Dennis Bell of Seattle
Arrived on Tuesday 12.1.98 via Netscape and Signed In @ 18:50:15
Comments:
You guys have a first class web site. Any way you can regularly post the weather summary that you write for the daily (printed) edition of the New York Times?
Keep up the good work!
Dennis Bell
RANDY BRINK of TROUT RUN, PA
Arrived on Wednesday 11.25.98 and Signed In @ 12:08:42
Comments:
HEY,FRED AND PAUL ,THERE IS ANOTHER FARMERS' ALMANAC ON THE MARKET THAT IS EXTREMELY ACCURATE.I CAN'T THINK OF THE
NAME OF IT OFFHAND, BUT I CAN TELL YOU IT HAS AN ORANGE COVER PAGE AND IT DIVIDES THE REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY MUCH BETTER THAN THE 'OLD FARMERS ALMANAC DOES.YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK AT THIS BOOK.
Charlie of Numidia, PA
Arrived on Tuesday 11.24.98 via The Internet, of course! and Signed In @ 15:04:33
Comments:
Don't you guys ever update your guestbook? Take a day and do so!
PS - Keep up the good work on WW! It's both entertaining and informative!
Gerry Hirt of duncansville, pa
Arrived on Monday 11.23.98 and Signed In @ 19:00:46
Comments:
Great program but we need a longer range forcast for the first day of buck season. Maybe the monday before
thanksgiving guess what the next monday will be,you usually stop at sunday.
Brion Lesko of Carlisle, Pa.
Arrived on Wednesday 11.11.98 via Netscape and Signed In @ 10:56:14
Comments:
Great show, been watching for 15 years. Good features, new faces. Question- confused about F-index for
tornados- does it apply to speed of wind or of potential damage it may do? Even your show has used it both ways. By the way, what has happened to Joe Bastardi- I miss him. You ought to do an anniversary show where you have clips from old broadcasts to remember all the former personalities.
Jim Ritter of Watsontown, PA
Arrived on Tuesday 11.10.98 via Infoseek Search Engine and Signed In @ 18:48:20
Comments:
Hi! I've been watching the show for years, and really enjoy it. Keep up the GREAT work!!
I could use your help with something: Is there any place on the site that would tell me what the average snowfall was for PA. for the (almost non-existent) "winter" of 1997-98? I have looked around, but cannot find anything yet. Please let me
know. Thanks!
Tim Garland of Carlisle
Arrived on Monday 11.9.98 via Netscape and Signed In @ 09:14:55
Comments:
Last week Lee Grenci said that clouds do not act like blankets at night but rather are radiators. I can see how they
would act like radiators while they are forming due to condensation. Except for during active cloud formation I had
always thought that clouds trapped heat at night and acted like blankets. Please explain. Thank you.
Tim Garland
Charles Puckett of Numidia, PA
Arrived on Friday 11.6.98 via Internet and Signed In @ 18:16:17
Comments:
Guys, I've watched Weather World since about 1976. When I wanted to know what weather was really going to be, I
watched you on WVIA. Keep up the good work. PS - Really enjoy Dr. Hosler(?) when he appears on the show. Like to see more of him if he could break away from his busy schedule.
Curt of Coudersport
Arrived on Sunday 10.25.98 and Signed In @ 20:47:55
Comments:
Whatever became of the world temperature/rainfall extremes that were given on Mondays? Let's keep "Cloudy with a
chance of meatballs", but eliminate those tired reruns of "features". Otherwise I love the show for the past 27 years,
sometimes to my wifes regret, as thats the time we eat dinner.
dale lynn of antarctica
Arrived on Saturday 10.17.98 and Signed In @ 15:12:25
Comments:
any body working on weather forecasts for antarctica?
karen l. demmy of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Monday 10.12.98 via Home Page and Signed In @ 12:03:54
Comments:
Even though I am now a huge weather fan, I enjoy watching when Paul is the host!! You are a cutey!!
william demmy of lebanon pa
Arrived on Monday 10.12.98 via Home Page and Signed In @ 11:59:33
Comments:
i like to keep track of ocean temps. especially in winter. can you start including them?
Ron & Linda of Kersey PA
With a Website @ http://home.earthlink.net/~kuhnrl/
Arrived on Thursday 10.5.98 and Signed In @ 15:22:12
Comments:
One thing tells it all - GREAT JOB.
Bryan J. Motter of Spring Grove, PA
Arrived on Friday 10.2.98 and Signed In @ 22:54:12
Comments:
Noticed that the dates shown for the first Snowfalls in 1997 were exactly the same as the ones reported for the 1995
season. Could there possibly have been an error?
Benjamin Jurtan of New Hampshire
Arrived on Friday 9.11.98 via Netscape and Signed In @ 10:15:10
Comments:
Hello My name is Benjamin Jurta. I am a senior at Merrimack Valley High School in Penacook, New Hampshire. My major is in meteorology. I want to become a TV Broadcaster for Meteorology. I have been interested in meteorology ever since i was a kid.I am a weather fanatic!!!!
Does Penn State offer Broadcasting Meteorology? Could you please send me some information on your college? Hope to hear from you and i thank you for taking the time to read this. Hope to hear from you!!!! Have a great day!!
Benjamin Jurta
Chris Naddeo of Telford, PA
Arrived on Saturday 8.29.98 Via the Web and Signed In @ 16:54:18
Comments:
My Dad (Charles Naddeo) loves your show. He watches it every night. I don't watch the show since I don't get it.
Hope all is well with you guys. Tell Todd I said hello, if he remembers me, we graduated together.
PS: Lose Sam
Aaron Gouzien of New Orleans
Arrived on Saturday 7.11.98 and Signed In @ 16:44:43
Comments:
Please let me know how I can receive weather bouy
information before I go fishing in the areas between Lake Borgne
and Fourchon, Louisiana, and in the Gulf of Mexico 50-70 miles
out. Thanks and I hope you can help. Aaron Gouzien
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Ed. Note: Despite being called Weather World, we do not keep track of weather buoy data in Louisiana. However, we hope you enjoyed your fishing trips. Maybe we can come along next time.
Dale Wickenheiser of Wrightsville, PA
Arrived on Wednesday 7.1.98 Via watching the show every day and Signed In @ 15:30:36
Comments:
I would like to see the show be a 1/2 hour in length.
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Ed. Note: Thank you for your interest in our show. Unfortunately, resources do not permit us to produce a half hour show. We wish we could- perhaps in the future.
Lew Kauffman of Chambersburg
With a Website @ Innernet.net
Arrived on Friday 5.29.98 and Signed In @ 17:59:53
Comments:
I've been watching Weather World for years and tonight (Friday, May 29, 1998) is the first time I've ever heard Elliot at a loss for words! Anyway I really enjoy the program and especially the segments where you surf the web for interesting web weather sites. Thanks
Lew
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Ed. Note: That was probably the only time in history that Elliot was at a loss for words! Thank you for being such a faithful viewer. The web surfing segments may be returning this fall- so stay tuned.
Jay and Nancy Ceglia of Delaware Water Gap, Pa.
Arrived on Thursday 5.28.98 Via lots of searching and Signed In @ 11:32:45
Comments:
THANKS FOR THE MOST INFORMATIVE, ACCURATE FORECASTS
AVAILABLE. WE LOVE THE SHOW BROADCAST ON WVIA ON OUR CABLE
SYSTEM. YOU COULD HAVE MADE FINDING YOUR SITE EASIER BY LISTING
THE SITE REGULARLY ON THE SHOW, HOWEVER. ALSO I FIND IT SOMEWHAT
DIFFICULT TO READ DARK TYPE ON A DARK BACKGROUND. OTHERWISE, WE
LIKE THE SITE AND SHOW. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.
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Ed. Note: Dear Jay and Nancy,
Thanks for your kind words about the show. We will try and remind viewers about the site more regularly and hope that the darker backgrounds (which by the way appear on our evening and night pages) do not hinder your surfing this site!
Jason Faunce of North Carolina
Arrived on Tuesday 4.7.98 Via surfing the net and Signed In @ 22:09:10
Comments:
Hi this is Jason from NC and i am a weather phenatic.
I am 18 and plan on going into the field of Meteorology. Even
though i cant see you all on TV down here i sure would like to
hear from you. Your site is awsome!!! please get back to me
sometime. I need some info if you can on how to go into
Meteorology. Thanks a lot.. Jason
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Ed. Note: Thank you Jason for your nice comments on our web page. To get information on the Meteorolgy program here at Penn State just write to Dept. of Meteorology , 503 Walker Bldg. University Park, PA 16802. Also you can check out the Dept. of Meteorology web site at http://www.met.psu.edu.
Matt Rhone of Chambersburg, PA
Arrived on Saturday 3.21.98 and Signed In @ 18:51:43
Comments:
your show is the bomb.....Everybody in my family
watches your show when we can in our busy schedules.......Your
Friend Matt
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Ed. Note: Thanks for your wonderful comments. We hope that we don't explode in your house too often.
Jane Gray of Hummelstown, PA
Arrived on Monday 3.2.98 and Signed In @ 12:57:20
Comments:
I feel so much better now that I see that my husband
and I are not the only amateur weather-weenies! Most of our
friends think we're pretty strange, but they all ask us what the
weather's expected to do! We are, as you might gather, long
time and enthusiastic Weather World fans. And now that I've
found how to talk back to the show - various people doing the
Weather World forecasts have termed some of the East coast
storms we've had in the last few weeks "unusual", but have not
explained what makes them so. The weather lessons are our
favorite part of the show - don't neglect them. And thank you
for making us Penn State proud.
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Ed. Note: Thank you Jane for your kind comments and for watching the show. Just remember, it is alright to be weather-weenies! We are Penn State!
Kyle Fowler
of Eagles Mere, PA
Arrived on Wednesday 2.25.98 Via Watching Weather World and the Help of Mom&Dad and Signed In @ 20:23:220
Comments:
I am a first grader at Sullivan County Elem. School
and a huge fan of Weather World. I stand next to my tv and give
everyone a demonnstartion next to Fred and Paul, my favorites.
Please tell me if you give tours of Weather World. I want to
be a storm chaser-weather man when I grow up!!! Thanks, Kyle.
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Ed. Note: Kyle, it is remarkable that you can use the web!! Thank you for your kind comments. WPSX does give tours of Weather World, so just give them a call at 814-865-3333
Ralph Caretti
With a Website @ http://http://www.personal.psu.edu/rqc6/
Arrived on Tuesday 2.24.98 and Signed In @ 12:56:50
Comments:
I love your show. What I'd like to see is WPSX
re-broadcast your entire show later in
the evening. I'm not usually home by 5:30pm.
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Ed. Note: Thank you for your gracious comments. Weather Wolrd has no control on when it broadcasts. How about trying the VCR ?
Van Wagner of Danville
With a Website @ http://www.personal.psu.edu/vlw109/
Arrived on Tuesday 2.24.98 Via Surfing and Signed In @ 11:23:53
Comments:
I love your radar page!!!!!!! could you please send my father something via u.s. mail? He is a huge fan of your show and swares by your forecasts! He would love any thing you
sent him. Especially a signed picture!!!!!! He went here in 1966 so he's old school alumni.
his name and addres are:
George Wagner IV
900 Ave F
Danville, Pa 17821
thanks for your time and support of the FANS!!!!!
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Ed. Note: Best wishes to George and family for being such faithful viewers. Hope he got our signed weather chart
Greg "I need snow" Z. of Parkesburg, PA
Arrived on Sunday 1.25.98 Via nunet and Signed In @ 01:53:50
Comments:
Hi, I am a BIG fan of your show. I really enjoy all
the personalities, especially Joe Bastardi, who shares my love
of the frozen, fluffy white stuff. However, because of a recent
move, I CAN'T GET YOUR WONDERFUL 15 MINUTES OF WEATHER ON OUR
LOCAL CHESTER CO. CABLE SYSTEM! Please let me know if there is
anyway to get your excellent program....besides, of course,
moving back. I especially miss the interesting 12 day trend.
Any plans to include it on your website? Oh, and one last
thing, could I request some arctic air and a nice coastal?
Thanks.
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Ed. Note: Sorry to hear you have moved out of the viewing area. Sometime this year, we may be able to place many of the maps seen each night on the web page...but 12 Day Trends will remain off-line...see our discourse on this subject with a comment below. As far as your request...coastal storms - sure, Arctic air...a rare commodity this winter...it's at a premium.
P K Smeal
of Camp Hill, Pa
Arrived on Friday 1.16.98 Via Microsoft explorer and Signed In @ 23:43:29
Comments:
Your show is great. Very accurate and like the humor
along with the forecasts.
Brian Paine
of Lebanon, PA
surfed on in on Friday 1.16.98 and Signed In @ 21:54:13
Comments:
Have been a regular viewer since way back when. I'm
39 years old. Haven't missed too many shows in that time. When
I'm not home I will tape it. You guys are the best. Paul, Fred
and Joe Bastardi are favorites. The others are terrific too.
Hope to get an email from you. Plan to visit websight
frequently. Keep up the super weathercasting. Thankyou.
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Ed. Note: Thanks for making our day with your gracious words!
C.K. Bender of Chambersburg PA
Arrived on Friday 1.16.98 Via the PSU Website and Signed In @ 13:01:50
Comments:
I'm a loyal viewer- have been for years. A weather
maven, as it were. One thing I've wondered about is why there is
a blank space on your weather maps where Franklin County PA is
concerned? Can't you get somebody at Mont Alto campus to look at
a thermometer and give you a call? The Cumberland Valley feels
very left out.
Just a suggestion for Joe- your make-up person needs to give you
a little color! On camera you look like death warmed over...
I think an interesting feature would be how the mountains in PA
effect the storm tracks in the various regions of the state;
i.e., we only get serious snow here when storms track south and
come up and bury Washington/Baltimore. Just a suggestion.
Keep up the good work!
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Ed. Note: Thanks for your faithful viewership. Our routine that plots the temperatures at 5pm is automatic. We wish we could include local reports, but the deadlines are too tight to modify these charts. Remember that we have a 1.2 mile drive across campus to get to the studio on-time. Every second counts.
We'll let Joe know he needs some color. None of us use make-up! Thanks for your feature suggestion about the role of the mountains.
David J Bechtold
of Johnstown PA
Arrived on Thursday 1.15.98 Via the WW Guestbook and Signed In @ 15:37:05
Comments:
WW is always interesting. Do wish you'd give more
play to Johnstown--(we're not included in the Snowflake contest,
for example). Using 2284' Jtwn Airport data makes us look
chillier than most of the 1000'-1800' populated area hereabouts.
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Ed. Note: We would love to include Johnstown in the snowflake contest, but the airport stopped reporting snowfall a few years ago!
Martin M Pfautz
of Lebanon County
Arrived on Friday 1.9.98 and Signed In @ 10:57:29
Comments:
My wife and I really enjoyed the monolog that was
presented earlier this week by the young man on "El Nino". We
are completely turned off by all the media hype on this subject.
The evening show is always a must in our household.
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Ed. Note: Thanks for your kind words about our weather commentaries. We appreciate the opportunity and forum that these features afford us!!
Roberta Kleinman
of Lock Haven, PA
With a Website @ http://www.lhup.edu/~rkleinma
Arrived on Tuesday 12.16.97 and Signed In @ 20:23:03
Comments:
I watch your show when I am home at 5:30 on weekdays.
I particularly like your willingness to take credit when you're
right and blame when you are not. It's refreshing. My only
(minor) complaint is about your logo, the sun sandwiched between
two clouds. If that really were the case, I don't think we'd
have to worry about global warming.
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Ed. Note: Welcome to the world of icons. You are quite right, global warming would be the least of our problems. You should also have trouble with our raindrops...wrong shape and snowflakes..too ideal! It's only a representation, the real thing is much better!
Charlie Harford
of Emporium, Pa
Arrived on Monday 12.8.97 Via Webcrawler and Signed In @ 18:24:52
Comments:
I like your show, but the young lad you had on
tonight sounded rather nervous. He'll get over it.
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Ed. Note: We continue to believe in our newest forecasters, they are really superb predictors!
Calvin Cowart
of Ga.
Arrived on Sunday 12.7.97 Via Netscape and Signed In @ 15:11:06
Comments:
I want to upload an article on lightning. How do i do it?
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Ed. Note: You don't. Sorry, but we don't accept unsolicited materials for the Weather World website. However, if you have an article of your own which may be of interest to our visitors you may send it electronically or via snail mail to one of our producers for their personal consideration and perhaps one of them may find it of use to our general audience and recommend our Internet posting of it. We have considered forums for such activities in the past but not implemented any to date.... Steve
Sandi
of Lebanon
Arrived on Friday 11.28.97 and Signed In @ 09:47:22
Comments:
I love your Weather World show. My sister who lives
here in Pittsburgh would like to see your show in the Pittsburgh
area!
Joe-- your forecasts every morning in Lebanon bring a smile or a
laugh. Great way to start the day. Looking forward to your
views on the coming winter. I DO NOT WANT BIG SNOWSTORMS!!
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Ed. Note: Joe Snow knows!
Bill Bowers
of Enola PA
Arrived on Monday 11.24.97 Via the Meterology Homepage and Signed In @ 21:19:14
Comments:
We are avid watchers of Weather World. The forcasts
are clear, accurate and revelent to Pennsylvania. You guys do a
great job. One question I have is - where are the women? Surely
there are women in meterology at Penn State that could do the
Weather World show. The show gives grad students a great
opportunity to do forcasts and get experience in that area. Some
have gone on to the Weather Channel. I would like to see some
women meterologists get the chance to be on Weather World.
Thanks for your show and response.
Bill
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Ed. Note: Bill, we have open auditions twice a year for all of our graduate students (which includes about 15 -20 women) and we have yet to have one audition for the show. The first qualification must be that the presenter must be a good forecaster...this will not change...after that we will work with anyone! Sometimes we have undergraduates who are good presenters , but they do not have proper forecasting training. We will not experiment with novice forecasters on camera..... it is highly unprofessional. By the way, there are not that many women meteorologists on TV . Most of the women at the Weather Channel are good presenters, not meteorologists!
Alphie Snow Freak Cisar
of Fairfield PA
Arrived on Monday 11.10.97 and Signed In @ 16:56:36
Comments:
I love the 12 day forcast and was hoping to find it
on your homepage. I tend to get tied up at work on Fridays and
miss it. Is there a way I can fd the Friday show on the www.
Thanks it helps a lot to perdict where the snow is going to land
so friends and I can pack up the snowmobiles and bug out.
Thanks and keep up the good work. I would love to see more info
on snow I have a picture of the TV screen on my desk from a show
you did on winter of 93-94 and the PA mean annual snow fall.
Any place to find this info. Thanks again and of course THINK
SNOW . I know some of you are sun lovers and I do hold that
against you.
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Ed. Note: As a matter of policy we will not be placing the 12 Day Trends on the Home Page because more than a dozen new forecast models would have been run before our period even begins. We may be good, but we are not that good! For more interesting climate information, especially special events...check out the PA State Climatolologist Home Page. You can link through Personalities under Paul Knight.
Eric Axe
of RED LION, PA
Arrived on Monday 11.3.97 via aol and Signed In @ 00:50:36
Comments:
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, LEE GRENCI DID A SEGMENT ON PENNSYLVANIA'S ICE BOX. WHERE IN PA. WAS HE TALKING ABOUT? PLEASE RESPOND
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Ed. Note: Actually, it was Paul Knight who did that feature. He travelled across McKean County to Bradford, Kane, Lances Corner and Smethport. Only Smethport has a legitimate claim on the icebox with a reading of -42F in early January, 1905.
Steven Israel
of Mansfield, PA
Arrived on Thursday 10.30.97 via PSU homepage and Signed In @ 19:35:51
Comments:
Keep Up the Good Work!!
Debbi McDonald,
Librarian
of Linglestown Jr. High School
Arrived on Thursday 10.30.97 and Signed In @ 19:13:37
Comments:
Your web site is great. As a librarian, I am asked many unique reference questions-- to most of which I can find
the answers. I am stumped over this one: What is the term for the "study of thunder"? I would appreciate it if someone on the WW staff would respond. Thanks!
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Ed. Note: There is no special term to describe the study of thunder. It would fall into the general category of atmospheric acoustics. Thanks for your kind words about the page.
mike williams
of middletown
Arrived on Tuesday 10.28.97 via terry's links and Signed In @ 18:15:39
Comments:
Elliot abrams is the best weatherman in the world.
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Ed. Note: We also think Elliot is super!
Ruthann Williams
of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Wednesday 10.22.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 21:27:18
Comments:
I would like to let Joby know that I enjoy his forcasts as I am sure a lot of people do, so you don't have to be soooooo nervous any more. Just relax kid your doing fine. Keep up the good work!
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Ed. Note: We have informed Joby about your of confidence. Thanks.
Tina Meyers of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Monday 10.20.97 via Yahoo! and Signed In @ 06:15:37
Comments:
In regards to the "upside down" rainbow. A "normal"
rainbow has a curve that you can say the arc starts at the
bottom, goes up, around and down. The rainbow we saw started at
the top, arced downwards and went back up again...like the open
end of the arc was on top instead of on the bottom...the pot of
gold would have been in the clouds instead of on the
ground...does this help?
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Ed. Note: This helps some...it appears that you were seeing a portion of a halo caused by the bending of sunlight as it passed through ice crystals in a thin layer of clouds. Keep watching ...the pot of gold may be in your backyard soon!
D.K.Lundblad
of North America
Arrived on Saturday 10.11.97 and Signed In @ 11:48:22
Comments:
A young boy by the name of Jason from yo'lls area and related to my lovely spouse called this a.m. wanting to have
full details on your "snowflake contest;" or that of Penn State University. Do you have details?
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Ed. Note: Sure do. Here's the URL: Snowflake Contest 97. Give it a try!
Dave Hess of Europe?:
Arrived on Sunday 9.28.97 via Lpage.com? and Signed In @ 16:06:14
Comments:
hi there great show i support it as THE WEATHER FORECAST AND INFORMATION SHOW
just now i wish to ask again for some url's i've lost
where is it u ge t ur spagetti plots and other in depth info??
thanks
dave hess in orangeville pa
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Ed. Note: Here's the URL: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~map/maproom/ENS/ens.html ..... happy surfing!
Tina Meyers of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Thursday 9.25.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 06:53:51
Comments:
I signed in a few weeks ago or so. I had described a sight that we saw in Mill Hall. A rainbow was arched upside down instead of the usual "over the rainbow" type we see. Can you explain why this was upside down? And, Weather World has always been our ONLY weather source for PA. It is always accurate and dependable. We can always count on you...especially in the winter! Thank you for all the great work!
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Ed. Note: See below - we still don't know what you mean by an upside down rainbow
Putt of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Thursday 9.25.97 via Duh...Beyond Me! and Signed In @ 22:03:15
Comments:
I try to watch th show when I am home. I have
watched the show for years.
The 15 minute show appears to be long enough to get the
information I need.
Your attempt to contact the person is antartica was interesting.
I enjoy the segments inter-viewing different people.
Thanls for your help in allowing me to prepare for nect day, and
beyond.
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Ed. Note: We enjoyed the shortened interview with Matt Wolf in Antarctica...it was too bad we did not get the full-time with him. He may be on the program live with us in late December!
Sunny (yes, really)
of North America
With a Website @ Sunny's Awesome Webpage
Just Surfed On In! on Saturday 9.20.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 16:39:48
Comments:
Hey guys!
Maybe I'm just looking for something too simple, but
I've scanned several of these online weather sites and
still can't find a chart of typical weather in various
US cities. Everything seems so focused on the weather
at this particular nanosecond.
You see, I'm comparing graduate school locales and
have only a 1981 set of encyclopedia to give average
monthly hi/lo temperatures. These don't even provide
humidity levels or heat index / wind-chill factors.
Could you suggest a website for this sort of info?
Thanks,
sunshine (ename my ebuds call me on email)
Sunny Snaith (yes, really)
mailto:sunshine@techie.com
PS: The guestbook music gets really annoying after a
couple of minutes -- is it intended to encourage short
messages?
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Ed. Note: Concerning the climate information for possible grad school sites, check out: http:// www.ncdc.noaa.gov
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Ed. Note: (You should have signed up on Sunday.) Yes, the music is intended to shape the message -- short and sweet, or, uh, sunny.... Steve
Cheryl of Europe
With a Website @ Cheryl's Official Website
Just PowWowin' In! on Monday 9.15.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 19:43:51
Comments:
Hi! I'm a junior in High School in Maryland (near DC) and we were given a list of websites to visit, including
this one for Earth Science. The site is very easy to follow and contains tons of information. The only problem is that some of
the pictures are very large and take a long time to load up. Keep up the good work.
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Ed. Note: You can always select 'no load' on images from your browser..it helps things come in much faster...just a suggestion.
Ruthann Williams
of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Wednesday 9.10.97 via Net Search and Signed In @ 08:54:47
Comments:
Thanks guys! I really enjoy surfing this site! I
know I can depend
on your forcasts.
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Ed. Note: Glad to be here for you!
twmeyers of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Sunday 8.31.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 08:20:21
Comments:
Excellent site!
Tried to E-Mail around Memorial Day weekend, but all were out, I guess. A strange
thing we saw in Mill Hall, PA... an upside-down rainbow. We never saw one before.
What makes this rainbow upside? Thank you for your input. TMeyers P.S. We watch
your show always... the most accurate weather forecasting EVER!
Snowplowing/snowplows is our business and it would be a sin NOT to watch every
day (especially in the Winter)! We tell everyone... Watch WeatherWorld, they are "on
the money." Thank you for such accurate reports!
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Ed. Note: We are not exactly sure what you mean by an upside down rainbow. All rainbows must form an arc opposite the sun in the sky...From above, it's a circle, but we only see half of it...Keep watching and let us know if you see it again.
Kevin Carroll
of North America
With a Website @ Kevin Carroll's Web Page
Just Surfed On In! on Friday 8.29.97 and Signed In @ 18:19:00
Comments:
Hello, I am a graduate student at the University of Maryland. I am interested in
obtainning information on how our school can become involved in the National
Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest. As an undergraduate at Millersville
University of PA, it was very exciting to be involved in your contest (and I even won a
plaque, which helped :=). Eric Horst, from Millersville, referred me to this address.
Could you please e-mail me further information on how to become involved in your
contest and how we can get our individual forecasts to you (ie. is there a web site to
enter forecasts?)?
Thank you for your time, Kevin --
Kevin L. Carroll
Graduate Research Assistant Meteorologist
Department of Meteorology
University of Maryland
E-mail: carroll@atmos.umd.edu College Park, MD 20742
Kevin'sNumerical Model Page: http://www.erols.com/klc9986
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Ed. Note: We have passed along your information to the national chairmen of the Collegiate Forecasting Contest....best wishes on this year's competition.
Charles Engelberger
of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Tuesday 8.12.97 via Net Search and Signed In @ 21:47:47
Comments:
Please drop me
a line on E-Mail telling me if you got this because I'm new to this. I enjoy watching
your show every day.
THANK YOU
cengel@earth.sunlink.net
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Ed. Note: Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, but you should have gotten our e-mail by now.
Michael Szescila of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Sunday 8.10.97 via Word of Mouth and Signed In @ 22:45:58
Brian Etherton of Shhh...It's a Secret!
Arrived on Friday 8.8.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 13:12:42
Comments:
Hey there guys!
Just one comment- you have that spinning globe, but it's
not really spinning on it's axis, cause I got some
continent doing an end over end... that's not right!
Take care-
Brian E.
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Ed. Note: Well Brian, you got me going :>). The thing is, when we experience the web, we're not so much in this world, per se, as we are in the virtual, or at least our goal should be such. I see no logical reason why the virtual needs to replicate the real. That's why television exists, and yet it doesn't even fairly replicate the real world anymore. I'm personally against the notion of turning the Internet into everything we are familiar with in the real world. The challenge with creating this site in particular, is moving the medium of television into the virtual, not duplicating a television show by moving it onto the Internet. Weather World Online resembles the television show, but it is the virtual experience which should project, not a duplication of the television experience. It is therefore subject to a different set of rules -- or lack thereof. "But it's not really spinning on its axis...." - Creative license gives me the right to create with a perception from whatever position and angle I choose. Again, the virtual is free to replicate the real world or not, preferably not! I choose to have the planet spinning from beyond the confines of the real - that's my choice for aesthetics. But I might just as well choose to have it explode... the choice is mine. Because of the medium, it is the simulacrum, not the real, being presented here. From a design standpoint, this means less of an attempt at realism than might be readily expected. Didn't know all that decision-making went into a little GIF animation, huh? Not sure I did either, but that's how I seem to see it ;>). Steve
Tony Camilli of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Friday 7.18.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 20:08:32
Comments:
QUESTION TO: Paul Knight
PLEASE settle an ongoing dispute at SEVERAL of my nursing
homes. A weather facts and myths book has been passed
around, and it asks the following question. What occurs
first; lightning, thunder, or both at the same time.
The book says, they both happen at the same time. It continues
saying that you see the lightning before you hear the
thunder because the speed of light is faster than the
speed of sound.
I agree about the physics regarding
light and sound, BUT!! I think that the lightning occurs
first, even if only by a jillionth of a second! The
lightning must appear FIRST in order to heat the air,
then we hear the "sonic" boom from the expanding air
that was superheated by the intense elctrical discharge.
RIGHT? I know I may be splitting hairs here, but the
weather facts and myths book shouldn't say they happen
at the same time.
THANK YOU for your timely response!
A FAITHFUL VIEWER (especially when calling for snow!)
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Ed. Note: Lightning always occurs before the thunder. The intense heat from the lightning causes the air to expand thus creating a booming sound. Another hint is that sound travels slower than light, thus it is heard after. The only way to hear the thunder at the same time as the lightning strike is if you're hit, and it probably wouldn't register.... Paul
David Starzer of Pennsylvania
Just Surfed On In! on Monday 7.14.97 and Signed In @ 21:51:05
Comments:
I love your show and watch it whenever I can. I'm a meteo major at PSU, and will be at UPark starting this fall. I consider myself a weather nerd, not a weather twerp or weenie as I saw in another Guestbook entry. Keep up the good work guys.
Holly R. Stober of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Wednesday 7.2.97 via Net Search and Signed In @ 13:44:59
Comments:
My parents watch your show every day. I used to watch when I was little!
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Ed. Note: Uh, oh..I guess one of us is getting older.... Paul
Ted Reighard of Pennsylvania
With a Website @ http://www.paonline.com
Arrined on Wednesday 7.1.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 17:56:46
Comments:
Really enjoy your thorough and interesting program. My hobby is weather and motorcycling (touring beautiful Pa.) Good riding REQUIRES good weather !
Take care all ... -:)
TED
Lancaster County, Pa.
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Ed. Note: We hope you enjoy our 'events weather' and travel forecasts on Thursday during the good riding weather in the summer!.... Paul
Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania
Just Surfed On In! on Wednesday 6.4.97 and Signed In @ 22:09:49
Comments:
I never miss a show. My VCR is set for 5:45pm every day. My wife thinks I'm crazy.
I am employed as an Electrical Engineer, however, I feel that I made a mistake by
not choosing Meteorology as a major. Do you have any advice for a 30 year old closet meteorologist
thinking of returning to college?
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Ed. Note: Just keep watching, we'll keep feeding your habit!.... Paul
Roy Johnson of Pennsylvania
Just Surfed On In! on Thursday 5.29.97 and Signed In @ 13:51:19
Comments:
Watch your program WEATHER WORLD most every night and enjoy it very much. Looked in on your web page here looking for a simple 5 day forecast, and could not find it. Am I not looking in the right place or isn't there any?
Roy Johnson, State College
rhj@csrlink.net
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Ed. Note: Please look under Forecasts from the home page, Roy, and while you're at it, enjoy a couple of new links we put up there just this week so that you can have even more up-to-date regional weather information. Steve
Les Hurley of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Monday 5.26.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 19:57:33
Comments:
I have tried several times on as many days to access "Studio Virtual Tours". I get your notice that "You need Netscape 3 or Quick Time Plugins etc." I am using Netscape 3.0 And I also have both quicktime and quicktime32. Nonetheless, after downloading Studio Virtual Tours I get an error message, "The Plugin could not load Quick Time VR for Windows. Would you like to get Quick Time VR for windows now?" The first time this happened I clicked yes. What I received was another copy of Quick Time 32 which I then installed per instructions. I stil;l get the same error message.
What else do I have to do? I am running Windows 95.
Also, I just a moment ago I tried to enter Earth Web Java Chat. Netscape 3.0 supports Java but I got an error message telling me it could not connect from this web page. I think I am about to strike out! Please help.
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Ed. Note: Hopefully the sample setup instructions sent to you were helpful for the QuickTime VR - the link from our page now takes the visitor straight to the Quicktime VR page. Also, thanks for the tip on the change Earthweb made to their chat site, something which had rendered our page inaccessable lately. The problem has been fixed and we've enhanced the page -- go there and enjoy! Steve
John E. Bradley of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Tuesday 5.6.97 via Yahoo! and Signed In @ 10:11:40
Comments:
Dear Fred and Paul,
My family and I enjoy your program and "catch" it daily.
Could you explain how a high and low pressure area develops?
I'm sure the dynamics involved are simple once explained.
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Ed. Note: We wished it were simple to explain, but it is not....The pressure we measure at the earth's surface is the weight of the air above us (much like your weight when you stand on a scale) ....there are several things that will cause the weight of the air to change. You probably already know that warmer air weighs less than colder air and therefore has a higher surface pressure. If temperature were the only factor, this would be easy, but the air is also moving and at very high speeds aloft. Sometimes, the change of wind speed and direction with height favors rising air currents, sometimes sinking air currents. (by the way, take a glass filled with your favorite soft drink and put a straw in it, then blow hard across the top of the straw and watch what happens to the liquid in the straw!) These changing air currents aloft contribute a great deal to the change of air pressure at the surface. Meteorologists express these effects as convergence and divergence. When the air converges aloft, the surface pressure rises. When the air aloft diverges, the pressure at the ground falls. It is the accurate prediction of areas of convergence and divergence that challenges predictors each day! Paul
John Henry Riddlesberger of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Sunday 5.4.97 via Word of Mouth and Signed In @ 19:45:42
Comments:
I am a fairly regular viewer of WeatherWorld. Its a super program. Not only does one find out about the weather but you learn alot of other things along the way as well. I minored in Radio/Television broadcasting when I was going to Milllersville State College (fall'71-May'75). I am now a Mathematics teacher at Carlisle Senior High School. I love everything about your program except for one pet peeve of mine. You've got two guys that seem to insist upon waving to the camera and that blows my mind. No one, and I mean NO ONE in professional television EVER waves hi or good bye to the camera. Is there some tactful way you could tell John Niece and Elliot Abrams (sp?) to cut out that waving hi and goodbye. Its blows the whole show for me when they're on. For a presentation as up market as WeatherWorld is that kind of corn has got to go. Otherwise you have a top drawer program. Keep up the great work. I'm also partial to "30 year average" rather than "normal." Normal is a setting on the drier and hardly anything to do with living, life, or the weather.
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Ed. Note: We'll see that your comments are passed along.... Paul
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Ed. Note: Hi John. Nice to see you're still out there. You and I worked together as fellow broadcasters at WMSP in Harrisburg until it turned over to KISS and we kissed it goodbye back in the late 80s. I loved radio - thought I'd never leave - then this thing called the Internet came along and - I couldn't pass up an opportunity to help build it! The rest is history. I still have our old program guides and every now and then miss doing my Eine Kleine Nachtmusik show. Time marches on and we must move on. Thanks for your comments. It's good to hear from you.... Steve
David Jones of North America
Arrived on Monday 4.28.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 13:57:20
Comments:
I've been a WeatherWorld viewer since my wife and I moved to Harrisburg in 1989. I couldn't believe there was a 15-minute weather program on and kept wondering WHY. But now I've gotten several people in the office (The Patriot-News sports department) hooked on "the Weather Geeks" and my boss now swears by your forecasts. The first time he saw the show was March '93 when Paul and Fred were getting geared up for the "Blizzard of the Century" and Fred described it as "nothing less than a snowicane." In addition, a friend from my old stomping grounds in Columbus, whose father was the longtime meteorologist for WBNS (Channel 10) has become a cult fan of yours. He thinks it's hilarious that Lee always rhythmically taps the set top when he's introduced. Both of us are huge fans of "Wacky Joe Bastardi." We're waiting for a 60-minute VHS "Best of WeatherWorld" collector's tape including dramatic moments in the show's history, including the eves of the big storms in Mar.'93! and Jan.'96. In short, we need professional help.
Cheers.
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Ed. Note: Your kind comments are most refreshing and your memory is remarkable!.... Paul
Thomas R. Fiorey of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Sunday 4.27.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 18:32:42
Comments:
Best weather show on TV for highly accurate PA weather. 15 minute show gives much more detailed info than a 5
minute regular TV station weather program. You interviewed me once on the PSU Campus during the
craft show and I still see the film clip with my answer
to your question on lightning. Stay loose and keep the weather coming!
trf
Eric E. Harry of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Friday 4.11.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 11:08:11
Comments:
The most accurate weather anywhere. I just wish travel forecast covered more than New England.
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Ed. Note: Our Thursday travel maps cover the region from the eastern Dakotas to the Gulf States and east to the Atlantic Seaboard.... Paul
Janet McQuown of Pennsylvania
Just Surfed On In! on Friday 4.4.97 and Signed In @ 21:25:39
Comments:
Hi, I always wondered how to get in touch with you guys! The one time you gave an E-mail address I didn't have a pencil. Can anyone finish this rhyme for me?
Mares tails and mackerel scales........ (having to do with cloud formations and predicting rain.)
Thanks
Janet McQuown
jsmcq.penn.com
Punxsutawney, PA
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Ed. Note: Makes tall ships lower their sails.... Paul
Robert Kuhn of Pennsylvania
With a Website @ http://home.earthlink.net/~kuhnrl/
Arrived on Wednesday 4.2.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 12:02:57
Comments:
I stopped loading your page before I ever saw the weather, because your numerous graphics take too long to load.
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Ed. Note: Zooming down the information highway, eh, Robert...?
Stephen Pitts of North America
Just Surfed On In! on Tuesday 3.25.97 and Signed In @ 20:45:22
Lew Kauffman of Pennsylvania
Arrived on Wednesday 3.19.97 via Netscape and Signed In @ 11:28:56
Comments:
Fred & Paul-
When will the Weather World Web Site be updated on a regular basis for local/state weather forecasts?
It seems that everytime I log on, the weather information is at least several days old!
Is this your way of making sure I watch Weather World every night?
Tom Evanosky of Oz
Arrived on Tuesday 3.18.97 via (Duh...Beyond Me!) and Signed In @ 15:33:15
Comments:
#1 - Tell Bastardi to buy a clothes iron
#2 - Tell Grenci to loosen up that elbow (his map-pointing technique needs help!)
#3 - The rest of you guyz are cool, except my wife thinks that all of you, and I , are a bunch of weather twerps!
#4 - Let's get those extended forecast maps and 12 day trends maps onto your WxWorld Page.
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Ed. Note: Your comments to Bastardi and Grenci will be passed along...We are all weather weenies...(not twerps) ...and the extended forecast maps are on the home page under the FORECAST header... Paul
Pam Kane of Cloudminders Kite Shoppe in Oz
Arrived on Thursday 3.13.97 via Net Search and Signed In @ 17:05:02
Comments:
We have a kite fly scheduled for Sunday March 16th, hope
you will predict breezy weather. The kite fly will start at 2:00pm and is going to be held at Raystown Lake, 7 points Huntingdon. It might make some nice video for your scenes from Pa. segment. Feel free to contact me at the above adress. Ask for Pam Kane.
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