Skip Rigney

I'm interested in weather, the ocean, history, culture, rural America, small towns, books, movies, hiking, mountains, and Jesus - hopefully not in that order.

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@SteveWAFB Yes. Correct the teacher.

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@EWErickson @ComfortablySmug For graphics creation and image modification ChatGPT and Gemini are both vastly superior to Claude. I have been using all three for almost six months now.

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@NWSNewOrleans pea to dime sized hail 4 miles east of Picayune from 7:35 to 7:38 PM.

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@roddreher Absolutely right. I live 25 miles inland in Mississippi, and I say I live in "West Florida" (a name with history). Those of us from Baton Rouge through the Fla. Panhandle have more in common than with our neighbors in the Deep South. More Catholic influence, more Gulf cnxns.

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@BrilliantMaps You are absolutely right about the boundaries of the Gulf Coast region. I live 25 miles inland in Mississippi, and refer to us as living in "West Florida" (a name with history). Baton Rouge through the Fla. Panhandle has more in common than with our neighbors in the Deep South.

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@drantbradley @edstetzer How do you know he didn't have any male friends?

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@RussLatino @Lane_Kiffin But, even if he isn't allowed to coach in the SEC championship game and the CFP, Ole Miss will have an abysmal upcoming recruiting period. Why not go for broke and try to cash in on the only championship shots that Ole Miss has had in years or will have for several more?

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@IVMiles 39. Really.

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@NSIDC I tried it on two different browsers (Safari and Brave). It hung up "loading data," and the map window in Safari was very narrow.

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@InezFeltscher I hope someone who knows her resists the urge to run in the other direction, and instead shows her the love of Christ, and tells her that He died to save sinners like us.

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@ZackFradellaWx Looks like the models have been backing off on how much cool air gets to south LA/MS—maybe only 60s now instead of 50s for lows?

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Jaw-dropping drone footage captures the aftermath of a massive tornado in Tylertown, MS, showcasing the extensive damage left behind.

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@NWSNewOrleans 4.6 inches, 3 miles east of Picayune. Measured on two separate snowboards that were each cleared twice during the course of the day. Snow started around 5:30 AM and ended at 4:30 PM.

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@FerragamoWx NOAA NCEI has been doing a very similar 1950-present version for a number of years. This is through 2022. I also have one from back in 2012.

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Crazy intensification. But, if the shear forecast verifies, an impressive collapse in Milton's max winds is likely just before landfall. HAFS-B has Vmax 175 kt early Wed AM, but 80 kt just before landfall Wed night. But wind field will expand, supporting a horrific surge. #Milton

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@JeremyDeHart53d A *peak* surge of 10-12 ft is likely *somewhere* in the area highlighted by NHC. But, as NHC says on their inundation page, there is a 10% chance of this value at a given location. Gotta evacuate those areas, but 90% chance of less than *peak* surge at a given point in the areas.

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@reply671x @burgwx In coastal Mississippi, where there aren't any levees, Katrina's surge (up to 28ft) was catastrophic. It's a shame how often the 170 Mississippi surge victims of Katrina are forgotten. Even tho' Katrina was weakening, its large size produced record storm surge in Mississippi.

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@ZackFradellaWx I thought hurricane warnings were for sustained winds of 75+, not gusts.

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@NWS I wish this "current dew point" map was available all the time.

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@alexandracranfo @WWLTV Fantastic look at the niche topic of "when is summer"! Look at this analysis from Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49 which gives NOLA summer as Jun8-Sep5 ("90-day" method) or May14-Oct4 ("quartile" method; feels more like reality most years!): https://t.co/f0jLMZVtOq