1324: Weather - Revision history

FaviFake: In the [https://xkcd.com/1324/info.0.json official transcript for this comic], Cueball is referred to as "Cueball". This is very unusual, as Randall usually uses terms such as "Person 1" in his transcripts and [[Cueball#Name|refrains fr

2025-06-12T13:34:28Z

In the [https://xkcd.com/1324/info.0.json official transcript for this comic], Cueball is referred to as "Cueball". This is very unusual, as Randall usually uses terms such as "Person 1" in his transcripts and [[Cueball#Name|refrains fr

FaviFake: 1 letter isn't text

2025-06-12T13:20:38Z

1 letter isn't text

ExplainEuge.ca at 08:28, 12 June 2025

2025-06-12T08:28:31Z

ExplainEuge.ca at 08:26, 12 June 2025

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172.68.174.227: /* Explanation */

2023-08-30T15:23:15Z

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172.70.162.170: Undo revision 312895 by LostXOR (talk) I can actually see why it was mentioned. Modified revert, to make that more obvious/phrase better. Alternate 'record' might be more apt, but works as a fact.

2023-05-11T21:27:06Z

Undo revision 312895 by LostXOR (talk) I can actually see why it was mentioned. Modified revert, to make that more obvious/phrase better. Alternate 'record' might be more apt, but works as a fact.

LostXOR: Removed unnecessary remark about pressure in Minnesota.

2023-05-11T19:46:40Z

Removed unnecessary remark about pressure in Minnesota.

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 == Trivia ==
-In the official transcript, Cueball is called "Cueball".
+In the [https://xkcd.com/1324/info.0.json official transcript for this comic], [[Cueball]] is referred to as "Cueball". This is very unusual, as Randall usually uses terms such as "Person 1" in [[Transcript|his transcripts]] and [[Cueball#Name|refrains from giving a distinctive name to the character]].
 {{comic discussion}}

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 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
 [[Category:Social interactions]]
 [[Category:Weather]]

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 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
 [[Category:Social interactions]]
 [[Category:Weather]]

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 :[Caption below the panel:]
 :Weather geeks have it tough.
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 ==Explanation==
-Social norm accepts casual small-talk as an ice breaker for interaction — usually it is always safe to talk about the weather without hitting any disagreements as there are rarely any personal viewpoints about the weather — in contrast small-talk is never about political subjects or similar where chances are that there are strong personal viewpoints.
+Social norm accepts casual small-talk as an ice breaker for interaction — usually it is always safe to talk about the weather without hitting any disagreements as there are rarely any personal viewpoints about the weather — in contrast small-talk is never about political subjects (except perhaps at a political rally or in a similar context where it is reasonably certain that everyone agrees) or similar where chances are that there are strong personal viewpoints.
 In this strip [[Cueball]] is described a "weather geek", enjoying subjects such as {{w|meteorology}} and {{w|weather forecasting}}. When [[Hairy]] makes a comment about the weather, Cueball launches into a detailed technical discussion, not realizing Hairy is simply trying to engage in small-talk. Only weather geeks would have this problem, but this topic is a common opening for a conversation in casual small-talk. Cueball switches to small-talk once he realizes that Hairy is confused and didn't expect this level of technical information.

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 *18z is 18:00 {{w|Coordinated Universal Time|UTC}} (6&nbsp;PM in London, 10&nbsp;AM in California). See {{w|ISO 8601}} at Wikipedia. The letter "Z" is used as 'Zulu' in the {{w|NATO phonetic alphabet}}, meaning just UTC.
 *GFS is the {{w|Global Forecast System}} (also known as NCEP-GFS). It is a computer model used by the {{w|National Weather Service}} to predict the weather up to 16 days in advance. The model is run 4 times a day and the output is distinguished by the UTC hour it was started (18z in this case).
-*Part of the prediction is the {{w|atmospheric pressure}} expressed in {{w|Bar (unit)|millibars}} (or mb). 960&nbsp;mb is very low pressure, which is usually associated with seriously bad weather.
+*Part of the prediction is the {{w|atmospheric pressure}} expressed in {{w|Bar (unit)|millibars}} (or mb). 960&nbsp;mb is very low pressure, which is usually associated with seriously bad weather (for comparison, the record low pressure for Minnesota was 963&nbsp;mb until 1998).
 *"Think it'll verify?": A forecast "verifies" when an analysis of observations at the forecast time are found to match the forecast. Cueball is asking if Hairy thinks the prediction of a 960&nbsp;mb low will be shown to have been correct.