Comments on: Radar / Futurecast

By: Trevar, Cave Spring 1400'

Trevar, Cave Spring 1400' — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:14:06 +0000

Kevin, I think I am very near you, and at about the same elevation. My outside thermometer has shown 36 for the last several hours, but my car was showing 32. What are you reading at your house?

By: Pat Johnston

Pat Johnston — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:15:54 +0000

Roads look O.K.! Need to go pick up my medicine! Should I try/ Or should I stay home? Hollins College Area!

By: C. Ambers

C. Ambers — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:49:51 +0000

Still, nothing beats the plain old radar from NOAA for speed:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar_lite.php?product=N0R&rid=FCX&loop=no

By: Kevin Myatt

Kevin Myatt — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:20:20 +0000

It may be stuck on date in which this was intoduced. Forecast with daily blog entry doeschang. I’ll have technical folks check it out.

By: L Manning

L Manning — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:45:24 +0000

I was just wondering why there is an April weather forecast at the top of this page. Shouldn’t that change daily.

By: Kevin Myatt

Kevin Myatt — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:42:52 +0000

Rigel: You can pause it by moving the cursor to press the same button that makes it start running. You can also manually click along the line in front of the button showing the advance of the Future Cast at any point to show just that time. I’ve paused it several times and even screen-grabbed individual frames.

By: Rigel Morgan

Rigel Morgan — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:17:32 +0000

I’ve found the future cast to be of no help to me since it races through a 48 hour time period in a matter of seconds and it’s not possible to slow it down or pause it to see WHEN that rain is coming and how long it will last.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:39:04 +0000

Watched 3 updates (6:17, 6:23, 6:29) as a cell over Roanoke ballooned and headed north up the valley…

6:17 had nothing on the radar within 5 miles of downtown. By 6:19 in my location in Bonsack was pouring heavily. The 6:23 update finally showed heavy rain but more towards downtown Roanoke and not really to my location. By 6:29 update it had the heavy part over Bonsack but in reality a little north of my location by now. So the radar / map sync is a little off in my opinion and with the 6 minute updates tough to see these intense flare ups cycling through correctly.

By: Kevin Myatt

Kevin Myatt — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:18:23 +0000

Smith Mountain Lake appears clearly if you adjust the magnification up a notch, and shift the map a hair east. The more it’s magnified, the more detail appears, including individual roads and small communities. The map underlying the radar is supplied by Bing, the radar itself is supplied by Weather Central in Madison, Wisc.

By: L Manning

L Manning — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:14:27 +0000

Could you put Smith Mountain Lake on the map?