Weather conditions and forecasts

[Boyd]

Was just looking around at various sites and found this one which is pretty cool. This link displays personal weather stations around the pines on a Google map. Click on any of the numbers to see local conditions and forecasts:

http://www.wunderground.com/stationmaps/gmap.asp?zip=08759&wmo=99999

Last night another one of those strange ones where it actually got warmer. I was walking around outside and the temperature started dropping right around dark and it hit about 40 degrees by 8 o'clock. I had a low fire going in the stove when I went to bed sometime around 1:00AM, when I woke up it was really hot inside so I went outside and checked the thermometer aroound 8:00AM - it was 59 degrees!

According to the forecasts, the warm weather is here for another week. Aside from the global warming debate, I've been enjoying spending time outside on these warm days and evenings. And I certainly don't mind not having to clear my 800 foot driveway or drive to work in the snow

Here are a couple other weather links which I like. The "Weather Underground" site has a lot of cool stuff. I especially like their NEXRAD map which lets you zoom in on any area you like (use your mouse to draw a box around anything you want). When a storm is coming I often just leave a window open with this link - it updates automatically:

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/r...X&type=N0R&lat=0&lon=0&label=you&showstorms=0

These forecast maps are interesting too. Click on the Map Type links to the right, then choose the forecast period you want from the drop down menu on the lower right:

http://www.wunderground.com/ndfdimage/viewimage?region=ne&type=wx&msg=1

The National Weather Service in Mt. Holly has a very nice site also. Click anywhere on the map to get your local forecast: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/

Anyone else have favorite weather sites to share?

 

[james ungehajer]

weather conditions

check out the tech section on the yahoo web page,a 41 square mile ancient ice shelf(3000 years old) has broken off from ellesmere island in canada,expected to threaten the shipping lanes.

 

[Teegate]

That NEXRAD map is interesting because of the fact that it appears it is centered and originates from the Lakehurst area. To be more specific it looks like it originates from the Lebanon Forest in Whiting on the Cedar Swamp Tract that was owned by Ft Dix until the mid 70’s. The Hanover 1824 stone was nearby and it was part of the Hanover Furnace property

Notice the center in the map.


http://www.wunderground.com/radar/r...ntery=242&lightning=0&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0


This may have something to do with that image.


http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.94...207&spn=0.011795,0.030513&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr

Guy

 

[Boyd]

Nice find Guy! If you switch to the map view you will see that facility is actually in a corner of the Ft. Dix military reservation, which would explain why the station is called "DIX"

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.94...ll=39.945674,-74.406452&spn=0.076068,0.146599

I never really paid much attention to that area before so I didn't realize that part of Ft. Dix was South of Rt 70.

 

[Boyd]

check out the tech section on the yahoo web page,a 41 square mile ancient ice shelf(3000 years old) has broken off from ellesmere island in canada

Actually that is discussed in one of the blogs at Weather Underground:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

The interesting thing is that the ice broke away in 2005, but they just noticed last week:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/28/tech-ellesmereiceshelfcollapse-20061228.html

The collapse of the Ayles shelf — one of six that still existed in Canada — occurred 16 months ago, on Aug. 13, 2005, but because it is so remote, no one saw it.

 

[Teegate]

Boyd,

The property in gray south of 70 no longer is part of Ft. Dix. They deeded it to the state in 1976. They still have control of that radar unit and the road leading to it. The Hanover 1824 stone was located at the very bottom right corner of that gray area until someone felt they had more rights to it than the rest of us.

This is a description of the Hanover 1824 stone’s location and other info. Since it is no longer there I see no reason not to post it. I wish that was not the case.

Guy

 

[Boyd]

The property in gray south of 70 no longer is part of Ft. Dix. They deeded it to the state in 1976.

Thanks Guy - I guess that's why I wasn't aware that Ft. Dix went south of Rt 70

 

[james ungehajer]

thank the heavens there are now ice patrols,also the requirement that there has to be enough lifeboats for the passengers on board,its a shame that the world had to lose all those people from the titanic!! i also wonder what would have happened to the ship if it hit the iceberg head on.had to beat the atlantic crossing speed record.i also did not know that fort dix's property went south of rt.70.

 

[Boyd]

Reviving an old thread

Here's a really cool National Weather Service site I just found that shows you everything they know about current and future weather in a graphical or text format. This is their browser interface to the National Digital Forecast Database:

http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/sectors/

Run the mouse over (without clicking) the little maps below the big one and you can see chance of precip, temperature, wind speed, etc. Pretty cool.

Now click the mouse on any region to zoom in. You can zoom way in by clicking several times. Then you mouse over the time of day for the different items in the table to the left to display them on the map. Lots of other stuff there too - use the tabs to select radars, etc. Click the Get Text Forecast button and then you can click anywhere to see the text weather forecast. Just about everything you could want to know about the weather!

 

[BEHR655]

Cool! Thanks.

Steve