• 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.

NWS website - problems with going mobile

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Interesting article from, of all sites, Mashable, regarding updates and upgrades to the NWS website.

http://mashable.com/2015/03/19/national-weather-service-popular/

In the article, NWS director Louis Uccellini admits that the warning and forecast dissemination system. Additionally there is talk regarding the difficulty the NWS has faced updating the website due to conflicts with private sector entities like AccuWeather. This conflict was actually part of a recent WeatherBrains episode (
). I would like to open discussion on the nature of the conflict between public sector meteorology (basically, NOAA/NWS) and private sector. The private sector relies heavily on data and products created by public sector entities, yet they turn around and want to limit what the public sector can then do. Please, discuss.
 
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