Local weather web site gets new look

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Tuesday, August 3. 2010
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Al Mieger, the Barrow County Skywarn coordinator, recently announced a major redesign of the Barrow County weather site, www.barrowcountyweather. com.

The web site, which has been in operation for the past three years, is updated approximately every ten seconds in order to provide real time weather data.

The site also features a storm tracker option which is linked to a lightning detection system. According to Mieger, it is the only one in the county. Mieger said the lightning detection system is a useful tool during stormy weather.

Other features include advisories and weather alerts issued by the National Weather Service and forecast information generated by data collected at Mieger’s weather station. Mieger uses modeling software which is customized for this area to produce an accurate, local forecast.

The site provides information 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is backed up by emergency power.

Mieger also manages two other web sites, www.BarrowCountySkywarn. net and www.TriCountyARC. com.
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#1 Anonymous on 08/03/10 at 06:29 AM [Reply]
Boy I hope the tax payers are paying for this. I just checked it out and get the same information on weather.com
#1.1 Anonymous on 08/03/10 at 08:10 AM [Reply]
should have been hope the tax payers are NOT paying for this
#1.2 NICE! on 08/03/10 at 09:58 AM [Reply]
He pays for it out of his own pocket you ignorant jerk...
#1.2.1 Fair weather friends on 08/03/10 at 12:24 PM [Reply]
Seems if all Barrow County folk are gun shy. It is a sad day when everything revolves around this county and its politics.
#1.3 Al on 08/04/10 at 09:51 AM [Reply]
No this is not funded by the County in any manner. it is a privately owned and operated station and website.

Station owner...
#2 Anonymous on 08/03/10 at 08:28 AM [Reply]
Domains and shared hosting are cheap, and a script to pull data from NOAA's website is free.

From the looks of it, the site is just to provide weather information for his radio club.
#2.1 Al on 08/04/10 at 10:02 AM [Reply]
Once again this site is privately owned and operated and gets no funding from the county!

Also, yes domains and hosting is inexpensive. However, this site pulls very little data from the NWS. The vast majority of the data is generated from the weather station and supporting hardware and software systems.

The site has nothing to do with Amatuer Radio! It is there as a public service just like most any other weather information on the internet except you are not being sold anything :)
#3 Anonymous on 08/04/10 at 09:24 AM [Reply]
This is fantastic! We have needed something like this for a long time; I finally have a place I can go to for weather specific for my area; awesome site!
#4 Don on 08/04/10 at 10:27 PM [Reply]
Al, I have been using your weather site for several years. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into it.
#5 B-ran on 08/05/10 at 03:08 PM [Reply]
I didn't know this website existed. But I like it. I especially like the earthquake activity page, interesting. Thanks AL!
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