• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

GR Earth previews (Gibson Ridge)

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Steve,

If you are a GRx owner, trials are starting to be sent out via email; look at the owner's forum, as there is now a brand new GREarth forum that is now there for your viewing. The site is a tad slow...I wonder why? ;-)
 
And as soon as I typed that, GREarth has been released. Trials are being given to those who want it, for 3 weeks. Head to the GRX owners forum for details.
 
I just have it downloaded and I'm looking around.. it's... awesome. Cant wait to try it out with a code!
 
Yeah, I downloaded it too and it looks like a very interesting program. Like Aaron, I can't wait to get the code.
 
Got the code and it seems like a great program. As with the other programs, Mike worked hard on this and it shows. By the way, the price is 180.00 a year. Equivalent to 15 bucks a month.
 
Just a quick review.

I got my trial version in today for GREarth and I have to say it is quite amazing.

I can see the argument of people opposing paying for data that you can get for "Free" A tightwad like myself I have always been biased on not paying, especially a yearly or monthly subscription to wx data when I can obtain it for free especially meso data which I can obtain from SPC. Yet I will more than likely purchase this program simply b/c you have everything you possibly need to gather both radar, satellite, meso and synoptic data whether it be for chasing, forecasting, what have you. 180 for a yearly subscription is quite a conservative cost IMO.

As far as resources.. I am running win xp 32bit w/ 4gig although only using 3.25 max.. With GREarth running full blast (looping multiple overlays) it is using less RAM than my firefox browser. GREarth aquiring ~900k ram while firefox using right at 1meg.. Although I am running ton of tabs on my firefox.

I have yet to see any immediate gripes w/ the program in just using it for a couple hours. But I am sure w/ more usage will come questions.

As usual Mike and company who have developed/helped develop this program, much kudos.. Keep up the good work. I myself am very appreciative of the manipulation of weather data in such an awesome program.

Has anybody else obtained a trial?? If so I am curious to how you like it.. Are you going to purchase a subscription?? What questions do you have about it/ if any..
 
I received my subscription last Friday. I hope to purchase it after the trial. The data packed into the application is impressive and all the data downloads smoothly on a mobile broadband connection. The precip typing looks like (from what I have seen in the past) that it is fairly accurate, which will be very useful during the winter, assuming the RUC doesn't screw up. Here is a screenshot of soon-to-be Tropical Storm Nicole:

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Bart, do you own any GrlevelX products? If not, it may be a while. Mike is approving the trial keys quickly to those that currently own or have owned GrlevelX products in the past.
 
Jim - you might take a look at the GRLevelX forums, there are threads about the timing there. He is being overwhelmed with requests, and it is a largely manual process (plus my guess is he doesn't want to hammer the server with an extraordinary and unrealistic number of test users at once.)
 
Jim Parsons said:
Anyone know how long it has been taking to hear back with a trial key...I already have GRLevel 3 & GRLevel 2 Analyst.
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Mike said on the owner's forum that it could be a few hours to a few weeks depending on server load, number of users, time you've owned the software, etc. He's out of his office from October 2nd through the 7th and during that time he won't be sending out any more Trial IDs.
 
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The precip-tying is doing well this afternoon in the mountains of the West. The NWS forecasts are in agreement. It is interesting to note that this type of classification uses a probabilistic approach and gives the likelihood of rain (greens) vs. snow (blues and pinks). The more green in an area with a few specks of blues and pinks yields a low overall probability of snowfall at that location while more numerous areas of blues and pinks with green indicates a higher likelihood of that specific type of precipitation.

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I'm not sure that it's doing ptype probabilities, I think it's just a better way of drawing rain/snow lines.
 
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