The Ag. Weather Center at the University of Kentucky has developed several weather resources for Kentucky that are available to everyone across the nation. I have listed several products and resources below: Or click here for the mp3 webcast version.

UKAWC Desktop Severe Weather Information:

When we trained the meteorology students in my weather class to locate and identify severe weather safe places in all builds across the campus for the NWS StormReady project, one of the items that everyone wanted was a comprehensive, but concise desktop severe weather web page for campus, which we developed. After we became certified by the NWS, county agents started requesting a similar desktop severe weather page, specific to their county. After presenting this desktop severe web page at the 2004/05 annual EDEN meeting, other schools ask us to develop similar desktop severe weather web pages for their state. While there have been a couple of improvements, below is the link to this nationwide desktop severe weather service:

http://weather.uky.edu/radar/Severeweather.html

Nationwide rainfall estimate: (Not for legal purposes)

While every weather office provides local weather and climate date, rainfall totals is one of the most frequent items requested. Problem is...there is rarely a weather station where you need it. A solution to this problem is provided by the National Weather Service's new web site, Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS). Among other resources, this site provides the doppler rainfall estimated for various time periods, (ie., yesterday, the last 7 days...) in a color-code map.

http://water.weather.gov/precip/

Digital Rainfall estimate:

This new service was developed by the UK Ag. Weather Center and provides the above daily rainfall totals for a selected site across the nation. Based on the daily information provided to us from the NWS' Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Serice, in conjunction with Google Map, we developed software that will allow the user to zoom into their site for the dopplar rainfall total for the past 60 days. The rainfall estimate is NOT for legal purposes and is available at:

http://weather.uky.edu/gpdata.html

National Weather Map Carousel:

The following (2) weather items are used by county offices when they want to setup a weather display at a field day where internet access is available. This first display targets weather situation across the entire nation and scrolls from left to right and updates every 30 min:

http://weather.uky.edu/nat_wx_carousel.shtml

National Climate Map Carousel:

This product does the same thing as above except it targets the climate and drought situation across the nation with medium and long-range NWS weather outlooks included:

http://weather.uky.edu/nat_climate_carousel.shtml

County-by-county Precision Agricultural, Lawn and Garden Forecasts: Since there is so much weather information available on the internet, we wanted to take everything on a county-by-county level and focus that information on one web page for a given county. The results are below:

http://weather.uky.edu/PrecisionForecast.html

- Here's an example of the link for one state (Alabama): http://weather.ca.uky.edu/alnowwx.2.html

Farm-by-farm PointAgCast:

Weather services specific for our nations food production ceased to exist over a decado ago. But technilogy and internet resources have advance so rapidly, it's difficult to keep up with new developments. For that reason, we wanted to utilize all of these resources to a new level of weather services that could be jused by everyone and benefit our nation's food production. After partnering with both national and regional levels of the National Weather Service, we developed a farm-by-farm agricultural weather service like never before available to our nations farmers. Based on the NWS' National Digital Forecast Database, the PointAgCast provides site-specific (2.5 by 2.5 im) precision forecast information that we run through various algorithms to provide added information for agricultural farm operations, such as spraying conditions, drying conditions, livestock cold stress, livestock heat stress, etc. The user, you, can use your zip code, your county and state, or zoom into the Google maps for locate your site. The PointAgCast is at the link below:

http://weather.uky.edu/ukawc.shtml

UK AG Weather "On The Go:"

Free nationwide weather service on your cell phone. Wonder about those clouds on the horizon? Now the radar and the PointAgCast are available on your web- accessible cell phone. This free service combined the NWS radars and Precision Agriculture, Lawn and garden products on your cell phone and is available at:

http://weather.uky.edu/pda.shtml

All the above information is avaiable from the UK Ag. Weather Center at:

http://weather.uky.edu

You can contact me at 859-257-3000 ext 245

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