Very Early 2/21 Weather Thread

[cyfanatic]

Quite the competition over there. KGAN or KCRG?

LOL...yeah...local TV can be entertaining for who they hire...not how good they do their jobs. Beth Malicki (KCRG) is easy to watch (very pretty)...and I do enjoy the KCRG weather team...other than that...KWWL is the best "news" program in eastern Iowa.

 

[cyfanatic]

His GFS models are 120 hours (5 days) out, and his NAM models are 84 hours (3.5 days) out.

Thanks! I had the same question that snowcraig had!

 

[ISUAlum05]

LOL...yeah...local TV can be entertaining for who they hire...not how good they do their jobs. Beth Malicki (KCRG) is easy to watch (very pretty)...and I do enjoy the KCRG weather team...other than that...KWWL is the best "news" program in eastern Iowa.

Really? I have never heard anyone say they liked KWWL. I think of it as the 'ghetto' news station. I suppose I'd like it if I lived in Waterloo.

 

[cyfanatic]

Really? I have never heard anyone say they liked KWWL. I think of it as the 'ghetto' news station. I suppose I'd like it if I lived in Waterloo.

Since they don't originate from CR and don't solely focus on CR most in CR won't watch it. But Ron Steele is a great reporter and has been there forever. They seem to have a serious "buy-in" to the state and are very loyal to their employees. They also focus a bit more on news rather than glamor stories. It will be interesting to see how that station transitions when Ron Steele retires. The guy just loves Eastern Iowa (I am speaking of the region, not the school).

 

[FDWxMan]

His GFS models are 120 hours (5 days) out, and his NAM models are 84 hours (3.5 days) out.

The GFS actually goes out 16 days (384 hours) so there are a couple other places you can grab model predictions past that.

Here is one site, although it is not put into nice maps like the Earl Barker site:
Bufkit and Cobb Precipitation Type Data Available from NWS Des Moines

If you scroll down on that page you will find two tables. "Cobb Precipitation Type (ver 5.7) Output (NAM)" and one below that for GFS.

For Des Moines click on "KDSM" in the current run column. Again, this will be uglier than what you see on the Earl pages, but it will take you out 180 hours.

"TotSN" column is the one you want to track.

Also, instead of KDSM you can select a few other sites, or click "-1" "-2" etc to look back at previous runs of the GFS model to see how consistent it has been.

 

[FDWxMan]

Links straight to KDSM tables.

GFS output 180 hours

NAM Output 84 hours

 

[chuckd4735]

Links straight to KDSM tables.

GFS output 180 hours

NAM Output 84 hours

Give us your forecast dude!

 

[wxman1]

KCRG is the worst weather team out there, period. They are simply awful.

I am completely biased since I used to intern at KCRG but to think KCRG is anything but the best in that market is stuoid. KWWL is great as well...then there is KGAN.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

I am completely biased since I used to intern at KCRG but to think KCRG is anything but the best in that market is stuoid. KWWL is great as well...then there is KGAN.

I probably overstated, but during the 'blizzard' in December they kept on insisting that we were going to get 8 more inches of snow or something like that when the radar clearly showed that the snow was ending. It just made me feel like they were more interested in the hype than being accurate.

 

[FDWxMan]

Give us your forecast dude!

Too early!

I'll give an off the record early prediction after the noon show, by about 2. That way I can see the 12z GFS and 12z Euro.

 

[agrabes]

I am completely biased since I used to intern at KCRG but to think KCRG is anything but the best in that market is stuoid. KWWL is great as well...then there is KGAN.

"Taaabloid News, at CBS 2". Ugh, though I rarely watch the news the one time I did tune in to KGAN they were running a story about how some guy was caught hitting on some guys daughter and the problems that ensued.

 

[ISUAlum05]

I think everyone can agree that KGAN is terrible. I admit I probably just don't like KWWL because it's not out of CR. Not weather related, but KCRG's new sports woman is God awful.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

Agreed that KCRG news is good. Just not their weather.

 

[wartknight]

Denny Frary still on KCRG?

 

[ISUAlum05]

Denny Frary still on KCRG?

Nope. Joe Winters has been the head honcho for several years now.

 

[wxman1]

Denny Frary still on KCRG?

Haha he retired back in 05 or 06.

 

[cmjh10]

I think everyone can agree that KGAN is terrible. I admit I probably just don't like KWWL because it's not out of CR. Not weather related, but KCRG's new sports woman is God awful.

She should have never been hired, Im sorry. She is the worst reporter I have ever seen.

 

[KidSilverhair]

I think everyone can agree that KGAN is terrible. I admit I probably just don't like KWWL because it's not out of CR. Not weather related, but KCRG's new sports woman is God awful.

You talking about Chelsi? Cause she's already gone. It took a few months, but KCRG finally came around to the realization that she wasn't ready for the show.As if Cedar Rapids TV news can really be called "The Show" - but whatever they are, she wasn't ready for it.

 

[cmjh10]

You talking about Chelsi? Cause she's already gone. It took a few months, but KCRG finally came around to the realization that she wasn't ready for the show.As if Cedar Rapids TV news can really be called "The Show" - but whatever they are, she wasn't ready for it.

Really?!?!? Thats great, I can watch sports when I go back home now!

 

[wartknight]

Haha he retired back in 05 or 06.

I moved out of the market in '03. When "Anchorman" came out I thought it was about Bruce Aune