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No More
Hurricane Warning!
09/01/11 - We are back!
Again?
We made it though everything.
Well almost. We never lost power, but however Monday at about 830PM,
all cable went out. We had no phones, internet access or TV...
Ironic how we kept electric, but lost access. Only other thing we
can say is, Blah! No more of this. We also have minor flooding, so
we will be in clean up mode for awhile. We were surrounded by water
and we fought to keep it away. Now let's get back to normal.
On another note, just
like to say thank you to all the first responders, volunteers and
the US Army National Guard for all they've done, (and still doing
the fine
job of finishing up their efforts)...
Great job ladies and gentlemen!
08/29/11 - We
survived Irene!
Unscathed with minimal mess. But the waters will
not miss. Be prepared for cresting of our waters by Tuesday
afternoon. It will be the worse of the worse floods we've seen in
quite some time. People in flood prone areas know what to do.
08/24/11
- Start getting prepared now for the weekends
arrival of Hurricane Irene. While we are not exactly sure of it's
path, it could very well give us winds up to 85mph. That's high for
this area. We never reach those levels. Start getting ready to
batten down the hatches. Stow all loose furnishings outside. Lawn
furniture and other items can become weapons and end up though
windows. This holds true to anything not nailed down; pool toys,
children's toys, etc. If you have tents, gazebos, etc... tie them
down and if possible, remove the canvas roofs.
Prepare yourself inside too. Have fresh water on hand. Charge and
replace any batteries you have for radios, flashlights, etc. During
the storm, shut down any electrical items not needed. Brown out
power surges can damage your electronics. These are just some of the
things. Please listen to your local weather station and if you have
a weather radio, tune into 166.550Mhz for up to date reports
from NOAA Weather. Would like a weather radio? NOAA has some advice
on this.
Go to this link for info:
http://www.weather.gov/nwr/nwrrcvr.htm
08/23/11
Shake, Rattle
and Rumble!
Wow! That's not the only
thing I said. I was shocked not knowing what was going on. I've
lived here in WP over 53 years and have never experienced a quake
anywhere. So this was a new experience for sure! At about 1:54pm,
the couch started shaking. I started getting dizzy. I had no clue
what was going on. I thought I was getting sick. Then once I
realized it wasn't me, I noticed the table next to me shaking. The
couch was shaking. Window blinds where rattling, the house rumbled,
etc. I murmured a few choice words and got a grip. Low and behold,
an earthquake. Later to find out, a 5.8 magnitude one. It's not that
uncommon we get quakes, but never of this magnitude. Usually they
appear in the wee hours of the morning when we are asleep and we
never notice them. Usually 3.0 magnitude or less. This happens
around the Ramapo Fault Line. but this biggy originated in Virginia
and was felt for miles. Let's hope this was the worse and leave it
at that. Stay safe in the mean time...
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So what else is new?
Well, not new anymore, but they seem to be hits that people check
out daily.
Our latest
additions to our site have been a smash hit. Our Live Storm Tracking
has been showing us real live thunderstorm tracking and lightning
strikes 24 hours a day! ....
If you haven't checked this out yet, you're missing
one heck of a graphic view of our local and regional
storms. It's capable of accurately depicting and
tracking storms up to 375 miles in all directions from
our station. We can even go as far as 750 miles, but not
accurately. Check it out if you haven't already! Our
Extreme Trac is graphic intense, but it's the most data
driven layout we have. Be patient while it loads and
make sure you have java enabled. If not, just use our
static Trac. Might not be as colorful, but it's still
informative.
..also
"Weather,
The Movie".
You can now watch yesterdays weather all in less than a minute. Go to Live Data > Wx Cam menu and select Yesterday's
Wx Movie!
It's time lapsed and it's neat! Please be patient while
it loads!
Our site, specifically our
Live Weather page was featured
in the
Davis
Nov/2002 Newsletter as their new favorite weather site.
Click the above links to check it out!
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05/17/10
- The Weather Movie is back and
functional! A fresh new movie should be available tomorrow morning.
05/01/10
- New camera interface solved the
problem with the WX Cam. Nice picture again. But now the Wx Movie is
broke. Ugh. Trying to resolve that. It's a software issue.
04/23/10
- Back Online
Most of our data is back online a couple days early, but looks like
our camera is dying slowly. We'll keep working on it. But it may
just be getting old.
04/16/10 Notice
- On or about 04/21/10, there will be
interruptions in our weather data site. We will be relocating the
weather server and installing all software on a different system.
There is a lot of data to transfer as well as software to reinstall.
We hope to be done by the end of 04/25/10 or sooner with minor
glitches being cleaned up that week. Please accept our apologies
during those times. We are trying to improve our system and
sometimes these minor interruptions are unavoidable. - Thank you for
your patience.
12/21/09
- RSS Feed
If anyone is subscribed to our
RSS feed, please re-subscribe with the link attached to the RSS icon
up top. We were using Feedburner but since Google bought Feedburner,
they have become very unreliable publishing our feed. The link above
is linked to an RSS formatted XML file. This should work. We
apologize for any inconvenience.
01/02/09
- Name Change
In November, the town voted on a new name for our town. It was West
Paterson, but has now been changed to Woodland Park. While we are
not happy with the name change, we will change our site to
reflect the new name as time goes by.
10/27/08
- Road Resurfacing
Not quite weather related, but the weather caused most of the
initial problem among other things like traffic. The street we are
on hasn't been paved in over 30 years. Today it's finally being
prepared. Massive cracks, crowning and potholes have afflicted our
road over the years. Along with heavy traffic, freezing weather and
more. The road heaves and get's really bad in the winter. Especially
once the ground freezes.
Pictures are posted
here.
April 19, 2007
Day 4 Floods -
See Updated Photos by clicking
link below.
April 18, 2007
Day 3 Floods -
See Updated Photos by clicking
link below.
April 17, 2007
Day 2 Floods -
See Updated Photos by clicking
link below.
April 16, 2007
Nor'Easter 2007 - Day 1 Floods
Guess Mother Nature wanted to
surprise us this year. Winter is fighting to stay and Spring is
teasing us with 70 degree temps one minute and then 40's the next.
But after yesterday, I think Mother Nature is really trying to warn
us. Mess with her any more and we'll pay! In less than 24 hours
commencing on the 15th, we received 5.62" of rain. By this morning, we
had a total of 6.26" of rain. NOAA is reporting we may even get a
few more showers before weeks end. Rivers are not suppose to
crest till Wednesday at approx. 8AM.
Click for
more pix.
So far the rain has calmed down. With
any luck, we'll avoid any more. Stay tuned.July 15, 2006
Wind Equipment Back...
We are finally back to normal with a
new transmitter. Wind readings are back to full capacity.
July 05, 2006
Wind Equipment Failure Update
We have wind data back!
Turns out that the actual
transmitter has died and the Anemometer equipment is fine. We have
temporarily hard-wired the Wind equipment directly to the main unit
while we await a new transmitter. The data will be only slightly
affected for accuracy but within the guidelines none the less. The
unit that burned out allows us to transmit wirelessly and enables us
to locate the unit further away from the main transmitter. New unit
will be in about 8 business days or so. More to follow..
June 26, 2006
Wind Equipment Failure
Seems we may have taking a
hit from a recent storm while we were out of state. Never fails
something goes wrong while the doctor is out.
In any event, until we are able to repair or replace our Anemometer
Transmitter, we cannot monitor any wind speed or direction. Check
back for details and sorry for any inconvenience.
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April 29, 2006
Nice weather on the horizon?
Spring has finally sprung. The flowers are starting to bloom and
the air smells crisp and clean full of all kinds of wonderful spring
scents. Will it continue? Or will summer sneak in under the wire and
smother us with 95° F temps and muggy summer humidity early. We can
only hope to have a nice and balanced season. We are well over due.
Just the right amounts of rain to keep our supplies normal, our
flowers blooming and our grass green. Let's keep our fingers
crossed.
We wish everyone a great season!
February 19,
2006
From 60-13 Flat!
Sounds like a backwards speed trial doesn't it? What happened to
our spring type weather? Was just a tease I guess. Low today was
13.5 °F at 04:15AM... Pretty drastic! Seems the Northeast got
clobbered big time with temps that dropped so fast, you'd think
someone was holding a gun to the thermometer threatening it's
existence. Thought this was interesting... Our lighthouse didn't get
that bad... But we did peak at 42 mph winds after the storms here in
West Paterson! Some areas of NY State and other Northeast areas are
suffering serious power outages!
Click To Enlarge!
Photo & Caption:
Courtesy the AP and CNN...
Ice sculptured by
winds adorns a decorative lighthouse on Lake Erie in Hamburg, New
York, on Friday.
February 12, 2006
Nor'easter hits NJ and Surrounding Regions!...
Just when we thought Spring was banging on our door, some sneak
slapped us with a snow storm no one expected. While the original
forecast was for 6"-12", we are still getting snow as of 1230ET and
we are at approx. 17" and climbing slowly. All due to this storm,
which stalled over the Atlantic instead of buzzing out. The ocean
temp is 40°F and should be colder, so it took a break for the nice
mild water. We've been lucky so far this season. The last snow storm
that snuck in on us around this time of the year was in
Feb., 2003...
Past snowfalls since, have not been much of a surprise. In any
event, later this week it's supposed to get milder and a touch of
spring may return. Stay tuned for final totals. You can always check
our All Data
pages for current readings and
snowfalls. Now go make some snow
angels before it's too late! Cheers!
December 15,
2005
New Updated Data...
New season's winter snow data now online along with a new
Lightning/NEXRAD radar data map. For current snow measurements,
click here
or from menu, click Wx Bank> All Data...
For the new NEXRAD Radar map, click
here or go to
the menus and select Lightning> Coordinated
Data. This map is no longer just for lightning.
October 15,
2005
Rain, Rain Go Away...
...at least for the time being. While today ends Mother Nature's
9 day wrath on us, we still have to deal with more flooding. Flood
levels have peaked and have caused the usual grief. Grounds are
highly saturated and unable to absorb fast enough. Prior to this
months rain, which happened all in these past consecutive days, we
only had 24.71 inches of rain since January! This past rainfall has
left us with 10.42 inches of rain. That's nearly half of what we got
all year! Total for the year is now at 35.13 inches. Well hopefully,
Mother Nature will take a much needed break and give us a chance to
recover. We needed the rain, but not all at once.... Whew!
Does anyone remember what the sun looked like?
August 22, 2005
Weather Calculator Converters tools! Listed under the "Other
Info" Menu... Great for educational purposes.
August 03, 2005
Which Way Do We Look?
Added a Ninja Pan and Tilt unit to our weather cam. Now we can
redirect the camera up and down and approx. 180 degrees side to side
manually by remote control. Or have it scan 4 preset positions that
we programmed. Pan range starts from West to North North East. Most
of the time, it will be pointing North which is our finest view.
Best way to view if panning is start the camera streaming by
clicking in the sky or selecting it from the menu. Now we can also
move it for beautiful Western Sunsets when they occur.
August 01, 2005 
Thanks All!
August 01, 2005
RSS Feed Link added.
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June 20, 2005
Update on our Soldier Clouds!
We made the Davis Newsletter again with our cloud article below!
Check out the
Davis Jun/2005 Newsletter
by clicking
here!
May 30, 2005
WHOA & HORAAH!
After I just posted the new album data below, I caught this off
my web cam. I'm truly freaked and this picture will go into a
special place in my collection. I assure you, these are untouched or
altered!
Look at the clouds and the conditions forecasted. Tell me what you
see on this Memorial Day 2005!
As fast as I saved the snap shot, the Few Clouds
were gone!
Click to expand.
I simply named this photo:
Three Soldiers!
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