• 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.

Tom Skilling

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Found this on another site. This was a recent interview with WGN (Chicago) chief meteorologist Tom Skilling. Without a doubt my alltime favorite on-camera meteorologist. In my opintion, few can match his enthusiasm and on-camera weather presentation.

Here's the podcast with the interview. For you fellow Skilling fans, you'll definitely find this interesting...

http://www.weatherbrains.com/audio/wb090109.mp3
 
Tom is the man. I cant think of someone more passionate about their job than him. His daily blog is very informative although Im not sure it will be much value outside of local residents but you can check it out here:

http://weblogs.wgntv.com/chicago-weather/tom-skilling-blog/

Chicago really is lucky to have such an awesome lead meteorologist. He used to do a segment called "Before the forecast" Where he would record himself as he glances over the many models and amazing data he has access to and would give his input on what he sees and what it means - I actually learned quite a bit from watching those and I wish he still did them.
 
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