mhartman-wx.com - recent web-site updates

Date	Update Summary
24 June 2008	With the recent addition of a GPS receiver and the GRLevel3 capabilities I've added to my laptop, I've taken a short period here this afternoon to update my chase equipment lists.
06 June 2008	Work was done today to add a new feature to the site. I recently added GRLevel3 to my local arsenal of Meteorological applications. As such, I am now publishing radar images to the web-site. Although, this won't be something that will continuously by updated, it will show areas of the country I am watching for severe weather or simply areas I have active on my workstation. The images will include base reflectivity and storm-relative velocity at a half-degree, as well as VIL (vertically integrated liquid) data. VIL data is often used to find storms that are conducive for hail production (the higher the VIL's, the higher likelihood for large hail). The images will often include overlays, indicating watches and warnings, as well as spotter/chaser locations, and surface observations. If an overlay is present and you have questions regarding it, feel free to shoot me an E-mail and I can explain what you're looking at. Enjoy the new feature!
23 March 2008	Many updates were conducted this evening... Most importantly, I added an archive for Feb. 2nd, 2008 from the tornado outbreak across the Mid-South I had a friend of mine request some radar data, especially, so it pretty much is radar exclusive. I also made some minor changes to the overall site. I changed the "Recent Event" news-links provided on the left side-bar to feature a new title. In the near future, I think I'm going to remove this and add some sort of widget and/or new feature, so that I don't have as much material to continually update. Or not! It depends how motivated I want to remain on maintaining the site. I also updated the "Latest Events" on the Archives page to indicate the most current archives I've added. In addition, I updated the "Update Log," itself. I moved all updates from 2006 to the archived update log and made some changes to the navigation menu above. I had noticed that I hadn't updated the link to my new WeatherBlog. The Projects page was updated some to reflect the on-going work on the Weather-Cam Network. And finally, made some updates to my resume I've been aiming to do for quite some time. Phew... ready now for a shower and dinner. Hey, I'm working the midnight shift - I have an excuse!
11 March 2008	It has been a long while since I've made any updates to the site, but today, I replaced the long aged "Radio.Blog" button on all pages to my new Media player. The player, an application powered through Flash and Project Playlist, is now featured throughout the web-site. It isn't set up beautifully in the pop-up window it opens in, but it is pretty much the only way I can link to it using a direct URL. So, if you're visiting the site and would like to hear some of my latest, favorite tunes, feel free to click on the "My Playlist" button in the bottom left-hand corner of the site to open the media player.
27 February 2007	Have spent this afternoon writing up my log from yesterday's chase across eastern portions of the state, so have uploaded it, as well as a few data files to the archive. Updated respective pages to include links to those, as well as the archives from the May 18th event across the Northern Plains. Updated the "most recent events" portion on the Event Listings on the Archive page and updated the "Recent Events / Chases" portion to each page on the site. A little cumbersome, but it's all completed! Work also continues on the National Weather-Cam Network. I've been approved to work on the network on my office shifts at work this week, so stay tuned. Additional states will be started and completed, I hope!
27 February 2007	Not much really to cover tonight, but did make a minor change on the Extensions page early this morning. I have decided to rid of my WeatherBlog, so I removed the link to the blog and replaced it with a link to my MySpace profile. In other news, however, a new template (created entirely by me!) has been implemented over on the PhotoBlog. I made a change to the blog's title and with the new template, it is now matched up quite well with the layout of the Mhartman-wx.com website. Any updates on the WCN? Nothing of recent, however, I have completed (mostly) plotting cams for Nebraska. I still need to go through a few cams there, to locate and plot, in addition to editting and plotting a few here in North Dakota. I'll have some time off work here soon, so I'm planning on completing another state or two soon! Keep checking it out - more and more cams will be appearing in the future! My "dinner" is getting cold, so more later!
29 January 2007	Just to mention a few things I've updated early this morning... I updated the chase equipment list to include the Minnesota Delorme I received as a Christmas gift this year - I hadn't done so yet! I made a very minor ordering issue with the Forecast Tools, by moving the "Weather Conversion Tools" down the list so that it agreed with the alphabetic order I had initially listed there. And also, uploaded an updated list of complete songs to the Miscellaneous section to the site. Otherwise, no other major changes to the site itself early this morning. I have, however, taken the last 2-3 hours and re-designed the layout of the National Weather-Cam Network. Hopefully, the new layout will go over much better and that it will make it much easier to manuever around the network. I've also added an splash/intro page and I'm not sure if I'll keep this active or not. If you visit the WCN and find that it's a nuisance, certainly let me know and I can very easily rid of it. Check it out, if/when you have some extra time folks! It's still a major work in progress, but it will come together slowly, but surely. I now have someone who is helping with locating cams and acquiring lat/lon coordinates, so maybe things will come together a little quicker! Enjoy! webcams.mhartman-wx.com

Last Updated: 06.24.2008 at 3:31 PM