Today a very large storm system is slowly moving across the middle states, and trying to get wide-area reports from weather websites is not so easy, unless there is a better way to do it that I do not know.
Maybe we should talk about a wide-spread network of Part 15 stations providing direct reports from their area that could be streamed so that participating stations could grab reports from surrounding areas?
Seems like a good idea but the amount of real-time work might make it difficult to implement.
What think?
We already have a Hub Net for exchanging weather information in real time.
It's not our part 15 radio station nor our indivudual website.
It's right here at part15.us!
THE OFFICIAL PART 15 WEATHER EXCHANGE IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
Here in the St. Louis, Missouri, Homeland location, the temperature hovered at 20-degrees with little wind throughout the morning of today's Winter Storm Warning.
At 10 AM CST a powdery snow fell for 15-minutes then stopped, leaving a white disting on the ground.
At 10:25 AM CST a slow sprinkling of rain punched holes in the snow powder, but not too many so far.
My theory is that the snow punched with holes will form a crunchy surface not yet too dangerous for the mailman or the UPS man, so I am holding off on treating the problem with my two bags of ice melt and a shovel.
Two neighbors are sweeping the snow off their sidewalks, but I believe they will end up with very slick icy sidewalks.
More report later.
ADDENDUM BY EDIT
11 AM CDT Took a walk-around and report that the hole-punched ground snow is indeed crunchy and easy to walk on, but becoming more so by small ice-pellets now falling. I would say that the HAARP Weather Modification is becoming very sophisticated.
Now 4:28 PM CST and the winter storm has been underway since 10 AM, passing through stages.
An hour ago was an interesting scene, as the falling snow was so dense composed of fine particulates, that it was like a white smoke obscuring vision so that nearby objects looked like they were being subjected to a video special effect.
I'm just in from a porch shoveling, during a brief pause in the action, finding about 4" of snow, much more than was predicted. As I worked, a wetter mixture began dropping, probably the start of the ice storm portion of the event.
You are tuned in with the Part 15 Storm Hub.
10:31 AM CST the morning after Storm Day, and all is calm, with around 4" of snow everywhere, temperature 31-degrees.
The night of freezing drizzle that was part of the forecast never happened, call it luck.
No other storm reports from elsewhere have come into the Storm Hub, but I just heard that the storm is only now sweeping across Wisconsin, so the Storm Hub remains open for weather reports.