Re: Cable TV

"Gary Heston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Which other radar sites have you been looking at? The NEXRADs are
> usually up-to-date and have various options to select. I have lots
> better luck with them that with local TV station radars; they are
> on limited bandwidth links and bog down badly when anything of
> interest is happening.

NEXRAD Jacksonville's picture is rarely more than ten minutes old,
likewise Orlando's.  I get them via wunderground.com; there may be
a better way, but I've found that more than adequate.  When my car's
in the shop on a day with scattered showers and I have to use my bike,
I plan trips by looking at where the rainfall was only a few minutes ago
and making a guess based on experience.

I've told on-line friends that they could go bike-riding for an evening
without worrying about rain, just by looking at NEXRAD views for
the other side of the country, and their local conditions, and seeing
that given current winds near them, the showers were a couple hours
away.  (Yeah, yeah, showers sometimes develop from what to radar
is a clear sky, but more often they just move.)

Mark., wouldn't mind more BANDWIDTH here in the boonies
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