Jared Smith

Media-minded Web developer with potent geek energy, a meteorological bent and an eccentric streak based in Charleston, SC. Blog at http://jaredwsmith.com.
RT @NWSCharlestonSC: Tide now 7.1 ft in the harbor and rising. Risk for flash flooding continues in dwtn Charleston. @chswx @SCEMD @ChasCountyGov @CharlestonPD
Today's flash flood warning from NWS CHS is the first of the year. Lucky us...?
Ears are ringing, voice is shot, and BoomTown has the shoe. All in all, a successful #i5k, though I regret not running the race.
Updated: IEM Chat Alerts using Adium and Growl - http://jaredwsmith.com/2014...
Updated: IEM Chat Alerts using Adium and Growl The public Iowa Environmental Mesonet chat rooms, which relay real-time NWS products over XMPP, have moved to a new conference server (conference.weather.im), so I updated my reasonably popular (popular has a strange meaning on this blog) post about how to set up popup alerts using Growl to […] - Jared Smith
RT @WxDan: @jaredwsmith It's a HUGE WEDGE...of cold air.
In case it wasn't clear. http://instagram.com/p...
Interesting-looking storm near Wagener in Aiken County, SC… https://twitter.com/jaredws...
Looks like Southern Charm is on… https://twitter.com/jaredws...
The US Airways marketing team picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
RT @WordCampCHS: WordCamp Charleston is one of the best values around town; 16 quality speakers at $15 a ticket http://2014.charleston.wordcamp.org/schedul... #chs #chstech #wcchs
I would never have ditched Google+ if their interaction designers had not wanted to animate every God-forsaken UI element.
RT @pourmecoffee: On this day in 1861 the Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter to protest Obamacare.
Pro Tip: Reading the comments on an article about the Second Amendment is an ill-advised way to start a weekend.
RT @jeresig: Private key has been successfully extracted from an nginx server using Heartbleed by @indutny: https://t.co/iIrwwSVpco Worst case scenario.
Unbleed my heart Say you’ll check your bounds Undo this week that you’ve wrought When you exploit SSL And make me rekey through the night
Birds making quite an appearance on the radar tonight. So many roost rings. https://twitter.com/jaredws...
Sure hope @TannerLD and @TimHaines have had great birthdays today. Talented dudes!
Dear beagle: I have been awake for ~20 consecutive hours. Please cease inverted sneezing immediately. Sincerely, The Management
Another @wpchs scheduled for a parental birthday — drat! Good luck tonight, @zslabs!
Sure hope these storms clear the area before tipoff. I wouldn’t want to be the @LIVE5WEATHER email inbox otherwise…
"Drizzle starting soon!" says a popular, well-designed weather app...0.4-0.6 CC says otherwise. https://twitter.com/jaredws...
The only Mt. Pleasant VIPIR I remember was on WCBD and was swapped out in favor of WSI TruVu Titan a few years ago.
RT @ablaze_co: You say: “Get the app!” We hear: “Leave the site!”
Someone should put an ice cube on the Ravenel for old times’ sake.
If Airplane! was made now, Ted Striker would have missed his flight while being interrogated about his one way, no baggage ticket.
The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Uh oh -- looks like TWC's Twitter bot is spitting out stale tornado warnings...
My Fun Fact for tomorrow’s company shindig is more like an Unfortunate Fact.
1.96 NROT now with Hunt County, TX tornadic supercell. https://twitter.com/jaredws...
Dreaded fuchsia box in GR2Analyst - confirmed tornado near Farmersville, TX. Lots of hail, too. Radar from 8:34 ET. https://twitter.com/jaredws...