National Weather Service – Albany New York
https://www.weather.gov/media/aly/AutoBriefing/ALYBriefing.pdf
A Winter Weather Advisory has been expanded to all of eastern New York and western New England except for the southern Adirondacks, Glens Falls/Lake George area, and southern VT as of 3:55 pm this afternoon.
Many Hudson Valley 80 Meter Net participants are located in this region and we will be conducting our first HV 80 ‘pop-up’ Weather Net of the winter season tomorrow afternoon, Sunday December 11, 2022 beginning at 2:00 PM EST on 3.835MHz (+/- 5-10 kHz).
All are welcome to participate.
Even if your station is outside the advisory area, you are very welcome to check in, let us know you are listening and report your local weather conditions. Amateur radio allows us to share and compare information in ‘real time’ and often the ‘actual’ conditions differ from those that are predicted.
The report you provide from your station is simple and straight forward:
1) Current Conditions (snow: light, moderate, heavy; road conditions if known)
2) Temperature
3) Wind direction and velocity (if known)
4) Snow depth (a ruler measurement is fine)
Stations experiencing no severe weather are encouraged to report as it can inform our knowledge of the extent of any storm or significant weather event.
Our Net Control for tomorrow will be Kenny K2KRP.
Kenny spent many years as Vice President and News Director, WABC-TV and then at NBC-TV 10 in Boston.
As a public service Kenny will be collating and summarizing the information received and report reporting it to contacts he has at all three New York TV broadcast stations as well as the National Weather Service in Albany, New York.
If you have a weather station that is linked to the internet please send that info to Kenny K2KRP at kenny.plotnik@gmail.comso he can incorporate that more precise data into his summary reports which will also be posted on the Hudson Valley 80 Meter Net Forum pages at https://www.hudsonvalley80meter.net.
While this is unlikely to be a ‘major’ snow event and hopefully not a dangerous one, it provides an opportunity for our HV 80 amateur radio community to continue to hone our HF communication skills, test our gear, provide some modest public service and have fun while learning and helping one another.
We hope you will participate!
The more we use the 3.835MHz frequency for regular Nets, ‘Pop-up’ Weather Nets and more informal QSOs the more it will contribute to our preparedness for future ‘grid down’ and other emergency situations should they arise.
Your thoughts and suggestions about the HV 80 Net are always welcome…just send an email to: Paul AC2UQ at pbrown4082@gmail.com.
Keep safe, keep warm, all the best,
Paul AC2UQ