As some of you may know, there was a major data center outage at some of the offices within the National Weather Service (NWS). This caused a disruption in some weather guidance in WeatherSpork that has continued into this morning. The Aviation Weather Center (AWC) was disrupted along with the Weather Prediction Center (WPC). ...
Month: August 2018
Using the Skew-T diagram in the WeatherSpork app
The Skew-T diagram is an excellent resource for pilots to use as a drill down tool to discover the potential of adverse weather at a particular location. Keep in mind that the big weather picture is still more important and the Skew-T is just a supplementary tool to fill in some of the details...
Convective outflow boundaries
When thunderstorms develop and evolve, their “exhaust” is cold dense air flowing down through the storm, striking the ground and moving outward away from the storm. To better understand this, imagine pouring pancake batter onto a griddle. The edge of that pancake is the outflow boundary which is essentially a gust front of sorts. ...
HREF outage in WeatherSpork Imagery view
Over the past several days, the HREF products have been unavailable in the Imagery view. They are provided by NOAA and are generated by a non-operational or experimental platform which makes them vulnerable to have outages from time to time. Here’s the statement provided by NOAA… “Once again the NCEP development computer is unavailable...
Decoding of date-time stamps, better favorite names and support of hourly grid view in WeatherSpork version 4.4.2
WeatherSpork release 4.4.2 is now available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store! Here are some of the new features and enhancements you’ll find in this release. Decoded date-time stamps within Imagery view Perhaps one of the biggest WeatherSpork customer pet peeves is learning how to decode all of the different date-time...
Easier decoding of valid times on static weather imagery
You won’t find a more comprehensive set of weather imagery anywhere online than you will find in the WeatherSpork app. But there is a slight downside to that. Each flavor of weather guidance in the app comes with a potentially unique date-time stamp shown at a different location on the chart. Moreover, at times it...
Release notes for WeatherSpork version 4.4.2
Added labels to the Imagery view to decode date-time stamps for most forecast weather guidance. Changed the names/titles of some products in the Imagery view to be less ambiguous when creating a favorite. Modified favorite titles for Meteograms to be more explicit to now say 1 day and 3 day. Made improvements to Imagery...
July 2018 SporkNews
If you are new to WeatherSpork, welcome to the family! This e-Newsletter will be sent out at the beginning of each month to keep you updated on the new features and content provided by WeatherSpork. We hope the app has made finding the most opportune time to depart a simple and easy process. The month...