Lake City Weather dot Com

Hurricane season (right?)

Not that I am complaining or anything, but... Does anyone else think this is odd? We're into August and only 1 Tropical Storm has occurred in the Atlantic. Nothing in the Gulf. Oh yeah, right, forgot. Global Warming is the reason. My bad.

New updates to the site.

Chances are good you have noticed the changes made to the site recently. Today I set up the "REAL TIME" display. I say real time, but it actually updates every 5 seconds or so WITHOUT having to refresh the screen!

I made some changes to the weather maps. I chose Accuweather for the State, Regional, and National maps. The Warning maps now come directly from the National Weather Service (complete with legend now). The GAS PRICES map actually stays on the menu now.

We're pulling data from ALL kinds of sources now. Some maps now are from Weather Underground, NWS, USGS, and a few others.

Chances are there are still some problems lurking in the code somewhere, but as I see them, I will correct them. If you happen to see something that just don't look right, click the CONTACT US link in the menu and let me know!

This site is AWESOME!

You guys have been around since 2004!?!? WOW! I love this site. Keep up the great work! I'll be spreading the word that's for sure.

--JD

Local gas price map

We have a new menu section called Gas Prices. This is a map that will show local gas prices that are entered from users of gasbuddy.com. Gasbuddy also gets current prices from many other sources and they create a nice map of the area that shows what the gas price ranges are across the country. You can zoom in and out on the map. I set the default zoom to show more of just our area.

The 10th Annual SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) Special Event will take place Satu

Monday, December 8, 2008 / 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM The 10th Annual SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) Special Event will take place Saturday, December 6, 2008. SRD is co-sponsored by the ARRL and the National Weather Service (NWS) as a way to recognize the commitment made by Amateur Radio operators in helping to keep their communities safe. According to SRD Coordinator David Floyd, N5DBZ, Amateur Radio operators can visit their local participating NWS office, working as a team to contact other hams across the world throughout the 24 hour event. Last year, contacts were made in all 50 states and 40 countries during the 24 hour event.

Check out Be On The Look Out For

Many people have asked what is "Be On The Look Out For"... The answer? We are a Florida based Corporation dedicated to finding missing children and other individuals. We have BIG plans, however, due to the lack of funding, we're re-evaluating how we're going to launch. I encourage everyone to visit the website and KEEP visiting it since it updates literally all hours of the day. We're going to be posting a very important and quite possibly something of high interest to the public soon.

http://beonthelookoutfor.com

For the most part, Fay is done with us....

Well, there are 2 things I have found that has come from Fay.. #1, we're no longer in a drought situation. After dumping as much as 33 inches of rain in parts of FL, this should take care of the drought in big ways. Now I wonder about the sink holes.... #2, Fay took out a lot of the election signs. I knew there was a reason I was hoping for a bigger storm. If she was just a bit bigger, she would have taken them ALL down.

Fay is missing us? Think again!

Tropical Storm Fay is making it difficult to allow us to know what to do. First while it was still in the Cuba area, the storm was projected to come directly for us. Now when we think we're in the clear, it's projected to move across the state into the Atlantic, then cut back into Florida or southern Georgia and go right over top of us that way.
Well, at least we need the rain! This should take care of any drought we have.
People, be safe out there and don't do anything stupid....

Tropical Storm FAY on her WAY....

TS Fay is forecast to come extremely close if not on top of us starting Tuesday of this upcoming week. We recommend preparing for it now. Some projections show the storm could hit a CAT 3 by the time it reaches us. In other words, this will be something bad. NEVER consider the possibilities that the storm will miss us. Rather expect it to hit. People that wait till the last minute usually stands to loose the most... including their life or that of a loved one!

LakeCityWeather dot Com Featured in LakeCityJournal.com

Lake City Weather dot Com has a story write up in the LakeCityJournal.com website. We are glad to hear that word is finally spreading into our community about LCW. LCW started back in April 2004 and really has only spread by word of mouth. Today, at any given time, anywhere from 10-80 people are viewing the site. Thank you Lake City Journal and the Lake City community.

http://lakecityjournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=73&ArticleID=3535

--Wes