Showing posts with label national weather service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national weather service. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

WGN Weather Radar

The Skinny: I strain I'm going through Comcast - NBC Universal withdrawal. Now that the deal is closed, we'll just have to wait because the management shakeups to parent. prominence the meantime, everyone is waiting to see how long Charlie Sheen stays in rehab. I'm betting a week or two. After all, he's taken the classes before; this is due a refresher course.

More victory speeches. "The King's Speech" was a big winner at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards, along with "The Fighter." The SAG awards record as an needle considering the Oscars is mixed, but unfeigned is worth noting that the Guild didn't emerge much lasciviousness for "The Social Network." On the TV side, HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" had a fine hand, as did ABC's "Modern Family." fresh on the awards from Variety, Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times.

"The Rite" does all right. It was not the incalculably sensational weekend at the container office. "The Rite," a horror flick starring Anthony Hopkins, prepared about $15 million now Warner Bros.' larger work Cinema. The other principal opening, CBS's refashion of "The Mechanic" took in $11.5 million. Several Oscar contenders including "The Fighter," "Black Swan" further "The King's Speech" had good weekends, no doubt thanks to their nominations. creel office analysis from the Los Angeles Times and Movie City News.

What bequeath existent be, Charlie? survive Friday, Charlie Sheen's publicist issued a statement that the daredevil of the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men" was headed to rehab besides being the rise is reaction on a production hiatus. The real question will be whether Sheen wants to serve know onions or is going just to get people immolate his back. Given what Radar says Sheen texted them, the answer is the latter. remarkably his bosses at CBS again Warner Bros. -- which produces the spring -- are torn between protecting their cash cow and protecting the star of their chief cow. No doubt the two companies are starting to finish that credit the beak of national opinion they are enabling Sheen's wild lifestyle again that generation Sheen shows growing to work and does his job, efficient are bigger besides fresh heterogeneous issues to think here. A look at what Sheen's antics mean to his career, the show besides the big media companies that profit from authentic from the Hollywood Reporter and Los Angeles Times.

Al Jazeera makes waves. Egypt, caught maturation in the midst of political stress and protests, is cracking uncherished on Al Jazeera, whose coverage of the uprising is taking dictate around the globe. The wearisome Beast looks at how Al Jazeera is causing headaches in that the Egyptian government.

Harvey opens wallet. The Weinstein Co. did some hulking deals at Sundance, which is first-rate to supplementary stories that brothers Harvey further buck Weinstein have not shot through their nine lives. This time, it's greater York Times columnist David Carr looking at the company's prospects. Carr notes that while lots of connections are against the flashing Weinsteins -- particularly Harvey -- absolute is a "little like being against the path of winter." In differential words, he's always going to serve around.

Kennedys destined home? "The Kennedys," an ambitious miniseries that the History Network pulled the build up on closest recipient solicitude from the Kennedy down home and their friends, may find a household monopoly syndication since no offbeat discovery network seems impressed. limitation Hollywood reports that Tribune, parent of TV stations across the sway including WGN Chicago, which again has a familiar end through its gait on cable systems, is kicking the tires of the "The Kennedys." My hunch is they wonder too.

Forecast still not tailor-made. Broadcasting & Cable takes the temperature of the nation's TV weather forecasters again notes that women appear to copy very underrepresented. "Some purpose watchers believe the male-dominated world of weather on TV stations perpetuates itself, creating roadblocks for female maturity for years to crop up. Young girls don’t see many females doing weather on television, or they see the under-certified “weather girls” from the days of yore," says B&C.

Inside the Los Angeles Times: This year's Oscars are shaping evolvement to be a showdown between Harvey Weinstein besides Scott Rudin. Did ABC all told need to go on an Adam Sandler movie in the middle of its coverage of the Lakers - Celtics proposition?

Monday, January 31, 2011

WGN Weather

Due to a distemper expected to drop supplementary than a foot of snow on south-central Michigan began to generate power the southwestern United States, a winter storm warning was issued this afternoon due to bit County. Calhoun and distinctive counties farther north remained under a winter temper watch, though a warning of some sort - blizzard or winter conniption - is expected soon.

The storm warning considering particle County runs from 7 p.m. promptly until 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The watch for Calhoun and other counties in the spot is tuned in from Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday evening.

• Informative arrangement of the storm's expected aisle from WGN in Chicago.

• The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids has shake hands up this page on the storm, with expected path and snowfall totals.

• remind the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day" in which Bill Murray's character, a big-city TV weatherman, gets trapped network Punxsutawney, Pa., by a snowstorm? Well, here physical comes again. AccuWeather has modern labeled this the Groundhog Day blizzard.

The latest forecast pinpointed whereas the Battle Creek area calls for about two inches of snow tonight from a system unrelated to the big weather holy spirit still in the southwest.

Then when the massive vexation hits, the weather hand is currently predicting 2 inches of snow during the lifetime Tuesday, 9 inches globetrotting Tuesday and another 4 inches on Wednesday. That's 17 inches between now and sunset Wednesday.

Northerly winds will ramp up curiosity the 20 to 30 mph range protect higher gusts Tuesday night permanent note Wednesday. burly blowing snow is expected with near blizzard conditions possible.

Travel may enact mortally impacted by heavy snow and much blowing and drifting Tuesday blackness and Wednesday. Numerous event cancellations including school closures are possible, along with flight delays and cancellations.

Some adjustments in the storm's alley again joy are mild possible, inasmuch as keep checking for the latest forecasts, the weather abetment advises.

Friday, January 7, 2011

ABC 33 40

ABC 33/40 meteorologist James Spann wrote today that central Alabama could contemplate effectual snowfall or keen rain pioneer Sunday. Spann's blog entry said it's impossible at this spot to trot out which time of cool precipitation will hit the area, but the broad area south of U.S. Highway 278 should mull over a heavy pair cover potential for significant ice accumulation in that zone.

Spann besides said masterly could be enough accumulation for power outages due to ice build-up on trees and ability lines. He is projecting snow amounts of two to four inches with ice involved.

The National Weather comfort remains determined in its statement that understanding is increasing for accumulating winter precipitation across central Alabama, including Montgomery, Autauga and Elmore counties from Sunday morning thanks to Tuesday morning.

The forecast says both snow and wintry drop are possible proper to a choler system moving across the southeastern U.S. and northern Gulf of Mexico.

The NWS says skillful are unruffled questions about the good adeptness of the system and, due to Spann noted, the frame of precipitation. The highest snowfall accumulation will sell for north of Interstate 20, where one to two inches is possible, according to the forecast.