Why the weather info?

This was created from a collection of stuff that I regularly check to find the likelihood of nasty weather brewing in the area. Since I didn't have anything interesting on my home page, and this might be useful to someone, I learned enough HTML to create this page.

If you have any useful, constructive comments or suggestions related to this page, by all means send 'em along to me here.

You can also often find me monitoring 147.120 (ham radio repeater used by storm spotters).

147.120 Mhz is the output frequency of a repeater on Conifer mountain which belongs to the Aurora repeater group (Colorado), who are kind enough to let the storm spotters and NWS use it to coordinate their activities and report severe weather so the rest of us can have a bit of warning when something nasty is heading our way.

If you're interested in that massive tower of cloud heading your way, or wondering about that swirling mass of black clouds above you, you might consider listening to this repeater. If you're an amateur radio operator, you'll know how to find it. Otherwise, if you have a scanner that covers VHF, add 147.120 to it now and turn it on when the weather kicks up in the afternoon. SKYWARN spotters aren't roaming about every day, just when there's a reasonable chance of severe weather.

"How do I know if there's a reasonable chance of severe weather?", you ask.

That's the whole point of these pages. A quick place to check is the 'Special Weather' link over to the left. The NWS usually indicates whether spotters are needed each day.