WeatherFlow Plays Lead Role in National Mesonet Project
November 21, 2011. Silver Spring, Maryland.
NOAA's National Mesonet Expansion Program (NMPX) hit the six month mark with a full head of steam, having met all of its project milestones on schedule and on budget. The project is being carried out by MesoUS, a consortium of mesonet operators and technology companies in partnership with GST Inc.,...
WeatherFlow Network Captures Hurricane Irene Footprint
September 28, 2011. New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Hurricane Irene registered tropical storm force winds over a greater geographic area than any storm in the last 20 years according to WeatherFlow Inc., a leading provider of weather observation data and forecasting models. Over 150 WeatherFlow monitoring stations from Florida to Maine recorded winds greater than 39 mph...
America’s Cup World Series San Diego
November 20, 2011. San Diego, California.
As part of its ongoing project to provide meteorological support to the 2013 America's Cup program, a team of WeatherFlow meteorologists were staged in San Diego to support the latest event in the America's Cup World Series. This series is a set of preparatory races, staged by the America's...
Progress on Wind Energy Mesonet
November 14, 2011. Buxton, North Carolina.
WeatherFlow's Wind Energy Mesonet (WEM) continues to expand in a steady manner, even as market conditions in the wind energy sector remain unsettled due to uncertainty about federal policy towards wind and other renewable energy sources. Even though the rate of new wind installations has slowed for now, the benefits...
New Features for WindAlert
October 24, 2011. New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
This summer and fall continued a strong performance for WindAlert, WeatherFlow's latest observation and forecast display application. Initially released in 2009, the web- and mobile-device application has gone through a number of upgrades, adding the capabilities most requested by the product's users.
One of the most important set of improvements...
Caribbean Mesonet Continues Expansion
October 11, 2011. Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
WeatherFlow continued to strengthen its presence in the Caribbean region, signing a contract extension with the Caribbean Coastal Oceanographic Observing System (CARICOOS), the regional component of NOAA's Integrated Ocean Observing System. The contract provides for the continued operation of a 12 station mesonet that was installed by WeatherFlow in...
Middle Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Studies
August 30, 2011. Poquoson, Virginia.
Meteorologists from WeatherFlow's Virginia office recently began a pair of intensive studies of the wind conditions found along the North Carolina and Virginia coastlines. Although funded by different sources and sponsors, the projects are employing similar methodologies and are building on the lessons learned provided by each.
For the studies, WeatherFlow meteorologists...
Tall Tower Wind Monitoring Technology Developed
January 11, 2011. Bolton, Massachusetts.
More than twenty years of real world lessons learned are being brought to bear in WeatherFlow's Bolton office, as company engineers apply the final touches to WeatherFlow's newly launched SCYLLA system. The system incorporates dozens of specific design characteristics that have been driven by WeatherFlow's experience in maintaining and operating a proprietary weather observing network,...
Microburst Research uses WeatherFlow Data
December 21, 2010. Suitland, Maryland.
NOAA/NESDIS researcher Dr. Ken Pryor is using Weatherflow observations to help verify his newly developed microburst forecasting technique, in which he uses GOES Satellite imagery to estimate surface wind speeds emanating from convection. On several recent occasions, WeatherFlow observations have verified the estimates generated by his algorithm. Two such events occurred on 17...
DTRA Contract Renewed
November 15, 2010. Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
With a relationship dating back before the attacks of September 11, 2001, WeatherFlow and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) recently renewed a contract that provides for a real-time feed of WeatherFlow observational data to DTRA. WeatherFlow sites, installed to complement existing National Weather Service observations, are extremely well positioned to help...
First SODAR Fielded
November 10, 2010. Bolton, Massachusetts.
In conjunction with its Wind Energy Mesonet initiative, WeatherFlow recently took delivery of its first operational SODAR unit. Manufactured by industry leader Second Wind, the Triton unit is one of the most frequently used profilers in the wind energy industry and will continuously sample the wind characteristics of the lower atmosphere up to 200m. Designed for...