• 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.

Sounding Problems

Wow! Don't like the sound of that at all.

I wonder if this is typical bureaucratic incompetence, or if something else is going on.

I also wonder if this might have something to do with some of the strange things noted by others happening in the forecast models. As computer programmers say, "Garbage In, Garbabage Out."
 
MPX is using the new sounding system, and their 18Z special severe weather sounding had no wind data...
 
How convenient, right? Sigh... Yeah, there have been a decent number of other 'issues' with it, especially from having been one of the first ones. One of the issues we thought would be better was the tracking, but that isn't much better, so lots of lost data and bad launches. I'm not sure what the specific problem was today. I've definitely noticed the surface 'spikes' mentioned though.

-John
 
Nice of Nsharp to finish that up for us, wasn't it? Yeah... Pretty bad. Good thing we fund the profilers and are expanding the network... Oh, wait...

-John
 
Nice of NWS HQ to keep us informed of the "issues" too (or do they call them "bonus features"?) Hard to blame Nsharp -- can't imagine it expected too many soundings that miss 90% of the wind data ;>
 
rdale said:
Nice of NWS HQ to keep us informed of the "issues" too (or do they call them "bonus features"?) Hard to blame Nsharp -- can't imagine it expected too many soundings that miss 90% of the wind data ;>
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So it can't handle the soundings from the old systems when the wind is missing due to limiting angles?
 
It can handle a level or two of missing winds by interpolating the gaps... This "gap" is the entire sounding, which happens more often than ever with the new system.
 
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