About Server
WX OPS - a national weather ops floor We run this like a watch office, not a hangout. Two things make it different from every other weather server. ALERTS THAT FIND YOU Tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings arrive within about a minute of issuance, straight from the National Weather Service. Colour coded by threat, tagged with hail size, wind gusts and confirmed tornado status, with the nearest radar loop attached. Pick your region desk and you get pinged only for weather that is actually over you, not the whole country. PDS and tornado emergencies escalate on their own. Watches, SPC mesoscale discussions, convective and fire outlooks, storm reports and NHC advisories all have their own feeds. AND ALERTS THAT GET GRADED When a warning expires, the bot pulls the storm reports from that window, keeps the ones that fell inside the warning polygon, and marks it verified or unverified. Same treatment for SPC convective outlooks: how much of the day's severe actually landed inside the drawn risk areas. Nobody else does this, and it means the feed is a record rather than a firehose. AND YOU GET GRADED TOO A weekly forecast challenge on a rotating city, scored on absolute error plus a Brier term so hedging costs you. An outlook pick'em where you call tomorrow's SPC Day 1 category before SPC issues it. Beat the forecast, take the role. TOOLS IN THE CHAT /sounding for the latest skew-T. /meso for SPC mesoanalysis. /metar. /wx for conditions and alerts anywhere in the US. /stats for the verification scoreboard. FOURTEEN REGIONAL DESKS Northeast to Alaska-Hawaii. Your desk is where local detail lives and where you call for eyes on your area. CHASE, CLASSROOM, AVIATION, GEAR Targets and logistics with a chaser safety room that is not decorative. Ask-a-met with a hard no-gatekeeping rule, Skew-T breakdowns, model talk, event postmortems. Aviation weather. Station builds, radios and mesh, homebrew software. WHAT WE ARE NOT No hype accounts. No 300-hour GFS panic posts. No telling people to ride out a warning. We amplify official guidance and never compete with it. Those are enforced rules, not vibes. Forecast for a living, chase, spot, study it, or just watch the sky. Grab a desk and check in.
