• 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 software

While Gempak had promise, the problem I ran into when attempting to run it on my home PC and pulling data from the internet was finding out after the fact that one really needs a NOAAPORT feed to even remotly make Gempak useful. The main problem as I see it is that the data needed for any of these software packages is not always available through the internet. Am I missing something?
 
Yep - everything needed is out there. At last check the model data sent via NOAAPORT is of lower resolution than what you can get online. My package provides 12km NAM, highest resolution RUC/GFS, full surface / sat / radar imagery, soundings, profilers, etc. All online.
 
Rumor has it that someone is making an open source, cross platform version of NSHARP.... If only that guy would hurry up and finish!
 
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