Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Quoting CosmicEvents:
Not this year, but it's just a matter of time before Bain Capital outsources the blog commenting to China/India, where they can blog faster and cheaper......

dude, really?

Quoting GeorgiaStormz:


dude, really?

Give him credit for creativity.

Quoting Ameister12:
People are worrying that WU is going to change for the worse. They probably should read this section again.


"The Weather Channel is committed to keeping the Weather Underground brand and the web site in its current form. Weather Underground CEO Alan Steremberg will remain in charge, and our meteorologists and developers will continue to create the ground-breaking weather products that we're renowned for."

Calm down. WU isn't gonna change.

Wow, another voice of reason....

Ok, plus this post if you dont see this merge as being bad.

Quoting jeffs713:
Give him credit for creativity.

k

Quoting JeffMasters:


I expect there will be an increase in traffic (and potentially trolls) on my blog in the coming weeks. Last I saw, the timetable was to put my blog on weather.com by July 25. I expect there will be no comments allowed there at first, but don't know for sure. I don't know what kind of cross-linking will occur from weather.com to WU; I suspect not much this year.

Jeff Masters

LOL! That was great Doc! No matter how I feel about TWC it doesn't matter. All that matters is that you get the respect you and this blog deserves. Hopefully you and your staff are getting paid nicely now.

A very big day indeed - Congratulations!

Quoting CosmicEvents:
Not this year, but it's just a matter of time before Bain Capital outsources the blog commenting to China/India, where they can blog faster and cheaper......

My name is Peggy

Quoting JeffMasters:


I expect there will be an increase in traffic (and potentially trolls) on my blog in the coming weeks. Last I saw, the timetable was to put my blog on weather.com by July 25. I expect there will be no comments allowed there at first, but don't know for sure. I don't know what kind of cross-linking will occur from weather.com to WU; I suspect not much this year.

Jeff Masters

best of luck....maybe someone will invent troll spray by then....

You guys are like a bunch of screaming toddlers.

What happened to the intellectuals on here

you are just viewing this through old biases built off a few blown forecast, the superiority or our knowlege to TWC programming, and a few TWC jokes.
Try to be objective

this is worse than when wendy's bought arbies, and arbies was supposed to become a clown place

Quoting GeorgiaStormz:



Wow, another voice of reason....

Ok, plus this post if you dont see this merge as being bad.

This is telling
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353. GeorgiaStormz 7:52 PM GMT on July 02, 2012 +0
Quoting Ameister12:
People are worrying that WU is going to change for the worse. They probably should read this section again.


"The Weather Channel is committed to keeping the Weather Underground brand and the web site in its current form. Weather Underground CEO Alan Steremberg will remain in charge, and our meteorologists and developers will continue to create the ground-breaking weather products that we're renowned for."

Calm down. WU isn't gonna change.




Wow, another voice of reason....

Ok, plus this post if you dont see this merge as being bad.

Quoting sunlakedude:
So there won't be any changes? Take it from someone who has worked for companies that were bought out by other companies, that's what they always say. But in a year or two they will turn your company upside down and you won't want to work for it. The $5 annual subscription fee will become $25 and you'll still have to endure pop-ups that get by even the best pop-up blockers. Once that happens, I'm outta here. I wish it were not so, but it is.

Yes, THIS. No disrespect to Dr. Masters or any of the WU team. In fact quite the contrary - the pessimism about the future of WU is precisely BECAUSE the founders will not have as much say in its direction. We could trust that the old team had our best interests at heart. We cannot say with any certainty that will continue to be the case in a year or two. I will remain a member unless and until those changes start trickling down.

I was deeply upset when I saw that wunderground was sold to TWC. TWC no longer puts emphasis on the weather the way they used to. Hopefully this will not affect the design of the wunderground website.

I cannot stand the Weather.com website because it is very hard to navigate, locations of certain features constantly change, and the ad's take over your PC. Every time I get ready to click on a map an ad pops up right as I am clicking. Then I have to wait for the ad to close so I can try again.

What will this mean for those of us that get free membership for streaming weather station data? Will the wunderground app still work?

Quoting FtMyersgal:


My name is Peggy

trasnfer

Not to often you see Doc's blog so active when the tropics are quiet.

Quoting GeorgiaStormz:
You guys are like a bunch of screaming toddlers.

What happened to the intellectuals on here

im still here

If Bain Capital owns WU, then look for half your staff to be fired and the rest of the work outsourced. You'll be kept around and have to pay them gargantuan management fees, then leverage yourself to pay them back for buying you.

When they do so, just start a new blog and a lot of us may follow you.

I dont like the TWC website now because i actually have to update my Java and stuff.
lol

Quoting CosmicEvents:
Not this year, but it's just a matter of time before Bain Capital outsources the blog commenting to China/India, where they can blog faster and cheaper....

Quoting FtMyersgal:


My name is Peggy

and I am From Mumbai

Quoting jeffs713:
First off, if you have a storm surge coming towards you anything close to your estimated elevation, you should be getting out (since you're likely in an evac area anyway). Secondly, just because it hasn't flooded in xxx years means very little. When Ike hit, Houston had not been hit by a hurricane since 1983. Georgia hasn't been hit in something like 100 years. Doesn't mean it won't happen.

And finally, if your elevation is, for example, 15 feet, and there is a storm surge of 12 feet expected... you need to remember that the storm surge height is the MEDIAN height of the water. It doesn't account for waves at all.

Its a vacation house, it snot like your going to want to be there if there is a storm. But it is not like everyone know, my house is x.xxx ft above sealevel. so if they say its 9 ft surge, people don't know, especially in the South where the soastal plain is 40 miles inland. and a 9 foot surge goes 2 miles inland.

I gave up on the weather channel about 5 years ago and went with weather underground. The weather channel was more interested in commerical aspect and not the local aspect of weather. I found their information to be "TOO GENERAL" for the local area. Weather underground always stayed with the local aspect and had more choices for the local aspect. I hope this is not a sad day for weather underground. If you follow in WC footsteps, it will be a short history for Weather Underground.

i love when dr m Ignores my posts whats try one more time


will the blogs be geting a face lift and will there be new toys added or re move?

If there isn't going to be any changes, then what is the point of buying WU? It's probably going to go through some, at the least, slight changes.

Quoting NavarreMark:
Even more people can witness the daily "whos a troll", "your a troll", "report and ignore" rituals by the same people over and over. LOL

i seriously doubt blog membership will increase any time soon

Quoting JeffMasters:


Sure. My wife's not too happy with the sale, for some of the reasons y'all have expressed here. But change is the only constant in life, and after 17 years, I'm ready to be done managing the company. I want to focus on reaching as many people as I can with the message that we have pushed our climate to a new, more dangerous state. We'd better start taking strong action to prepare for what's coming.

Jeff Masters

WOAH usually if the wife says no, Its a definite no! howd you manage to get it through her Doc?

Quoting Articuno:
If there isn't going to be any changes, then what is the point of buying WU? It's probably going to go through some, at the least, slight changes.

He told you the point.
GO back and read it. Again

Quoting JeffMasters:


Sure. My wife's not too happy with the sale, for some of the reasons y'all have expressed here. But change is the only constant in life, and after 17 years, I'm ready to be done managing the company. I want to focus on reaching as many people as I can with the message that we have pushed our climate to a new, more dangerous state. We'd better start taking strong action to prepare for what's coming.

Jeff Masters

Ok, now im sure this is a mistake
When wife aint happy, nobody is happy.

Quoting GeorgiaStormz:


i seriously doubt blog membership will increase any time soon

doc thinks it will.

I'm thinking a lot of people just read the title of the blog and starting commenting instead of reading the whole thing.

Quoting JeffMasters:


Everything on the WU site will remain as-is, including the no-ads option.

Jeff Masters

That's good to hear. Hope it will continue that way. I would hate to not have access to NEXRAD or TDWR sites any longer. Many times govt run sites don't like the 'commercial' connection.

If this works, congratulations to all involved.

TWC. I will volunteer (for a reasonable fee) to cover any storms heading into the Florida Big Bend region from the coast if you supply me with the truck, a crew, and satellite feed............

Quoting weatherh98:


doc thinks it will.

he doesnt know yet

...and now back to Jim Cantore, reporting from Shower Curtain, FL!

Quoting GeorgiaStormz:


looks like ill be in DC this weekend, where should i go besides the museums

Exciting!.The zoo is a nice place to go it's for free(watch out for those high priced foods,they have other places to eat at across the street including 7 eleven just right outside the zoo entrance).I like to go to the wharf on the water front down by the Phillips restaurants.China town is another good place to spend time at(the Verizon center is located down there).We have Union station Tinley Town and Dupont circle.Some old historic houses are located down in those places if you look hard enough.And of course visit our traditional land marks....Not to far from downtown D.C is a mall called Pentagon city(actually located in V.A but it's right across the water).Have fun I can't explain it all in one post.

Quoting GeorgiaStormz:


He told you the point.
GO back and read it. Again

...

well, with that i flip on weather center live

It's hard to believe I have been using Wunderground and its predecessor site for over 17 years. I first found the site during the active 1995 hurricane season, when it was still hosted at the University of Michigan. I can still remember the cirrus.sprl address that I had to type in on a dialup connection. Not sure what the future will bring, but I hope the focus on research and personal input from its users will continue. The value of the PWS database is profound and I am proud to have been a participant in providing data for over a decade. Godspeed, Wunderground.

anti.gw.group....http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com /2012/07/02/joe-bastardi-puts-recent-extreme-weath er-in-perspective/....until.we.see.a.water.level.c hange.still.not.sure

Quoting Ameister12:
I'm thinking a lot of people just read the title of the blog and starting commenting instead of reading the whole thing.

i KNOW.

we are averaging about a comment every 15secs, the initial shock should be abating now

Quoting WxGeekVA:
...and now back to Jim Cantore, reporting from Shower Curtain, FL!

Reported!

Quoting WxGeekVA:
...and now back to Jim Cantore, reporting from Shower Curtain, FL!

..and we go first to Jim Cantore, standing right inside a Hebert Box. Jim, are those tunnels I see in the box?"

Quoting weathermanwannabe:
TWC. I will volunteer (for a reasonable fee) to cover any storms heading into the Florida Big Bend region from the coast if you supply me with the truck, a crew, and satellite feed............

Ill cover N GA severe weather, but im more likely to make the storms die with my kind of luck

Quoting WxGeekVA:
...and now back to Jim Cantore, reporting from Shower Curtain, FL!

Miami that is. LOL!!!

Quoting WxGeekVA:
...and now back to Jim Cantore, reporting from Shower Curtain, FL!

What is the shower curtain joke, i still dont get it

So what's in it for the Weather Channel Companies?

Quoting weathermanwannabe:
TWC. I will volunteer (for a reasonable fee) to cover any storms heading into the Florida Big Bend region from the coast if you supply me with the truck, a crew, and satellite feed............

I'll do the same for North Atlanta...

Quoting weatherh98:


What is the shower curtain joke, i still dont get it

JFV weather reporting from his bathroom weather office back in the day.