http://www.wxqa.com/news.html 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#3254095b820c Weather Watchers Article that says... That is a lot of weather to negotiate. The professional weather services and research centers parse out most of the details for us, but multitudes of Texans have also taken our extreme weather variables to heart. Want to know the current weather stats at pinpoint locations in Crowley, Midlothian or Frisco? How about Texline or Muleshoe? Hundreds of Texans maintain weather stations in their own backyards as members of the Citizen Weather Observer Program. These citizen scientists collect weather data and upload it to state and national weather service centers. They offer real-time conditions and detailed climate data. In essence, they provide weather quality assurance for the state. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#13b2d10e5750 Father's Day Article. The article is about Weather Stations and Weather Radios being great gifts for Dad on his day. We couldn't agree more, especially since the article mentions CWOP. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#05aedc58c30d http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#320339b6526b CWOP search now returns a link to the closest CWOP member web cam. This link is at the bottom of the returned page. If any of these links don't work, let me know, russ at wxqa dot com. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#2a9ffe976938 PowerPoint Presentation on solar radiation measurements made by citizens including comparisons with NOAA solar radiation measurements was given last week at the Climate Monitoring Division Annual Meeting at the NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory in Boulder, CO. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#17bc4450448c Karl Uppiano (CW3375) reports that his 1-Wire Weather Service for Java software now supports the new WSI603A Weather Instrument Kit from AAG. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#4b6ed1ad60c2 NOAA mesonet map. The visibility in miles shows up below the cursor, and also in the station histories. Histories continue to take a while--maybe 20 seconds--to appear. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#6edff8533bef NTSB: "MADIS helps us with the mesoscale applications and fill the gap in between airport observations. We also have highway and railway accidents which of course always don't match up with airports. In the Colgan Air accident near Buffalo, I am using the MADIS network data for temperature, dew point, and wind data. We have some reports of mixed precipitation in the area and the local area reports are of interest. We used MADIS also in a recent fire fighting helicopter accident in northern California located away from normal airport observations. MADIS and Mesonetworks were critical to help determine wind and temperature data, and to help determine density altitude for performance impacts." CWOP is the largest mesonet in the MADIS dataset, and Don adds "Keep up the good work!" ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#e3497e5f6000 here. This new server is reached just like the other CWOP servers, by using cwop.aprs.net as the server designator in your local software. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#a11796b46568 compare solar radiance from NOAA calibrated stations and from CWOP stations. Here's a comparison plot of a Surface Radiation Calibrated station (SRCBON) and eight CWOP stations located in Illinois and Indiana. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#c82b95b2d894 spotters section of their web site has a link to a CWOP Recruiting Item under "Transmitting Data from your Weather Station to the NWS". ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#30116696460a software update, 5.8.3, appears to fix several issues. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#bfd258a4eba1 http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#e1807ccb59cf zip file that shows the last packet received from each weather station during February where the first number is the number of days packets were received during the month. Stations active only one day are not listed since they are probably an error. Files like this are used to generate the stations/month graph. ]]> http://www.wxqa.com/news.html#6cedbbdc7a62 ARRL News item about CWOP and other organizations and public service activities. ]]>