Don Murray
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RISE-26, a crowd-funded severe weather research and forecasting mission takes off in a few months. We have a team of 9 field personnel now and are really excited to get this moving. Here’s a few things I keep getting asked: -I’m a college/University/student/other researcher, can I get the data? Yes. It’s live on our website AS IT HAPPENS and is exportable in SHARPpy or JSON. You can also get our full archive including probe data upon request. -How do you afford this? I don’t. We’re draining $6000 a month down our pants to some how pull this off. I nearly gave up diamond member parking! But our audience is helping offset this via GoFundMe on our website. You can help too: WxEye.org -I’m from Big Weather Company ABC I want to ingest your data for our proprietary model. No, you’d have to sponsor the project to do that. We provide data to non-profiting groups as a courtesy and to better science. This includes the NWS who can view our data live and requires no citation to use it. -How big is the balloon? Depends. Some are small, about 6 feet around while others are 12-15. It depends what we’re launching and how high we need to take our payload. -Do you call the FAA? I actually have a file with the FAA because so many folks have called in to report us. Our payload is under 4 pounds. I don’t need a NOTAM, but we do call the nearest air traffic control center and advise them of the launch as a courtesy. This is done by other staff, which is why you rarely see it on stream. We are not breaking any rules. -Did you build all this yourselves? Yes. I have spent the entire winter reinventing the wheel. We have a robust API like no other, an expanding network of ground receivers and the ability to push live data every second to your device. We’re literally connecting the balloon radiosonde to your phone with a virtual pipe. No one else does this on this level. I got paid nothing to do this. I am the one signing the checks and I didn’t pay myself. It just had to be done. -Do you need help? Yes and no. It’s best to email us with that. We do need skilled individuals. It’s very easy, even my 4 year old does it. See picture. -This needs to be a 90 minute documentary. Yep we have that being filmed by an independent too. You can follow all of our project -> @tnstormhunters @AidanO_wx @K707Wx @UpperAirGuy ScientificSales.com @RadarOmega @cyclonePORT
🌧️ FIRST TEST MISSION SUCCESSFUL: The data vs the storm…. ⚡️ SUPERCELL ⚡️ A late season storm formed in far southeast Missouri yesterday afternoon. This thing would have been amazing if there was another hour of daylight! 🎈 I also sent up a sonde to sample the environment. Here’s the storm versus the thermodynamic properties that formed it. Little inversion there probably didn’t help it, but check out how dry it is about 800mb or so. 🚫Scientists: that is -not- our new Skew-t / Log-p viewer. That viewer is -almost- done. This is just a simple html plot from the API data and is very crude. ⬆️ 72,000 feet temperature = -94°F 🌡️ 👀 View the “user friendly” data plots: tinyurl.com/3wj4848n
By now some folks have probably seen early versions of Report Buddy floating around. Holden snagged the first tornado pic with it. Ill be open sourcing the code that started as a personal replacement/enhancment for spotter network and mping. adlyons.github.io/report_buddy.h…
