Interesting feature on a weather map

SW VandeCarr

I was checking out a developing blizzard forecast for the northeast US today when I saw this interesting fog feature over the South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma area.

http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/...her_large.html

EDIT: The image is changing. It was the near perfect shape of a question mark right in the center of the country (0500 EST 12/26/10), fog feature color coded yellow. Sorry, but I'm not getting the delete option or finding a quick way to obtain this particular map. (Attempt to copy the original image failed.)

Smock

A question mark is one of the most common things a weather front could look like, but it is still awesome. I love looking for pictures on weather maps, it is like finding a rainbow. Coolest thing I have ever seen is where the fronts all lined up to almost spell the word SKY.

SW VandeCarr

Yeah. I copied the page as a file first but the map itself wasn't captured. I sent an email to the US National Weather Service giving the date and time, but no response yet. Do you know of any other way I can get that map: USA 0500 EST (I think that's 1000 GMT) Dec 26, 2010? Thanks.

EDIT" This wasn't a front. It was an area of fog coded yellow over four central US states, with the period nearly perfectly placed. I didn't just resemble a question mark. No imagination was required. It was a question mark for all practical purposes.

davenn

if you run into that situation again, just use the print screen key on the kybrd
and paste the copied image into something like MSpaint (paintbrush)

I have to do it all the time since our local met office here started using a different style of displaying active maps on their www site.

it works a treat :)

Dave

SW VandeCarr

Thanks Dave. I'll give it a try next time. `However, it looks like this image is proprietary, belonging to The (US) Weather Channel (TWC) and I'm trying to find out who to talk to there.

Steve