New WeatherNets

We have added 2 new weather net stations in the last couple of weeks. One at Hampton Cove and another at Collinsville over in Dekalb county. Not to mention the one in August at Bob Jones high school in Madison.

This now gives us quite a mesonet of real time reporting stations. Thanks to the sponsorship of Bill Penney Toyota we will be adding another live camera and some more stations soon as well.

These stations are not cheap..they cost about $7k each. We also share our data with the other stations around the country who use the AWS sensors, so I can call up live weather from over 3,000 different sites around the country!

One other thing to mention to day. I have received several emails from folks over in Marshall county. They are upset because we did not go on with wall to wall coverage of their tornado warning last Sunday night. I have answered all the emails but let me say here what I said then.

The radar data showed some rotation for only a few scans then it became much weaker. After showing the radar and crawling the warning I decided not to break in. There was a slight chance of some damaging wind gusts but no real threat of a tornado. Thus leaving the warning alert on and continuing with regular programming was the right thing to do.

I know that people will howl when I interrupt a popular program and others will howl when I do not.

The only decision to really make here is whether or not there is a significant danger.
If there is, I go on.
If not, I do not.

What other people do, I could care less about. That is the only responsible and ethical way to approach it.

I do get a kick out of people who think I am doing it to see myself on TV. I've been doing this for 25 years now and I long ago got over that thrill!


Later,
Dan