• 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.

Sources of close-up IR imagery?

Tim Vasquez

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What do we have for really good, zoomed in IR imagery?

With those three sites it's easy to pick out the lakes in TX and OK this morning.
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/displaySat.php?region=ABI&itype=ir
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseastconusir.html
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/GOES/EAST/sc.html

But with other sites, they don't cut it -- not zoomed in enough and not enough shades on the palettte:
http://weather.cod.edu/satellite/regional/southcentral-ir.gif
http://www.weathertap.com/satellite/SATEUSIR4.html
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ECIR4.html

Where can we see more of the former, and less of the latter? I find I'm putting my IR use to the test finding the borders of this mid-cloud layer currently in Oklahoma (the UCAR image style below is the best quality I've found so far for this purpose):

Tim

g12.2008339.1332_ABI_ir.jpg
 
I can have my GEMPAK box automate those for a few days if you need and upload to a webpage - just rough out an area that you want covered.
 
Well, it's nothing I need right now... just a source where I (or any of us) can go to in the future when we need such an image.

Interestingly this altocumulus deck we have in Oklahoma seems to not be accounted for in the NWS zone forecasts... I'm doubtful we're going to make our afternoon high.

Tim
 
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