They went back to humans running the net today, and several people had comments about their experiences with "Rachel" on Monday.
It is an actual net of people, with an alternate net control. Anyone who checks in provides their max/min temps from the day before, rain total, and 7:00 AM temperature with observed sky code. (If you know anything about hams, they spend a lot of time living in the early 20th century and not giving up on the art of radio just in case the Internet, telephone, and cellular grids spontaneously melt down...and takes APRS with it.)
Following the collection phase, a long-time member gives the day's historical averages and records. After that, the net control station reads the forecast synopsis and anticipated Skywarn spotter activation info before wrapping up.
My county sits at the northern edge of the New York City NWS region, and neighboring counties are serviced by Binghamton, Albany, and Philadelphia. Their net (county north of me) is reporting to Albany, so my data would be useless to them even if I could hit their repeater. None of the other nearby counties have a similar net that I know of.
FWIW, my station (K2BIG) posts data via that new-fangled
APRS technology via the Internet. I have a TNC and everything in place to send data via 2M APRS, but sadly live at the bottom of a terrain bowl that makes hitting the APRS igates challenging.....