Woke Weather

[Perd Hapley]

I have for several years relied on the National Weather Service's forecast.weather.gov for my weather-guessing needs, and for checking on weather alerts (tornado warnings, and such). I was aware of Juneteenth before most of the wokies knew about it, so it didn't bother me, last week, to see that the NWS's 7-day forecast identified Monday as "Juneteenth."



As of now, however, the site seems unaware that Tuesday is Independence Day.


Both are federal holidays.

Now taking weather website/app recommendations!

[AZRedhawk44]

I have high suspicion of anyone that refers to Independence Day as merely "the fourth of July."

[230RN]

That's been an annual irk for me for decades even though I secretly consider the birth of our nation as being on December 15th, 1791:

"On December 15, 1791, Virginia became the 10th of 14 states to approve 10 of the 12 amendments, thus giving the Bill of Rights the majority of state ratification necessary to make it legal. Of the two amendments not ratified, the first concerned the population system of representation, while the second prohibited laws varying the payment of congressional members from taking effect until an election intervened. The first of these two amendments was never ratified, while the second was finally ratified more than 200 years later, in 1992."

The interval between July 4th 1776 and December 15 1791 I regard as kind of a "gestation period," with the *expletive deleted*ing of King George in 1776 as the "moment of conception."

Terry, 230RN   

[Perd Hapley]

That's been an annual irk for me for decades even though I secretly consider the birth of our nation as being on December 15th, 1791:

"On December 15, 1791, Virginia became the 10th of 14 states to approve 10 of the 12 amendments, thus giving the Bill of Rights the majority of state ratification necessary to make it legal. Of the two amendments not ratified, the first concerned the population system of representation, while the second prohibited laws varying the payment of congressional members from taking effect until an election intervened. The first of these two amendments was never ratified, while the second was finally ratified more than 200 years later, in 1992."

The interval between July 4th 1776 and December 15 1791 I regard as kind of a "gestation period," with the *expletive deleted*ing of King George in 1776 as the "moment of conception."

Terry, 230RN

That is not just wrong, but statist. We created a republican government for a nation that already existed. We are the nation; not the government. If you want an alternate date, 19 April '75 would be more appropriate.

[griz]

Or July 2nd:

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/when-is-the-real-independence-day-july-2-or-july-4

[Perd Hapley]

Or July 2nd:

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/when-is-the-real-independence-day-july-2-or-july-4

Adams-loving Federalist! 

[230RN]

That is not just wrong, but statist. We created a republican government for a nation that already existed. We are the nation; not the government. If you want an alternate date, 19 April '75 would be more appropriate.

"...secretly..."

"...I regard as kind of a 'gestation period'... "

And Statist?  My Seconds will call on you this afternoon, suh.

[Tuco]

For me Liberty Bell Day is all that.

[RoadKingLarry]

We should all be celebrating June 4th.

[WLJ]

We should all be celebrating June 4th.

Tiananmen Square?

[MechAg94]

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/day/june-4
Battle of Midway?

[WLJ]

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/day/june-4
Battle of Midway?

I knew that. One of my life long hobbies is studying that battle just didn't pop into my head at the moment. 

[fifth_column]

I've been using https://www.wunderground.com/ for . . . ever. The phone app is great, the predictions are accurate, and the cost is like three bucks a year, IIRC.

[RoadKingLarry]

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/marvin-heemeyer-killdozer

[Perd Hapley]

My correspondence with the NWS:

Hi!

As a regular user of the forecast.gov site, I've noticed that the NWS usually marks holidays on its 7-day forecast. The most recent example was last Monday, which the website called Juneteenth. However, this Tuesday (July 4th, Independence Day) is just marked down as Tuesday. 

Happy Independence Day,
Josh

Hello-

Our forecasts will apply the official name of every Federal holiday. This includes Independence Day, which will appear on forecasts starting on Saturday as we enter the month of July.

Thank you for contacting us!

[Ben]

It sounds like they're claiming that the web page populates holidays on a "per month" basis, beginning on the first of the month. I'd be willing to buy this, except that I'm almost positive that New Years Day is shown well before 01JAN.

[K Frame]

Silly person...

Independence Day is a Dead White Man Day of Extreme Violence towards everyone else.

[230RN]

I can't admire Heemeyer in any way.  He accomplished nothing but commit a time-wasting, expensive, technically demanding act of childish vengeance.  It had no positive effect on anybody including himself and did not inspire anyone to higher acts of political change.

He might have held his breath until he turned blue for better effect.

A helluva "folk hero."