The National Weather Service in Birmingham, AL requests ALERT activation tonight at 10pm through overnight.The National Weather Service in Birmingham, AL requests ALERT activation tonight at 10pm through overnight. Continue reading
The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm CST on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010.
If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.
Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:
Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083.
The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm CST on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010.
If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.
Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:
Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083.The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm CST on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010.
If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.
Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:
Continue reading
The National Weather Service has started an experimental program for submitting storm reports via Twitter!
Details can be found here.
GeoTagging (more from Twitter) is the act of associating geographical information with something, and Twitter has recently added the capability GeoTagging individual Tweets. This allows the NWS to correlate each Tweet to your location when it was sent. This capability will help to enhance and increase timely & accurate online weather reporting and communications between the public and their local weather forecast offices.If Geotagging is available on your 3rd party Twitter application:If Geotagging is NOT available on your 3rd party Twitter application:
- First make sure geotagging is turned on for your 3rd party Twitter app.
- Second make sure geotagging is turned on for your twitter account page.
- Through the web page: http://twitter.com/account/settings
- From your mobile device: http://twitter.com/account/settings/geo
- Now Submit your Tweet report via your 3rd party app in the following format: #wxreport <your signifcant weather report>
- Log in to your twitter account via the web or mobile device.
- Submit your Tweet report in the following format: Continue reading
NEW 1 Inch Hail Criteria
On January 4th, 2010, at 6:01 pm, all National Weather Service forecast offices will operationally change the minimum hail size criterion used to issue severe thunderstorm warnings from 3/4 inch (penny sized) diameter or larger hail to 1 inch (quarter sized) diameter or larger.
No change is being made to the severe thunderstorm warning criterion of wind gusts equal to or in excess of 58 miles per hour.
For more details see http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=oneinchhail
Mark / WD4NYL
President of ALERT
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