property as soon as possible. Please do not come to the Legion Field stadium property at this time.
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My favorite time of the year... Everyone goin nuts about the #polarvortex so time for a quick ez explanation of what it actually is. The current buzz is "Sudden Stratospheric Warming" so that's included too. Super basic version!
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A fire at a national lab in South Carolina that is in a complex where key parts for nuclear bombs were once made, triggers an emergency declaration that shut down incoming traffic and restricted air and rail service in the area. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fir…
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Brutal loss. Really disappointing to overcome a 14-point deficit and give the game away with a late fumble.
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Officials sucked. But you CANNOT give the ball up with the game on the line. That was it.
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Ugh! “3” TDs taken off the board today due to senseless penalties… Time to rely on the defense again… #GoVols 🟧⬜️🟧⬜️ ⬜️🟧⬜️🟧 🟧⬜️🟧⬜️
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Like, what!?!?!? How do you miss this!?!?!? Not even a severe?????
What’s going on with these western offices? I understand they don’t get severe weather often, but I feel like we need some sort of standardized training nationally at this point. I’d think if you have a juiced environment, you’d spare someone to monitor radar like a hawk, no? What else is there to do in the downtime?
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SpaceX is reportedly in talks to access at least 80,000 cell sites across the U.S. as it works to build a nationwide wireless network, Bloomberg reports.
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Its all dead now, RIP IEMBot on X
A considerable number of IEMBot accounts on X are currently suspended again as they got swept up in automated lockouts. Am trying various contacts that fixed this before when it last happened in March.
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Neyland is the loudest stadium in America.
130.3 db at Neyland Stadium 😱 The highest verified noise record in college football history 🔉 @Vol_Football
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One of the best performances I’ve ever seen from a Tennessee defense. Jim Knowles deserves to dance!
holy smokes they got knowles to buss down
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The FIRST time in the AP Poll era that 5 of the Top 7 teams fall on the same day 😱
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I am sick and tired of people in traditional "broadcast meteorology" posting smiling selfies during the approach of Isaias. Their theory is... "It's all about ME!!" These nitwits need to spend this week in places like Lenox, Peterman, and Canoe Alabama cutting trees off homes and feeding people. If you want to be a social media influencer or a model, fine. But stay out of weather. Please.
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Realized I forgot to add the Euro-IFS (deterministic) model. So I remade these. It didn’t do well. But I’ll go back to one clarification… the track misses at 72 hours were not just track misses, in some cases they were timing misses. On the other hand: the GDM and Euro AI nailed both track and timing. Crazy.
🌀AI Models Dominate Isaias Forecast By now you’ve heard that Google Deep Mind nailed the #Hurricane #Isaias track forecast, but this shows just how dominant it was. The graph shows the forecast error… less error = more accurate. ~72 hours before landfall out the Google Deep Mind AI ensemble was only off by 19 miles, Euro AI by only 36 miles! There are lots of negative uses of AI, but weather forecasting is one example in which AI can be beneficial.
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This is why I always say experience >>>> education.. this high school kid just dropped a phenomenal breakdown of why the strongest wind in Isaias was west of landfall. Great job dude
THEORY THREAD | What happened in Pensacola, Florida during Hurricane #Isaias. The strongest winds in a tropical cyclone is typically seen in the NE Quadrant of the cyclone. However, Isaias strongest winds near landfall occurred in the NW & SW quadrants. So what happened?
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