• 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.

Python and Weather

This post isn't really related to the main topic of this thread, but this is a good place to throw this in:
What you may think is "noise" in the divergence field is likely signal that the surface stations are poorly resolving. Check out the surface divergence field from a 3 km WRF simulation in this image. And this is just at 3 km grid spacing. If you went down to < 1 km, you'd see even more detail/"noise". So don't be discouraged if your plots don't turn out the way you expected. It may be legitimate!


Thanks for posting that Jeff!
I honestly had no clue the divergence field was actually that "noisy" - I honestly expected things to be more broad/synoptic scale, especially on the 30km grid I'm using. I'm now less skeptical when I look at the divergence plot now knowing it may in fact be legitimate.
Once again, thanks!
 
For those of you interested, I have released the code being used to make these plots. This is a pre-alpha release and is currently un-documented; If you are interested in perusing or modifying code, I'd recommend waiting for the later release that includes proper documentation.

Blog Link: http://wp.me/pEaPJ-JK
GitHub Link: https://github.com/keltonhalbert/AWIDS

Installation instructions are in the README. Links to the required packages are included. Right now it has only been tested on Unix/Linux systems, but Python and the other required packages are usable on Windows. If anyone with experience in Python on Windows would like to test it, be my guest!

Good luck, and let me know how it goes!
 
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