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The site above is a reminder of the observations of yester-year when a
much better description of weather was regularly available through the
surface observations and the greatest care was taken to avoid the most
trivial mistake. There were instances of updated forecasts due to data
that the trained observer recorded that is not easily detected by
satellite. I checked for observations from central and coastal Florida
over the past 48 hours. No on site lightning detectors at the sites I
checked. Equipment failure before wind gusts reach 60KT. My home
weather station can do better than that and it runs for thirty hours
after power failure - on triple A cells. Power blackouts - with no
back-up generator. How much does it cost to repair or install a
lightning detector? Is our government's debt so severe that we cannot
even afford a workable system and have fallen behind some other
nation's observation systems as a result? In the lower 48, plus
Alaska, I have to go ten, twenty, and thirty years back into the
logbooks in order to retrieve accurate and detailed surface
observations, especially when studying events related to thunderstorm
activity, nor'easters, blizzards and tropical cyclones.

Regards,
Lou


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