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SLOweather:

--- Quote from: "kray1000" ---It even made our local newscast here in Roanoke.  All night long, huh??  Geez...

Saw some pretty good film of it, too.
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If you saw it on an NBC affiliate, that footage was from KSBY. They have a very cool hilltop studio location in the same hills as our home, 2 miles away. The STL microwave dishes are hidden in the cupola on top.



It overlooks US 101 and the south part of town, and they shoot a lot of their weather footage right from the balcony. The location used to be a restaurant.

The lightning started here about 7:30 PM and lasted until at least 2:30 or 3 AM. Not always intense, but always a flash visible at least every minute or 2. It was closeset in the early morning, and the surrounding mountains caused the thunder to echo and resonate for an extended period of time.

Chalk it up to a cutoff low that hovered over our area for a couple of days. We even saw a couple of strikes over the ridge about 8 miles away on Friday afternoon when we were out tubbin'.

tbweather:
Congratulations Chris. It would be interesting to know if the "advertising" of your website on the evening news has any appreciable effect on the number of visitors your website receives.

One of the meteorologists at a TV station about 75 miles from me has used weather data and webcam captures from my website in his weather segments several times (including displaying the URL on the screen) but I didn't notice any discernable jump in the number of visitors.

It would be interesting to know what your experience is.

SLOweather:
It's hard to tell how much of the bump came from the news, and how much from the storm. My stats always go up when the weather gets bad in the winter, and down in the summer when it's uniformly nice here.

Here are the SLOweather stats from USA Weather Finder for the last week. Note that this is a jpg. Copy and paste didn't format well. The 13th is the day after the storm:



Here's a plot of hits by date:



Unfortunately, I can't think of a way, at this point, to measure bumps after the morning and evening news. I think it's too late.

OTOH, I continue to hear from friends and  acquaintances that saw me on the news, plus a couple of hits on my SLOweather contacts page from people that don't know me that saw it.

capeweather:
Congrats Chris for making the news. My stats are just the opposite for summer months and fairly slow during the winter. You can see the trend for the last 12 months and notice a steady decline in traffic. It makes sense though since the winters are really nice here and summer usually produces bad weather (lightning, rain).

http://www.capeweather.com/advstats.html

Chris

SLOweather:
Here's a screen grab of a hits bump from USA Weather Finder for the Makakilo, HI site this week:



That huge increase in hits must be due to the earthquake.

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