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Old 07-23-2016, 01:09 PM   #706
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We had 62" of rain in north Texas last year (2015), so we were soggy too! But we were still hot. Ground moisture and extreme heat just make the heat index worse. BTW, we usually average about 33" of rain per year, so 2015 was extraordinarily wet!
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We had 62" of rain in north Texas last year (2015), so we were soggy too! But we were still hot. Ground moisture and extreme heat just make the heat index worse. BTW, we usually average about 33" of rain per year, so 2015 was extraordinarily wet!
Seattle had 45" last year. Our average is 38".
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Our average rainfall is 14" and we got 20".
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tropical storm Darby coming.
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Our average rainfall is 14" and we got 20".
Y'all don't get much rain; do ya? The driest place I ever lived averaged just under 10" of rain and the wettest place I ever lived averaged 82" of rain. I'm very comfortable with my 38" of rain.
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We don't get 'canes up here; we get shakes.
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Our average rainfall is 14" and we got 20".
We'll prolly get that much tomorrow.
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Well, Darby's come and gone. He dumped 4 inches of rain in my neighborhood, but we got off easy. Other areas on the island had it much worse; freeways and major arteries closed due to flooding. Some minimal wind damage, homeless encampments rousted, but thankfully no deaths or major injuries, and only sporadic power outages.
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Well, Darby's come and gone. He dumped 4 inches of rain in my neighborhood, but we got off easy. Other areas on the island had it much worse; freeways and major arteries closed due to flooding. Some minimal wind damage, homeless encampments rousted, but thankfully no deaths or major injuries, and only sporadic power outages.
Glad to see you are doing good.
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Well, Darby's come and gone. He dumped 4 inches of rain in my neighborhood, but we got off easy. Other areas on the island had it much worse; freeways and major arteries closed due to flooding. Some minimal wind damage, homeless encampments rousted, but thankfully no deaths or major injuries, and only sporadic power outages.
Did it ever reach hurricane status?
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yes, while still in the Eastern Pacific it made cat one for a couple of days, then degenerated back to a TS. We're fortunate in that there is a band of cooler surface temps between us and Mexico that usually cools the westward moving cyclones a bit.
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Several months ago, Sonos revealed plans to bring voice control to its popular home audio speakers. Today at an event in New York City, the company shared more on its approach to letting users play music by speaking commands aloud instead of controlling everything by thumbing through the Sonos app. In short, it's all about Amazon, Alexa, and Echo. Beginning in 2017, anyone with an Alexa-enabled device — right now that's the Echo, Echo Tap, or Echo Dot — will be able to control Sonos speakers with voice commands.

It's a great pairing for both companies; Sonos speakers sound way better than the Echo, and Alexa is quickly evolving as the leading smart home voice assistant. And since everything works over Wi-Fi, all existing Sonos devices are supported; Amazon's Echo is still handling the microphone / listening part and communicating commands to the Sonos gear.
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Now Sonos is embracing its erstwhile rival to bring voice control into its own speakers. At a New York event on Tuesday morning, the company announced a partnership with Amazon that will allow the users to operate their Sonos devices using Amazon’s Alexa technology.

But there’s a catch: Alexa’s voice technology won’t be built into Sonos speakers. Instead, users will have to purchase an Amazon device, like the Echo or Dot speakers, and use it to control their Sonos system.

Sonos will open up a private beta of the integration at the end of this year. The features will become available to all Sonos owners in early 2017.
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Before today, the Alexa Skills Kit enabled short audio via SSML audio tags on your skill responses. Today we are excited to announce that we have now added streaming audio support for Alexa skills including playback controls. This means you can easily create skills that playback audio content like podcasts, news stories, and live streams.

New AudioPlayer and PlaybackController interfaces provide directives and requests for streaming audio and monitoring playback progression. With this new feature, your skill can send audio directives to start and stop the playback. The Alexa service can provide your skill with information about the audio playback’s state, such as when the track is nearly finished, or when playback starts and stops. Alexa can also now send requests in response to hardware buttons, such as those on a remote control.
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Live streaming audio is also now supported, so any live content provider, like a radio station, can build a dedicated Alexa Skill for their stream, instead of relying on services like TuneIn to stream their content. Similarly, you can probably expect to see Alexa Skills for individual podcasts released in the coming months. These should provide a better user experience than requesting podcasts from services like iHeartRadio.
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