• 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.

Weather Model Software

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Data Software..

I am going to try the Linux set up on an older machine in my shop and see how well it handles the GEMPACK software. I have not heard of this before and am just really getting into this side of the weather. For many years I have been nothing more than a radar and ground observation type. I guess that comes from the Emergency Service side of things since I normally provide real time weather data for public safety in the area as well as my own troops.

Thanks for all the pointers guys and feel free to keep educating the newb...

C. R. Vaughan
Chief, Cuba Fire
 
I have been using metwise..its a pretty cool program that takes a little while to learn how it works but has detailed directions on the site.. but the model runs are good and color filled if you want..its about 10 bucks a mo. and free trial time. also has radar and satl. shots etc etc.
Have yet to try F5.

http://extremeforecasting.com/net/pdf.htm
 
I just ran across this thread... I'm the developer of F5. I appreciate the kudos about the software and about myself.

Just wanted to give an update that the latest greatest version of F5 is indeed in the works. I have a completely new, better, more user friendly and more feature filled interface already designed, and am aiming at a launch around Valentine's Day.

It will include GFS every 3 hours out to 180 and then every 12 hours from there out to 384 hours... which is the entire data set that NCEP produces. From that data we calculate another 130 or so parameters both winter and severe weather focused, giving a total of around 160 map types to choose from any given forecast hour.

Many other features are going to be included, but I too am quite excited about the high resolution GFS to work with on those additional calculated parameters for the severe weather season.

GFS has well outperformed NAM-WRF in recent years. I fear they tweaked NAM too much. There was a year or two in there where it worked flawlessly for severe weather, but now good ole GFS seems to be the model to beat.
 
Wow.....glad to see that you are bringing out the GFS into your model software suite. I'm also glad to see that you are bringing another user interface to the table. I can't wait!
 
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