weather advisory

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

From weather.com:
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY INCLUDING THE CITY OF WORCESTER... THE BLUE HILLS...WALPOLE HILLS AND ALL OF NORFOLK COUNTY INCLUDING DEDHAM AND THE CITY OF BROOKLINE...THE CITY OF BOSTON...ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INCLUDING THE CITIES OF SOMERVILLE...CAMBRIDGE AND NEWTON.

SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE BLOWING AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE AFTER 9 PM AS THE COLD FRONT APPROACHES THEN SHIFT TO NORTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.

Comments

[ron_newman]

30 mph west winds? That will make my bike commute home from downtown Boston interesting....

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Or mine from Waltham... :/

[ron_newman]

Oh, yours will be fun! You won't even have to pedal.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Wow, when i finally got on the road around 6:10, it wasn't windy at all. How was it for you?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Going home early.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

yay wind! my house is getting aired out nicely.

[ifotismeni]

fuck i left my windows open X_____________X
all my shit is going to be messed up grahh

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Just had this thought, too. Damn.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the day for me to take the motorcycle to work, I guess. Tonight's ride home should be interesting.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i took my bike home from the dealer on a day like this.

exciting!

oh no! FUD! it's coming right for me! :)

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[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I brought my Bandit 1200S home from the dealer in Nashua to my apartment in Malden in pouring-down rain. Biggest, heaviest, most powerful bike I'd ever ridden, first bike with (breakable!) plastics, zero miles on the odometer. Round about this time of year, too, so it was dark out. Totally scared I was going to wreck.

[feylike.livejournal.com]

eh, i didn't find it to be too bad. not like some weather last year that had me blowing across lanes of Storrow Drive...

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

heh. there was the vacation I took on my Bandit 1200 this summer...six days through northern PA and the Southern Tier of NY State and I got rained on for four of 'em. Including one day I spent marooned in Glens Falls NY because it was Just. That. Soggy.

or the time I came home late one night from work last January, when it was just beginning to snow. (I have a heated vest, and I'm going to get me a set of heated gloves before it gets much later in the year.)

[lac.livejournal.com]

I work in the Back Bay and let me tell ya....it was hella windy coming back from the gym at lunchtime. I am not a good wind person...it made me very unhappy.

[wonkywheels.livejournal.com]

It is ridiculously windy out! My softball game is going to be interesting....

[etana.livejournal.com]

WAHOO wind!

[jovianconsensus.livejournal.com]

DOESN'T THE NATIONAL - ahem - doesn't the National Weather Service know it's impolite to yell on the Internet?

:p

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

heh -- their advisories are always in all-caps. It has to do with the automated mechanism they use to produce the advisories (which likely predates the internet).

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/010/pd01017001a.pdf for details in case anyone really cares.

[ifotismeni]

whoa.

i've always been curious -- i'm a reporter and at an old job we got our weather news off a feed from them and it was always ALL CAPS and it made me bonkers.

*the more you know*

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Details, yeah. Wow.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

some perl guru more adept than I could probably come up with a script to pipe that to to give it more or less correct case.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Instead of Perl just use Ruby, and then you do this:

puts nws_message.capitalize!

wheee!

[feylike.livejournal.com]

it's only hinted at in that reference, but i think the reason for the harsh character set limitations is so the message can be usefully transmitted over old teletype or rtty equipment using ITA2. (5-bit "Baudot" code: no lower case, and number digits are sent by entering a "shift" state)

[sly-salkie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting!

[kpht.livejournal.com]

watch your car doors! i've had to exhaust my arm muscles keeping them from blowing open and smashing gleefully into the cars parked next to me.