| What
is New at Georgia Skies |
- 7/30/03 - Updated Hurricane page to reflect 2003 season.
- 5/1/03 - Updated CAPS broken links on the surface
page. Added re-worked Plains Chase page.
- 3/20/03 - Corrected links to Offl-Eta data (only goes out to 48 hr). Added
some SST links to Ocean page.
- 2/24/03 - Corrected link to archived data on menu.
- 2/18/03 - Added US Drought Monitor and USGS Stream flow graphical products
to hydro page.
- 1/29/03 - Added links to polar orbiters on satellite
page. Updated some model links (SREF) and added a telleconnection data link
to the model page. Added a few links to the aviation
weather page.
- 1/10/03 - Added Plymouth State radar data links to radar page. A few
additional links elsewhere on satellite and radar pages.
- 12/19/02 - Seasonal clean-up finished. Refreshed or deleted bad links
throughout the site.
- 6/25/02 - Updated Hurricane page to reflect 2002 season.
- 5/9/02 - Added a plethora of links from Univ. Arizona. Mainly added links
to the storm chase page but also
to the radar (they are hidden hotlinks around the US
map) and a couple to the upper air and satellite
page.
- 5/8/02 - New look to the radar page. Added a java
script menu that allows one to choose from 4 providers: NWS, NCAR, WSI, and
Weathertap. Also, continued to clean up various links around the site.
- 5/5/02 - Created links to LAPS data on the surface
page. Also, updated Storm
Chase page (used for lap top use when chasing). Updated model page to
reflect that the mesoeta is now officially just the 6
& 18 Z runs of the eta. Updated links to the off-eta
from COD.
- 5/3/02 - Created a NCEP model loops page and
linked it from the models page. Contains links to java animated loops of
NCEP's GEMPAK graphics.
- 4/30/02 - Added and Archived Data page to the menu bar along with the page
itself. Page is just a list of various archived data sources I have come
across.
- 4/22/02 - Added FSL Java raob tool link to raob page.
- 4/13/02 - Updated ECMWF links (some were broken) as well as made a few
cosmetic changes to a few pages (namely, svr wx page).
- 3/15/02 - Updated Unisys MRF links again.
- 3/11/02 - Added new menu for severe weather ... Georgia
Skies Severe Weather Parameters Menu. Updated some of the Unisys
MRF links.
- 3/9/02 - Added NWS's new severe weather menu to a new
page and added link to current wx and severe
wx pages.
- 3/1/02 - Added FSL Mesonet
Data link to surface page. Cleaned up some
images and links. Added FSL Laps links to the bottom of the surface page.
- 2/28/02 - Updated broken links to COD surface
and upper air data. Added gif background to frontpage
for aesthetics. Added link to nice, new
NCEP model data on the model page.
- 2/7/02 - Added a severe wx analysis page link from Garner on the model
page. Added some links to PSU maps on the upper air and ruc 1 page.
- 12/20/01 - Added UTC Java Clock to front page and to model page.
- 12/19/01 - Finished updating all COD model links including NGM, AVN, and
ECMWF. Added Upper Air
Maps from StormEyes.org.
- 12/18/01 - Updated Al Pietrycha's surface link. [removed 3/02 b/c not
working any more]
- 12/14-15/01 - Updated all COD Eta, MesoEta, and RUC links. Also added new
images and loops that COD is making. Updated some links on the forecast page
(HPC links mainly).
- 11/17/01 - Added some more COD MRF links inlcluding loops to the MRF
page. Added AVN/Eta thickness page. Corrected
winter wx links on forecast page. Added 3 day outlook graphic to severwx
page.
- 9/25/01 - Added link to John Garner's Eta
Severe Weather Page
- 9/12/01 - Added link to NRL
Hurricane Page and Satellite
Data pages to Hurricane and Satellite
pages.
- 9/3/01 - Added Northeast/North Central ADAS data from CAPS to surface
page.
- 9/2/01 - Updated HPC links on forecast page.
- 8/21/01 - Added beautiful surface plots by Al Pietrycha
to the surface page.
- 8/21/01 - Added/Updated ECMWF links from COD
- 7/3/01 - Created RUC II page 3 just for Southeast
Products. So we now have three RUC pages: CONUS, Plains, and SE. Added CONUS
RUC product from COD. Added "Motherlode" to radar page.
- 6/13/01 - Updated various links around the site including links on: raob,
surface, forecast, profiler, and difax pages. Added SERFC QPF products to
forecast page.
- 6/10/01 - Added a Fire Weather page.
- 6/6/01 - Updated Intellicast radar links. Added "Tornado
Alley Wx Products" website link to the bottom of the severe weather
page. Added new menu: Severe
Wx Parameters Menu (courtesy of
John Garner - UNL). Updated hurricane page to
reflect 2001.
- 5/11-14/01 - Updated lots-o-stuff on the model page and upper-air page.
Updated all COD links to reflect server change.
- 4/9/01 - Added link to Canadian
Radars on the Radar Page.
- 4/6/01 - Updated ECMWF model page (added
TAMU), changed some satellite links. Created
this page.
- 4/4/01 - Overhauled the RUC/MAPS model page. Added
experimental, 20-km RUC data and changed FSL links to the southeast region.
| The
History of Georgia Skies |
Georgia Skies was originally a web site created by Tom
Mote (Associate Prof., Geography) in 1996 that contained links to
real-time weather information for Athens as well as model, satellite, and text
data for the country. That site has since passed on [it has actually
become the web server for our forecast
contest] and has been replaced by what you see now. The Athens, GA, weather
information has been moved to its own home.
The version of Georgia Skies you see now was actually originally developed by me
at the Meteorology/Climatology Program at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The site,
at that time, was called NEVIT
[stands for Nebraska Vortex Intercept Team - yes, the name was dreamt up around
several pitchers of Milwaukee's finest]. NEVIT, as it stands now, has received a
facelift (not by me) but has really fell into disrepair as far as links are
concerned. By the way, NEVIT was originally just a group of graduate students at
UNL that enjoyed chasing when we got a chance. It seems to have take on
its own life now. So, as the story goes, when I moved to UGA, I brought NEVIT
with me, gave it a spruce up (uhhh, changed color scheme and, of course, the
name) and stuck it on the server at uga.edu. Note that I am always updating the
broken links and/or adding new links. Most of those changes will be referenced
on this page. Hope you enjoy it and find it useful ... Walker