Topic: KBUF - dual-pol upgrade began this morn

[mackbig]

Guess I will have to edit my half hourly site monitoring email.  KBUF will be down for 11 days while the upgrade is completed.

Andrew

NEXRAD Radar KBUF status: No Data [last data 6665 secs ago] as of Mon, 26-Mar-2012 8:24am EDT

Message date: Mon, 26-Mar-2012 6:37am EDT
WSR-88D NOTIFICATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
636 AM EST MON MAR 26 2012
03/26/2012 1036 UTC
ADJACENT WFO'S...CLE...BGM...CTP...BTV...ALY.
THE KBUF WILL BE DOWN FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME TO UPGRADE TO
DUAL POLARIZATION. THE RADAR WILL GO OFFLINE THIS MORNING...AND IS
EXPECTED TO RETURN TO SERVICE BY FRIDAY APRIL 6TH. DURING THIS
TIME...NEIGHBORING WSR-88D RADARS THAT WILL BE UTILIZED ARE...
KCLE - CLEVELAND OH
KPBZ - PITTSBURGH PA
KCCX - STATE COLLEGE PA
KBGM - BINGHAMTON NY
KTYX - MONTAGUE NY
KENX - ALBANY NY
HIBBERT

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[mackbig]

Even though the site is still down for another week, they have removed the text about the outage...
I guess I will hard code a message on my radar page, as now it just looks like my site is broken.

I already put this image on my mobile site, cause it is not "dynamic" like my main site. No "dont show image if older than..." logic on the mobile.



Andrew

NEXRAD Radar KBUF status: No Data [last data 80976 secs ago] as of Fri, 30-Mar-2012 7:40am EDT

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