| I only post here and there. I usually don't post anything other than recon data there. I post it there because a lot of people there follow the recon thread. If people view the information there, no need to come to my site. People use a lot of bandwidth on my site viewing recon data. If I create an image and post it there, uploading the image to an image host, not with the company I host my site on, I don't use any bandwidth. My site is very inexpensive, like $6 a month, but I try to avoid having a lot of people come to my site since if the host I have my site on ever didn't allow my site, the next nearest competitor that would allow me to do what they allow me to do would be 4 to 5 times as expensive, at least. That's why it is helpful to have the recon data at HurricaneCity. I also have the data at MyFoxHurricane too. They also allowed me to have the recon system there a long time ago and I am working on getting the new system there too so that my site can fail and there can still be multiple backups. For example, when I post recon images here I also post them there. There I post them a lot more frequently, sometimes every 10 minutes, although for the last few months I have been very busy and have not as much. Here I do it much less, trying to focus on more notable recon images. As for the quality at Storm2k, it's pretty good. There are quite a few meteorologists that post there. But, there is so much posting, the information goes by so quickly. A page can go by within an hour or less, sometimes much less. Also, they really focus on the models there. I don't like to obsess on the models so much. (although they split the threads between a regular thread, models and recon) There is some of what was talked about in the last few weeks, what you have to be careful with on social media. Given there are a lot of people posting there, there are sometimes people who post things about what a storm will or will not do in a rather definitive manner. They do try to get people not to do that. They will delete the posts if needed. But when you have dozens of pages of people saying this and that, it just gets to be overwhelming. There is a lot of other information there, weather forums not just for the tropics, but there is so much data. (There is other weather info here at CaneTalk too though, but it's hard to really keep up with everything around the world.) The meteorologists have blue usernames there. Storm2k apparently verifies that. So sometimes I do scan the thread looking for that. I do like that aspect, but there are just so many posts that I don't often post or come close to reading most of the threads, other than recon data. I was taking a look and I have posted 3,805 posts there, greater than 99% probably posting recon data. I also can't remember for sure, but I'm not sure they like posting to other forums there, which I I don't like. (I could be wrong, but I seem to remember something like that many years ago.) TD Nine Theads: Discussion: 4043 posts Model: 3572 posts Recon: 124 posts Imagine reading all those!!! I like CaneTalk's message board since there is not so much of that, more of the important information, in a manner easier to find. I like to form a new thread when needed and let older threads fall further down. That's why I create a new thread often, maybe every 6 hours for a threatening storm and try to reply on that if possible so the latest is always at the top, with important info in the subject line. That is also why I might post satellite, radar, model and other data repetitively in each post so that the new post can have that easy access and you don't have to dig down to find it. You can scan post titles for the information you want. Sometimes I forget to do that, but that allows someone to kind of decide what they want to read without going to it. You can see a bunch of replies and if you don't want to pay attention to a particular discussion, you can simply not look at those posts in the reply tree for the main thread. At Storm2k you would have to scan all the message in the thread. So I like the format here better, but I do like to post about recon data there, since so many people go there to look at the data, and look to see what some of the meteorologists who post there think. If I ever say I found something on another message board, that is almost definitely where I am talking about it. (I just don't happen to mention the site too much simply because I don't think they like linking to other forums from there, but again I could misremember) |