We'd like to know how you viewed this summer, and as a simple and measureable way of summing it up, we thought we'd make a quick poll! Please place your vote!
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Lots of work going on behind the scenes here at Netweather HQ at the moment to prepare for the Winter season.
Obviously with Winter comes additional traffic to the site, so we're adding another server to the cluster currently (taking us up to 6 servers now), and because of the changes we made to our setup earlier in the Summer we'll be able to add further servers to cope with demand at relatively short notice throughout.
We've also got a packed out development schedule with new additions a
It's been a while since we had any major news about the radar, so I thought today would be a good time to share some with you..
In short, although the V5 version of the radar is still fairly new and in it's final beta phase, we've decided to jump straight on to V6 and are currently working hard to put that in place. The new system will use the same mapping and zooms as V5 but will use newer technology to allow us to bring a number of new features - including many of the most requested ones f
[color=#1C2837][size=4]It's been a little while since the last update on our blog (must do better!), so I thought now would be a good time to give an update on what we've been up to behind the scenes, and some info on what we've got planned as we close out the summer and move toward autumn and winter.
The main thing we've been working on is a move to new servers, which barring a few bits and pieces is now complete. You may remember we also moved to new servers last year but unfortunately it
Next Tuesday, in a top secret location (kind of!), four top long range forecasting experts will be meeting to discuss the prospects for the upcoming winter. The four are John Holmes, Brickfielder, Glacier Point and Steve Murr, and they will be trying to thrash out how they feel the winter will pan out and going over many of the key drivers they believe will play a part.
With four such respected and knowledgeable people in the same room, the discussion is sure to be informative, educational a
As some of you may know, we've been planning and developing mobile apps and more mobile friendly pages on the Netweather site for some time now, and are getting toward a point where we'd like to finalise an initial feature list.
Our initial apps (Iphone & Android) are planned to contain a number of features which include:
Local Weather Forecasts
Latest Local Weather Conditions
Radar (with free and Extra radar's available)
Lightning Detection (again with free and Extra available)
La
After several years with our current server hosts (Rackspace), we're on the move to a new company and brand new server setup which will suit us much better and give allow us a lot more flexibility as we continue to grow (at an increasingly rapid rate of knots!).
Our new servers at Peer 1 have gone live today and we have already begun the process of migrating everything over to them with the aim to complete the move sometime in May.
The main part of this process will be totally behind the
[b]Background and Current Position[/b]
This is the first Alps blog for the winter season 2014-15, so far this autumn/winter period it has been mixed for snow conditions. There has been some snow at times even down to some lower levels, however due to the milder weather recently much of this has thawed, although parts of Austria did see some fresh snow last week.
[b]Synoptic Pattern[/b]
Currently the main driver for the Alps is low pressure to the South West of Italy, with East to North
The build up to winter continues here at Netweather with a number of new items on the way over the next couple of weeks.
Firstly this week the winter area goes fully live, including the Christmas forecast and the return of (a revamped) Santa Shaker! We also have massive upgrade to our SkiCentre on the way with weather, resort info, webcams, snow reports and a fair bit more for virtually every mountain across the world.
The full, technical version of the Winter forecast will also be online
With the first signs of a cold snap on the forecasting models today, and the first sign of a frenzy building in the model discussion thread, it's clear to see that Winter is most definitely not far off!!
To mark this fact, a number of new features will be going live on Netweather over the next couple of weeks. Firstly the Christmas forecast will be making it's comeback for 2010 this week, and that in turn will bring the full return of the Winter area for another year. At the same time Netweat
Thought I'd post a quick update to let everyone know what's happening with the server move...
Currently we're still in the process of migrating everything over to our new servers, but we're into the final stages of that with just one or two items remaining, from there it's a matter of testing everything thoroughly before making the switch.
The current (unofficial!) date for the move to be completed is a week today - Wednesday 12th May, but stay tuned for any changes to this.
On the da
It's been a busy period here at Netweather, so I thought I'd run through some of what is happening.
Firstly, it's a pleasure to let you know that 2 very talented new forecasters have recently joined our forecast team, Mark Watson has joined our operational team and Chris Gibbs has joined our content team. Both are bedding into the team at the moment, but very soon you'll be seeing their name on forecasts, alerts, articles and videos on the site.
More good news is that Netweather TV is ver
After weeks of work and a disastrous failed attempt earlier this week, this morning we finally moved Netweather onto it's new servers. We have a few more bits and pieces to move over tomorrow, but the bulk of the work is done and so far (touch wood) there have been no major issues.
Once we have finished up we'll be on a solid, future proofed setup and that means we can finally concentrate on the good stuff - ie bringing new features and improvements to the site..
Paul
It's been planned for a little while and today at last I started putting together the new look homepage for Netweather. We have a number of new and revamped items planned for the homepage, including a new alerts system, and a number of other things we'll talk more about in due course.
Question is though, what would you like to see on there and what items do you like and dislike about the current homepage? Please let me know - your ideas will certainly be taken on board.
Look forward to h
So this is the final full blog for Glastonbury 2015, ahead of the gates opening tomorrow.
[b]Daily forecasts [/b]
[size=3][b]Wednesday 24th June[/b][/size]
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Mostly Fine and Dry with a small ridge of High Pressure over Southern parts of the UK. Sunny to start, a bit more cloudy in the afternoon. Temps low 20s,
[b][size=3]Thursday 25 June[/size][/b]
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Very similar conditions to those of Wednes
I've got a date for you to add to your diaries this morning - Wednesday 29th October...
Next Wednesday will see the first full Netweather winter forecast of the year online, the winter area will be back on the site, the skiing/boarding forecasts will be back on the site and the first update of the Christmas 08 forecast will be online. It's going to be a busy day!
As you may know, we've been planning and working on a move to new servers for a little while now, and whilst the forum is already on our new setup the rest of the site is still on the old one.
Next week will see the big change occur though with all parts of Netweather moved to the new servers, they're already running and live in the background so the changeover should be a seamless one if all goes to plan. The changeover should take place on Tuesday or Wednesday, so keep an eye out to see if
[b]Introduction [/b]
It remains a very disappointing start to Winter for the Alps, with very little snow for the lower slopes, However the cold overnight temperatures have meant that snow cannons have been in operation, and a large number of resorts have been able to open. However the lack of snow has meant that the opening Ski races schedule for Val D'Isere have had to be moved to Beaver Creek in North America.
More details on snow amounts and general conditions available on at the Ski Cl
[b]Summary[/b]
After some remarkable snowfalls over the Alps over the past month, it should be a quieter week weather wise, it should be mostly dry with plenty of sunshine. There will always be a NE/SW split, always colder in Austria ,and very cold to start, and always less cold the further SW you go, but bitterly cold overnight throughout. However with all sunshine it should be a great skiing week, however there may be an avalanche risk in some areas, so beware this.
More Details as ever
[b]Summary[/b]
The Alps has joined the UK in enjoying warm sunshine this week, with suntan lotion a must however this has meant that snow levels have dropped this week, by around 30cm, however at least temps have been cold overnight to refreeze the lying snow.
Best conditions can be seen on north facing slopes and the higher up you go the better the conditions. Elsewhere conditions are turning progressively slushy into the afternoon as the powerful sun melts the snow.
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As you may have seen, we've been working hard in recent weeks (and months) to start bringing video items to Netweather. We've now started to push more content through, and have setup several channels (and with more to come), all accessible from the [url="http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=video;sess="]video player homepage[/url].
Amongst the channels currently you can catch up on the latest forecasts from Michael Fish, as well as the netweather forecast team, along with weather from a
Apologies to everyone who was affected by our downtime this morning, you may have guessed the reason - we attempted what was going to be our 'seamless' transition to our new servers and just like so many well laid plans; it failed miserably..
For the time being we've rolled back to our old servers with another move to the new setup planned for later this week (hopefully) once we've nailed down what we think was the problem. With a bit of luck the next attempt will be more permanent and not qu
We've had some many people enquiring this week about the upcoming Winter and wondering when the Winter forecast is going to be released, it's clear that after last year there is an incredible amount of interest in whether this Winter will be cold again...
The full Winter forecast will be made online very shortly now, and as last year it's been written by Stewart Rampling and the full, detailed version of it will be freely available for everyone to read. (These seasonal forecasts are generall
As has been forecast for the last few days, we're seeing some really heavy rain moving up through Northern England and into Scotland today, already there are reports of flooding according to the BBC:
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And you can see why - this is the 12 hour accumulated rainfall taken from the radar:
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And this is the position of the rainfall as I type this update:
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The
Tonight see's the launch of a new competition on netweather, with the winner having the opportunity to have their winter outlook published onto Netweather as the 'official' alternative winter forecast. (the winner will also receive a 1 year subscription to Netweather Extra).
To enter you don't have to be a forecasting expert or have loads of technical knowledge, you just need to have an idea as to how you will create your forecast and the methodology behind it. Put simply, your forecast coul
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