WAVE tower visible in cam

I've moved the camera to a southwesterly view. You can now see the WAVE-TV broadcast tower which is about 1 mile away from us. The tower is 1820 feet tall. If you switch to the live stream view, you'll see the tower lights flashing at night. Much of our weather comes from this direction so it might provide some interesting views. On the downside, we're getting quite a bright flare from the sun in the afternoon. We'll leave this shot locked for awhile and see what develops as the season progresses.

Mucho radar work

I haven't written here for quite some time (how often do you see THAT in blogs?), because I've been working on refining the radar images on the site. This hobby has thrown me not only into graphics, in which I have some experience, but also into mapping and geography. If you check out the doppler radar image you'll see a new topographical background. I've also added regional temperature readings. This took up all of the past weekend when I wasn't painting our guest bathroom.

Stormy anniversary

This is the anniversary of the the tornado outbreak of 1974.
Luckily, nothing like that today.

It was interesting to use our new radar display (GRLevel3) to zoom in on our local area as the storms were hitting. Click on the image to more clearly see this capture from 6:03PM. Notice the detail between Westport and Sycamore Run, just as we received the worst of the rain and wind.

These images are really nothing new. But it's pretty cool to have control of the images from this end and not rely on a broadcaster to feed them to us.