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2021 Website Metrics

Sunday, January 16th, 2022 12:11pm CST

120,702 Unique visitors
386,449 Visits
10,428,647 Pages
84,202,955 Hits

2020 Website Metrics

Friday, January 1st, 2021 4:15pm CST

108,801 Unique visitors (-12% from 2019)
374,426 Visits (-5% from 2019)
10,811,332 Pages (+25% from 2019)
124,473,658 Hits (+29% from 2019)
Favorite pages:
https://www.planoweather.com/wxraindetail.php
https://www.planoweather.com/wxradar.php
https://www.planoweather.com/wxforecast.php

Year-end station maintenance complete

Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 10:04am CST

Fan-aspirated radiation shield motor replacement, temperature/humidity digital sensor board replacement, wind speed bearing cartridge replacement, battery replacement.

Site Update – HTTPS

Thursday, January 30th, 2020 9:47am CST

All web traffic to PlanoWeather.com is now being forced to HTTPS. Communications between website visitors and the server are encrypted and no longer marked as “Not Secure” by Google Chrome and other web browsers.

2019 Website Metrics

Friday, January 3rd, 2020 8:23am CST

124,160 Unique visitors
392,718 Visits
8,625,720 Pages
96,320,493 Hits
Favorite pages:
https://www.planoweather.com/wxraindetail.php
https://www.planoweather.com/wxforecast.php

Website Additions and Changes – Spring 2019

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 11:50pm CDT

We made a couple of additions to the home page of our site this week. First, we enabled a toggle to switch the live station data units-of-measure between Imperial and Metric. This was in response to a request we received through social media a few months ago.

Second, we added a Seasons Countdown section, because we all need a reminder that even though we hit 89.6 degrees today (4/9/19), Summer does not begin for another 72 days! The new section will update to countdown each season: Spring-Vernal Equinox, Summer – Summer Solstice, Fall – Autumn Equinox, and Winter – Winter Solstice.

We also made several graphical updates to freshen up the site. We added a seamless cloud background graphic, a new set of forecast icons, new moon phase images, and rounded corners on the header and footer sections, tables, header fields, and images.

If you have any feedback or suggestions for site changes or additions, please let us know!

New Pages and Site Changes

Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 3:30pm CDT

We have made a few changes and additions to the site this week. We implemented a new Sunlight Pie Chart on the home page and added two new pages: GOES16 Animated Satellite Loops and NWS Forecast Office Text Products.

Thank you to Jerry Wilkins, https://www.gwwilkins.org/, for putting these scripts together!

Home Page Addition – Average High and Low Temperature for Today

Thursday, July 5th, 2018 1:12pm CDT

Now that our station has almost 10 years of historical data, we have added new cells to our websites home page displaying the Average High and Average Low Temperature for the current day based on measurements we have collected since October of 2009.

This feature would not be possible without scripts written by Murry Conarroe of Wildwood Weather in Decatur, Texas.

New Page – NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio

Monday, March 12th, 2018 3:32pm CDT

PlanoWeather.com is now streaming NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio Station KEC56 162.400MHz to NOAAWeatherRadio.org. Streams can be accessed from the following page: https://www.planoweather.com/wxradio.php.

From NOAAWeatherRadio.org/about/: “WHY? NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio Saves Lives! Every citizen should own, or be near an active, alarm-ready Weather Radio. We know that’s not always possible, and this one example is sufficient: Millions of folks work in situations where Weather Radios aren’t available, but computers and mobile devices are handy. So. Here. We. Are.”

Our setup is using a Midland WR300 Weather Radio, connected to our weather station computer audio interface, encoded as MP3 audio using butt (Broadcast Using This Tool) at 32k bit rate and 22,050Hz sample rate, then streamed to the NOAAWeatherRadio.org Icecast server, where it is continually checked for quality and availability.

We strongly recommend that all homes have a NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio. In addition to the Midland WR300 used for this project, we own and recommend the Midland WR400 Deluxe NOAA Weather Radio.

New Page – Local Lake Levels

Saturday, February 24th, 2018 4:07pm CST

A new page has been added to the site that provides current local lake levels – https://www.planoweather.com/wxriverpage.php. It is configured to poll the 5 nearest Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS) monitored lakes. Data is updated to the page every 3 hours at 45 minutes past the hour. Clicking on each location will display its detailed page. For example, here are current details for Lake Lavon: https://www.planoweather.com/wxriverdetail.php?id=LVNT2