***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

nrg4isu

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VPN is your friend when traveling. Turn off the GPS in your device and you’ll get national channels. Still won’t get locals, but it’s a start.
So I have a private VPN. And I verified that my external IP is showing as if I'm at home. However, once I signed into Hulu, it was showing clearly stuff more tailored for Mexico. We'll just have to see
 

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So I have a private VPN. And I verified that my external IP is showing as if I'm at home. However, once I signed into Hulu, it was showing clearly stuff more tailored for Mexico. We'll just have to see

Did you turn off your GPS? YTTV will use both. Not sure about Hulu.
 
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It was nice enough yesterday that one of my dogs was chilling in a snow pile.
 

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Just so everyone is clued into the weird progression of posts - there was a discussion that was removed because it was political (cave).

Being a discussion about weather, although the changes made were definitely political, I feel like it's important to know that a change has in fact happened.
To keep it out of politics, I'll just link sources https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-noaa-cuts-climate
 
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Just so everyone is clued into the weird progression of posts - there was a discussion that was removed because it was political (cave).

Being a discussion about weather, although the changes made were definitely political, I feel like it's important to know that a change has in fact happened.
To keep it out of politics, I'll just link sources https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-noaa-cuts-climate
Now that's a solid source if you want to keep it out of the cave....
 

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Just so everyone is clued into the weird progression of posts - there was a discussion that was removed because it was political (cave).

Being a discussion about weather, although the changes made were definitely political, I feel like it's important to know that a change has in fact happened.
To keep it out of politics, I'll just link sources https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-noaa-cuts-climate
So I posted a screenshot of Al Roker about NOAA reductions and that is too political?
 

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So I posted a screenshot of Al Roker about NOAA reductions and that is too political?
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Time to get a weather rock, I guess.


So, this is a stretch - but taking that idea (the idea that weather info should be available always) I've been thinking about a software project.

It would be cool to create an open source "federated/distributed" weather application. I'm thinking sorta a mix between seti@home meets torrents.

Many many people have their own weather stations or sensors. Many of the existing weather satellites are "open channels" meaning you can pull data with your own antenna.

What we need to do is distribute the processing, aggregation and hosting. I'm not aware of other projects like this that currently exist, but it seems like a good idea.
 

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Better yet when staffing + cost means the rural areas are the first left twisting in the wind, as it were, when it comes to tornado warnings. A little FA, a little FO.
Don't worry warnings will be "Brought to you by Carl's Jr......I mean Starlink."