[Az-Geocaching] Skywarn ~ and GPS use :-)

[Trisha Brasher]

It's a great service. Are you a Ham, Brian? In the Kingman area back then (1990's) , all the Skywarn volunteers were Hams. So we could communicate.
I once was returning to Kingman from Dolan Springs with a big T-storm cell coming in from the NW (a common thing, and the radar out of Las Vegas had bad coverage due to terrain in that area....one reason why Skywarn was so important) I radioed in the info (location, direction, size of hail, lightning danger, etc) and by the time I got home about 25 minutes later just ahead of the storm, the weather alert was scrolling on the TV and they were using my exact words!! It was pretty cool.
Oh, um, by the way, back then we didn't use a GPS to give the location....

Trisha ~ "Lightning"
Can anyone now guess where the name came from?
Prescott Vly


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Casteel" <bcasteel at uccinc.net>
To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Heat Stroke vs. Heat Hoax
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 01:37:58 -0600

> 
> Heh.  Funny you should mention Skywarn.  I learned about it 
> recently, and will be attending the next training session to become 
> one myself.  :)
> 
> Brian
> Team A.I.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trisha Brasher" <trisha at brasher.com>
> To: <listserv at azgeocaching.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 11:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Heat Stroke vs. Heat Hoax
> 
> 
> > I was IN Bullhead City on that day in June of '90 and we 
> > personally measured 128 F in the parking lot of WalMart. (MY ex 
> > was a helo pilot and I was a Skywarn weather volunteer, so we had 
> > a small portable weather (temp/baro pressure/humidity) unit with 
> > us. Which is why I know that they under-report the actual temp by 
> > a few degrees, as well as differences in where the reading is 
> > taken.
> > SO, I am relating personal "official" experience.
> > In other words, I WAS THERE, WITH A THERMOMETER!
> > Your experience may vary.
> >
> > Trisha ~ Lightning
> > Prescott Vly...
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roping The Wind" <arizcowboy at hotmail.com>
> > To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
> > Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Heat Stroke vs. Heat Hoax
> > Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 05:07:54 -0700
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> > From: Guy Aldrich <graldrich at gmail.com>
> >> > Reply-To: listserv at azgeocaching.com,Guy Aldrich <graldrich at gmail.com>
> >> > To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
> >> > Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Heat Stroke vs. Heat Hoax
> >> > Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 00:09:09 -0700
> >> >
> >> > It was actually 128º in BHC!
> >>
> >> I am looking at National Weather Service climatic data. Anything
> >> else is not 'official'.
> >>
> >> If Laughlin's tourism site says it was 126 degrees for their record
> >> high... well then, they sure arent trying to downplay the
> >> temperatures for tourism!!! (I found the website that says this...
> >> it is A2Zlasvegas.com or something like that). I also found this:
> >>
> >> >> Hottest day in the United States recorded August 11, 1983 at
> >> >> 2:21 p.m. was 132 F. - recorded in the shade at the Bullhead
> >> >> City Fire Department.<<
> >>
> >> http://www.bullheadcity.com/facts.asp
> >>
> >> Neither is Bullhead City, AZ!!! I think Death Valley holds the
> >> hottest temperature ever recorded in the USA. But I didnt look into
> >> that. So dont know. But that 132 degrees posted above is definetly
> >> not official.
> >>
> >> Scott
> >> Team RTW
> >>
> >>
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