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Weather Watchers

msongs

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4. in the old days the severe weather watch was "50 miles on either side of a line from X to Y". and that was it lol

Reply to 2naSalit (Original post)

Sun May 18, 2025, 08:57 PM

May 18

it would appear as a text box on your tv screen after a series of beeps or bells. no pics, no vids, no talking head, just the text. for details you turned on the local am radio which was full of lightning flash interference noise. you could tell if the lightning was close or far by how loud the noise was

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in the old days the severe weather watch was "50 miles on either side of a line from X to Y". and that was it lol msongs May 18 #4