On 10/31/2014 9:22 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:57:21 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/30/2014 10:50 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:32:51 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

We were discussing the possibilities or
probabilities of guns being banned or revoking the 2A.

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That would provoke a nationwide disturbance not seen since the civil
war, and would be political suicide for any strong advocate. There
would be states that threatened secession from the union and they'd be
serious about it.


PS, I regret to report that my forecast for a weekend nor'easter up
your way still looks pretty solid.


I'll have to check the local forecast again. Last word I heard is that
it was going to just clip the Cape which means some rain and wind but
not too bad.

5-8 inches of snow in Maine though.

I am still playing with the ViewFax program you provided the link to. I
can see the "get data" in the pull down menu and when I click on it I
get this:

http://tinyurl.com/pkl9mdc

But when I request any of the areas (Boston in this case) the display
either comes up blank or it comes up with the text of a weather forecast
like this:

http://tinyurl.com/ohbt4zj

If I click on "open" under file in the pull down, and then on the image
file, it loads the global map but there's no weather information on it.

I'll figure it out eventually.


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OK, you're getting close. After you get the global map, use the
window bars and cursor to draw a blue box that looks like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/37wm5h47tgov8ni/Screenshot%202014-10-31%2009.15.16.png?dl=0

The box defines the lat/lon co-ordinates of the area that you are
interested in.

At the bottom select "GFS" from the pull-down and then click
"request".

That should bring up an option box where you specify dates, times,
model parameters, etc.



Hmmmm... If I draw a box on the map with the curser, it immediately
disappears when I release the mouse button and the curser reverts back
to the "hand" style for panning.

I also don't have the menu bar on the left when the map is displayed.

I'll keep playing with it.