Changes to Our Website

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Time to add extra pages, These pages will organize forecasts for the Minneapolis area and help you find soil parameters more easily. For the Minneapolis page, click WRF EMS Minneapolis Forecasts OR, if your interest is Sargent County, ND, click WRF EMS Sargent County, ND Forecasts. Either of these will take you to a new page.

On that new page you can choose either Atmospheric Forecasts (e.g., temperature, dew point, wind direction and speed plus precipitation amount) or Soil Forecasts (soil temperature or soil moisture).

You'll find those manifold images here: for the first one, here: for the second one, here: for the third and here: for the last image.

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Now we offer even more information and analysis. Although it's too complicated to provide all the details here, we expanded our forecasts to include soil temperature at various depths, air moisture indices (or "indexes" if you're younger!), enviro- or evapotranspiration forecasts, and specific forecasts focused on soil type and chemistry.

Those are real mouthfuls, and so you might ask, "How is that useful?" Keep in mind we have never said Industrial Weather was a place to check on picnic weather. We offer specific forecasts for limited geographic locations defined by 2 kilometer-by-2 kilometer squares. We can offer that information from eastern Montana through western Wisconsin and south to the middle of Illinois. We offer our information for those interested in engineering projects or very specific weather information.

That's why we forecast winter wind temperatures for school districts and road weather conditions for municipalities. These new forecasts can be used for many engineering, construction, and maintenance needs. Forecast information can be used by an engineering staff evaluating road construction conditions and types of materials. The information can also reduce threats from severe weather such as warnings of lightning strikes, hail damage, high wind dangers. In our menu (above) you will see examples of those forecasts appearing this afternoon, July 1, 2011. Call us if you have needs for this type of information.

Examples are in the menu as, "NEW: First, Second, Third Detailed Information File," above

Here are descriptions of menu items:

"Current Conditions" is self-descriptive. It is a map of the region with many different reporting stations that record weather data. Although those stations include National Weather Service locations, the map also features MADIS reporting stations. MADIS, or "Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System," is a network of citizens furnishing information to a central server where the data are cleaned and stored. By using these data meteorologists benefit from additional data otherwise unavailable. The map can be zoomed in and the central point can be changed. Data are updated as information changes.

"Current Forecast" is the most recent forecast available from Industrial Weather in brief format with added icons. The forecast is dated and generally extends four days.

"NOAA Forecast" is the local NWS forecast and is updated automatically as the Chanhassen, Minnesota office changes the forecast.

"Forecast Details" is the in-depth forecast furnished by Industrial Weather. It includes summaries, a static graph of conditions, a four-day text forecast for Plymouth, Minnesota, and text forecast. In additiion, we also include a half-hour by half-hour forecast in great detail. These data also offer measures of sky cloud cover, solar irradiance, solar energy, and additive precipitation. We can furnish lots more data, but you probably don't want to see more detail!

"Current Radar" is also self-descriptive. However, many of you wanted more than the television or other radar displays and you wanted both local and national radar in animation. This menu item offers all of that in easily-understood format. It may take a moment to fully load, since its source is the NWS, but it is also very informative.

"NOAA Advisory" is the place to look for watches, warnings and similar information. Its source is the local Chanhassen, Minnesota NWS office, so when conditions change, this menu item reflects the latest information.

"WRF EMS Numerical Forecasts" is the item offering the results of the large-scale numerical models we run here at Industrial Weather. Twice each day these models run here on our cluster computer network, providing us with detailed numerical forecasts. The WRF ("Weather Research and Forecasting") EMS ("Environment Modeling System") model is a comprehensive model with many different optional parameters and we choose those parameters as necessary. We offer a graphical, animated display of the common data output as a service to the community. The possible output includes hundreds of technical descriptions of the atmosphere, however, so if you need information in that detail, please contact us.

"Meteorological Wonder Dog Weather" is our blog. A friend, Bob Murphey, suggested the name based on our first Shelty, "Chance." Chance was always excited to go our in ANY weather, even when his master was less enthusiastic. The original Chance died of age-related causes in January 2010 right outside my office door, so two weeks later we found another Shelty. His name? You would not believe it but he was already named "Chance." He is also a Shelty and loves weather so much he even sleeps through loud thunder, on his back, with his legs in the air. The blog is a light treatment of current weather conditions and includes a copy of the "Forecast in Detail." You'll find the attached "Forecast in Detail" as an underlined link as the first word in the blog. Simply click the link. This saves us from needing to send out so many e-mails. Anyone can subscribe to it. Simply press the logo to the right and when the blog changes a copy appears in your browser. Or you can simply scroll to the bottom of the blog page and click "Entries RSS." When you want to unsubscribe, remove the logo from your browser.

As always, if you need specific information or you need to have a meteorological question answered, please contact us. mallen@induswx.com Otherwise, please call or contact us for more information. We would be happy to sit with you and describe our services in detail.