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Another Season of Weather Spotting
Posted in: Weather by Steve on March 24, 2006
I get to do more spotting for Kane County and the surrounding areas again. I attended a spotter training course for Aurora a couple of nights ago that was very well done. I can’t wait to get out an do some spotting. We had a storm at the beginning of March that I was watching from my house. These were from the same system that caused all the damage in Missouri and Springfield, IL. I found myself very excited for the upcoming season.
A few things about this area is that there are not very “organized” HAM or spotter networks in this area. Either you have to be certified OEM or join in on the nets that are too crowded on Will County or the Lake County net (which is one that I really like to join). I was thinking of getting a network of spotters together on a website/blog/whatever 2.0 so that we can have the most information at our disposal in order to plan for spotting. There are a few skywarn groups on Yahoo! that I read, but they do not have information easily at your disposal such as Weather Products, forecasts, etc…
We’ll have to see what kind of interest there is in that. I may post something on the IL_Spotters site.