The link above takes you to the Weather Underground's Radford University page that shows our weather data, updated every 5 minutes. There, you can also find the data archived in text format. 
 


Our station's data is available for download to your computer!
To monitor our station's real-time data, download and install the
Active Weather Viewer from WeatherView32.com.
Once installed launch the program, click 'edit' then 'enter/edit http server paths' and set your 'WV32 Active Viewer site' to 'http://www.radford.edu/~rusmart/wxview'. This will allow you to receive realtime weather updates from our weather station.

The image below is a live weather readout from the Texas Weather Instruments WRL-32S weather station located on the top of Curie Hall.
This image refreshes automatically every 5 minutes.
Click the image to see the dials and information at full size.


Lightning Detector legend:
"Now"=# of lightning counts in current one minute
"Last"=# of lightning counts in previous one minute
"Avg"=# of lightning counts in previous 6 minutes
Vertical lines mark each hour

Satellite Image of the Day: September 12, 2005
 (click here for previous images of the day from RUSMART)

NOAA's Hydrometeorologial Prediction Center (HPC) "Daily National Forecast" image shows a daily national weather prediction

Satellites: NOAA-15 and NOAA-17, part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites

 The Strange Evolution of Ophelia
 Ophelia started out as a tropical storm that seemed like it would fizzle out.
However, by late Thursday, Ophelia had gathered her strength and consolidated her clouds, becoming a full-blown hurricane.
Ophelia also took a very unusual track, first flirting with turning northeast (out to sea) but then turning back towards land by Monday afternoon.

All of the images below are "rgb" images.
This means that the various wavelengths of the satellite images are combined to bring out features such as the two-layer structure of Ophelia's clouds:
High/cold clouds are white while lower/warmer clouds are more yellow.

Click on the image(s) below for a higher-resolution (~100k) picture.
 

Thursday, Sept. 8
Tropical Storm Ophelia early in the day, Hurricane Ophelia late in the day		 Friday, Sept. 9
Hurricane Ophelia stalls off of the coast of Florida		 Saturday, Sept. 10
Hurricane Ophelia slowly heads north, teasing the southeastern coast		 Sunday, Sept. 11
Early morning shadows reveal Hurricane Ophelia still moving northeastward		 Monday, Sept. 12
Hurricane Ophelia turns w4estward towards the Carolinas' coasts