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paints

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That was weird...
« on: January 23, 2019, 09:00:44 pm »
I was doing the PTC, and one of the four pages I visited was Weather.
I noticed it had a forecast at the bottom that said "Rain starting in 73 minutes."

73 minutes later, it's raining...

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2019, 09:42:30 pm »
Who needs a weatherman Paints!!

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2019, 11:27:45 pm »
That is weird that it had it down to the exact minute.  So now you do not have to watch the weather reports, just this.  LOL

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2019, 05:37:29 am »
I was doing the PTC, and one of the four pages I visited was Weather.
I noticed it had a forecast at the bottom that said "Rain starting in 73 minutes."

73 minutes later, it's raining...

If you get the weather channel app it does that. You get notifications saying rain will begin at such and such a time. Most of the time it is right on.  It isn't as scary as people want to get freaked out about. They have radar and can see how fast it is moving and the direction.  They have your location if that is enabled on your phone and can see when the system will be at your location.

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2019, 09:44:31 am »
I agree, but I don't pay much attention. If I had to worry about what time it would start raining, I sure would not be living in Oregon.

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2019, 10:32:45 am »
Ok, that was very precise.

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2019, 10:57:57 am »
I was doing the PTC, and one of the four pages I visited was Weather.
I noticed it had a forecast at the bottom that said "Rain starting in 73 minutes."

73 minutes later, it's raining...
That is pretty neat isn't it?  I have a weather app on my phone that I use numerous times every day.  It has the hour by hour forecast and the temperature.  Updates to the forecast are made as needed.  I find it very accurate and reliable. 

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2019, 12:30:35 pm »
I was doing the PTC, and one of the four pages I visited was Weather.
I noticed it had a forecast at the bottom that said "Rain starting in 73 minutes."

73 minutes later, it's raining...
That is pretty neat isn't it?  I have a weather app on my phone that I use numerous times every day.  It has the hour by hour forecast and the temperature.  Updates to the forecast are made as needed.  I find it very accurate and reliable. 

It is pretty neat.  Also, a little unsettling, when you're not expecting it to be so precise.

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2019, 12:33:49 pm »
I was doing the PTC, and one of the four pages I visited was Weather.
I noticed it had a forecast at the bottom that said "Rain starting in 73 minutes."

73 minutes later, it's raining...

If you get the weather channel app it does that. You get notifications saying rain will begin at such and such a time. Most of the time it is right on.  It isn't as scary as people want to get freaked out about. They have radar and can see how fast it is moving and the direction.  They have your location if that is enabled on your phone and can see when the system will be at your location.

I'm not freaking about it.  It just surprised me, that it was so exact on the timing.

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2019, 03:32:50 pm »
This is really amazing but I really like it

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2019, 03:51:44 pm »
That was cool. I wish all weather reports could be that accurate all the time. It would be easier to plan events. It rained really bad on our sea world trip when it wasn't supposed to, but we still had a great time.

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2019, 04:21:04 pm »
When you live in New Mexico and an app says it is going to rain in say 43 minutes, well it might look like rain, smell like rain and doesn't  rain. You live in N.M.  it is rarely right  here. Now  25 miles away at the lake it is raining but not here.

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2019, 05:28:37 pm »
Yes that really is weird.

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2019, 05:57:44 pm »
Here in So. Cal. the weather forecast can say it's going to rain, but where I live it usually always falls out near the mountains and is gone by the time the clouds get to us. Although, it was an unusually wet winter here.

I'll have to check out the PTC weather and see how accurate it is here. I don't usually pay attention to what it says.

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Re: That was weird...
« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2019, 04:33:14 am »
I was doing the PTC, and one of the four pages I visited was Weather.
I noticed it had a forecast at the bottom that said "Rain starting in 73 minutes."

73 minutes later, it's raining...

If you get the weather channel app it does that. You get notifications saying rain will begin at such and such a time. Most of the time it is right on.  It isn't as scary as people want to get freaked out about. They have radar and can see how fast it is moving and the direction.  They have your location if that is enabled on your phone and can see when the system will be at your location.

I'm not freaking about it.  It just surprised me, that it was so exact on the timing.

They have radar so it is pretty exact.  It is kind of neat.  And scary at the same time. lol

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