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: October 22, 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

Wilma makes first landfall

Wilma makes her first landfall on the "Mexican Riviera."
As she churns her way slowly into the Gulf of Mexico, scraping across this land, however briefly, may weaken her just a bit.
However, once she encounters the warm waters of the Gulf, she will again draw power from that warmth and spin up to a Category 5.
Forecasters are still unsure about where she will make landfall on the US--too many factors are in play here, including the jet stream, seen dipping down into the US from Canada.
Note how the cold front ahead of the jet stream is causing the moisture Wilma is pumping into the US southeast to come out of the air and bring rain.

Click on the image below for a larger (>100k) image (a closer image of Wilma).

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