Scotty Lightning Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 This is a good page to bookmark: http://weather.noaa.gov/monitor/radar/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stemwinder Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 This is a good page to bookmark: http://weather.noaa.gov/monitor/radar/ Bookmarked and appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVblizzard Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Down again. This is starting to get out of hand with how much this happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stemwinder Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Still down, but this page comes in handy. I can live with it, especially when it is being logged like this. This is a good page to bookmark: http://weather.noaa.gov/monitor/radar/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harbourton Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Down again. This is starting to get out of hand with how much this happens. As long as it doesn't happen before or during snowstorm or tropical system, I'm Ok. I won't post anything political, but the signs are there for anything purely scientific. We have to rely on Russia to get to the ISS?. Meanwhile early summer season for the local farmers has been great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPizz Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 damn duct tape keeps coming off on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Oh the familiar color of KDIX. Maybe we're getting a SAILS upgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stemwinder Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 So, maybe the title of this thread should just read "down" instead of "down for days"? Seems that it hasn't been bad at all lately. Knock on wood. Just asking' Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGorse Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Oh the familiar color of KDIX. Maybe we're getting a SAILS upgrade? KDIX was upgraded with SAILS a week or so ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 KDIX was upgraded with SAILS a week or so ago. Thanks Mike. We you guys work hard and appreciate it; was just pokin a little fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue sky Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 The radar should be a priority. We have to eliminate the local offices and use our resources on radars, satellites, updated computer models. Having an office in Cherry Hill adds nothing to forecasting ability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGorse Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 The radar should be a priority. We have to eliminate the local offices and use our resources on radars, satellites, updated computer models. Having an office in Cherry Hill adds nothing to forecasting ability.First of all, the radar is a priority. Secondly, What??? And there is no NWS office in Cherry Hill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBasile Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 The radar should be a priority. We have to eliminate the local offices and use our resources on radars, satellites, updated computer models. Having an office in Cherry Hill adds nothing to forecasting ability. Eliminate local offices? Who, exactly, would do the forecasting? Cherry Hill? Wut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 The radar should be a priority. We have to eliminate the local offices and use our resources on radars, satellites, updated computer models. Having an office in Cherry Hill adds nothing to forecasting ability. People who say this don't realize how lean the NWS already is compared to other government programs. And having spent only a few weeks working in an office now and seeing how much has to get done, even on a "boring" weather day - and in a rural office, no less - I can't imagine how the organization would survive with any consolidation. Oh, and radar and satellite and NWP are all being upgraded continuously anyway without cutting staffing. Dual-pol and SAILS are awesome, GOES-R is coming soon, and the plan is to have the HRRR operational by the end of 2015 (I believe) and an operational NAM ensemble and RAP ensemble by the end of the decade. And the GFS is going to be upgraded to a usable grid spacing post-truncation and a NAM-like grid spacing pre-truncation soon too. I wrote down the specifics at AMS in Feb. but then lost the sheet...oops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 The radar should be a priority. We have to eliminate the local offices and use our resources on radars, satellites, updated computer models. Having an office in Cherry Hill adds nothing to forecasting ability. Read more, post less. This diatribe is filled with inaccuracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue sky Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Read more, post less. This diatribe is filled with inaccuracy. What is Diatribe and what is Inaccurate? Their is one hurricane center. They forecast Hurricanes thousands of miles away. They forecast worldwide. No local offices. There is one severe weather office that forecasts throughout America. There are many private forecasting firms that forecast worldwide out of one office. Most countries use one forecast office. For Forecasting...why do we need all these local offices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBasile Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 So you think the SPC and NHC could produce daily local weather forecasts and issue storm warnings for 310 million people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchell Gaines Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 The radar should be a priority. We have to eliminate the local offices and use our resources on radars, satellites, updated computer models. Having an office in Cherry Hill adds nothing to forecasting ability. If the local offices are gone then who maintains the radar? There is no weather service office in Cherry Hill as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchell Gaines Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 People who say this don't realize how lean the NWS already is compared to other government programs. And having spent only a few weeks working in an office now and seeing how much has to get done, even on a "boring" weather day - and in a rural office, no less - I can't imagine how the organization would survive with any consolidation. Oh, and radar and satellite and NWP are all being upgraded continuously anyway without cutting staffing. Dual-pol and SAILS are awesome, GOES-R is coming soon, and the plan is to have the HRRR operational by the end of 2015 (I believe) and an operational NAM ensemble and RAP ensemble by the end of the decade. And the GFS is going to be upgraded to a usable grid spacing post-truncation and a NAM-like grid spacing pre-truncation soon too. I wrote down the specifics at AMS in Feb. but then lost the sheet...oops. Are you Volunteering at the SD office or got in at an intern position? Just wondering, I've been on Vacation for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGorse Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Their is one hurricane center. They forecast Hurricanes thousands of miles away. They forecast worldwide. No local offices. There is one severe weather office that forecasts throughout America. There are many private forecasting firms that forecast worldwide out of one office. Most countries use one forecast office. For Forecasting...why do we need all these local offices? First of all, the national centers issue different products than the forecast offices. Environment Canada, for example, does not just have one office issuing everything for their entire country. They did consolidate, but still have more than one forecast office. Second, the private forecasting firms are not maintaining weather equipment such as ASOS and radars. NWS offices do more than issue a seven day forecast and warnings. There is aviation, marine, fire weather, equipment maintenance that is performed, outreach, research conducted, and a built upon and maintained relationships with the emergency management and media community in the local areas. When the weather is quiet, those of us at the weather forecast offices are not just simply sitting around doing nothing. What is your agenda here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 What is Diatribe and what is Inaccurate? Their is one hurricane center. They forecast Hurricanes thousands of miles away. They forecast worldwide. No local offices. There is one severe weather office that forecasts throughout America. There are many private forecasting firms that forecast worldwide out of one office. Most countries use one forecast office. For Forecasting...why do we need all these local offices? There's no way you're serious about this. One office can issue warnings for an outbreak covering multiple CWAs? Conduct damage surveys? Provide educational outreach? Updates thousands of TAFs and marine grids at once? The national centers exist to provide guidance to and continue research for the local offices. They were never imagined to be redundancies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Are you Volunteering at the SD office or got in at an intern position? Just wondering, I've been on Vacation for a while. I'm a Hollings scholar. Thanks for asking! I'll be just a regular ol' volunteer at IWX in the fall and then I'll be trying to wedge my way in somewhere else next summer. Most likely wherever I end up going to grad school, but maybe I can twist someone's arm over there at Mt. Holly. We'll see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Flurries now But KDIX down once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc17926 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 According to NWS Mt Holly FB page, KDIX is back in service as of approx 3:30 today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksCO_PA Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 The Chinese or Russians hack into the NWS radar network, in addition to eveready of radar sites KDIX all the surrounding sites have been a mess this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSky Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 The Chinese or Russians hack into the NWS radar network, in addition to eveready of radar sites KDIX all the surrounding sites have been a mess this morning Or the North Koreans because they are pissed at the new movie about their little Dr Evil Strangely the NWS java version is partially working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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