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: November 7
(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

High Pressure System

The picture below shows the high pressure system right above us. This high pressure system is what is keeping us warm.

The clear skies directly above us proves this high pressure system.

Also above the great lakes is a clear picture of one jet stream moving down into the states. Not real far because of the high pressure system above us is keeping it out.

Click on the image below for a higher-resolution version.