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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!
IMPORTANT – This event was originally scheduled for January 19, 2019 and has been cancelled/postponed/rescheduled for February 23, 2019 due to the government shutdown. The location has also changed from McKinney to Frisco.
PlanoWeather.com will be attending the Collin County Basic and Advanced Spotter Training Sessions on Saturday, February 23 from 8:30AM-4:30PM. If you are interested in attending, it is open to the public. No advanced registration is required.
Basic Session at 8:30 AM – 12 Noon
Advanced Session at 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
LOCATION
Collin College:
Preston Ridge Campus
Conference Center
9700 Wade Boulevard
Frisco, TX 75035
2019 Training Schedule for North Texas:
https://www.weather.gov/fwd/skywarnsch?sptrsch
https://www.weather.gov/fwd/skywarnmap
Forecasters from the National Weather Service in Fort Worth conduct storm spotter training sessions each year to help prepare spotters for the upcoming severe weather season. The NWS conducts the training at the invitation of local emergency management officials who organize the training and who, in most cases are responsible for maintaining their local storm spotter network.
The training sessions are typically about two hours long and cover fundamental information that every spotter needs to know, with a focus on safety, identification of key weather features and proper reporting procedures.
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.
On Thursday, June 14, 2018, Nathan and Jessica of PlanoWeather.com attended a Wonder Café event at the Parr Library in Plano where Pete Delkus, Colleen Coyle, and Jesse Hawila from WFAA Channel 8 gave a presentation and discussion about meteorology.
Wonder Café is a monthly program that brings professionals from our community to the library to share expertise and offer a look into various careers.
Thank you to everyone involved in putting together this great program.
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.
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
We use a manual rain gauge to backup and calibrate our station rain measurements. Here is Jessica performing her daily “chore” the morning of February 21, 2018. That is a lot of rain for a 24-hour period in February!
PlanoWeather.com will be attending the Collin County Basic and Advanced Spotter Training Sessions on Saturday, January 20 from 8:30AM-4:30PM. If you are interested in attending, it is open to the public. No advanced registration is required.
Basic Session at 8:30 AM – 12 Noon
Advanced Session at 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
LOCATION
Collin College
Conference Center
2400 Community Avenue
McKinney, TX 75070
2018 Training Schedule for North Texas:
http://www.weather.gov/fwd/skywarnsch?sptrsch
http://www.weather.gov/fwd/skywarnmap
Forecasters from the National Weather Service in Fort Worth conduct storm spotter training sessions each year to help prepare spotters for the upcoming severe weather season. The NWS conducts the training at the invitation of local emergency management officials who organize the training and who, in most cases are responsible for maintaining their local storm spotter network.
The training sessions are typically about two hours long and cover fundamental information that every spotter needs to know, with a focus on safety, identification of key weather features and proper reporting procedures.
The National Weather Service (NWS) will be implementing changes to its API as early as February 1, 2017. These changes will impact alerting protocols, forecast applications, and URL changes to SSL. As a result, the PlanoWeather.com server software must be upgraded for compatibility and many of our pages and back-end scripts will require updating. Over the next few weeks and when the NWS officially makes the transition, you may notice changes to the site and possibly experience issues as we work through the updates. Thank you in advance for your patience during this process.
PlanoWeather.com will be attending the Collin County Basic and Advanced Spotter Training Sessions on Saturday, January 21 from 8:30AM-4:30PM. If you are interested in attending, it is open to the public. No advanced registration is required.
Basic Session at 8:30 AM – 12 Noon
Advanced Session at 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
LOCATION
Throckmorton Ballroom
Sheraton McKinney Hotel
1900 Gateway Boulevard
McKinney, TX 75070
2017 Training Schedule for North Texas:
http://www.weather.gov/fwd/skywarnsch?sptrsch
http://www.weather.gov/fwd/skywarnmap
Forecasters from the National Weather Service in Fort Worth conduct storm spotter training sessions each year to help prepare spotters for the upcoming severe weather season. The NWS conducts the training at the invitation of local emergency management officials who organize the training and who, in most cases are responsible for maintaining their local storm spotter network.
The training sessions are typically about two hours long and cover fundamental information that every spotter needs to know, with a focus on safety, identification of key weather features and proper reporting procedures. NWS Press Release
