blue sky Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 In my opinion...the Mount Holly Radar should have a top priority. Resources should be spent on keeping the darn thing up. This should be ahead of community engagement. Ahead of sending a team to investigate whether wind damage was straight line or tornadic. They should build a second RADAR! This is not directed at the folks at Mount Holly. It's directed at the upper ups. July forth picnic pool time. Can't go to the nws for my radar...have to go to Accuweather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatamy Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 I strongly agree and think the place to put it is in Tobyhanna. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGorse Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 2 hours ago, blue sky said: In my opinion...the Mount Holly Radar should have a top priority. Resources should be spent on keeping the darn thing up. This should be ahead of community engagement. Ahead of sending a team to investigate whether wind damage was straight line or tornadic. They should build a second RADAR! This is not directed at the folks at Mount Holly. It's directed at the upper ups. July forth picnic pool time. Can't go to the nws for my radar...have to go to Accuweather. The radar is a priority, however when parts fail they have to be shipped in. Our techs work hard maintaining it and making repairs. Unfortunately parts do wear out as the radar is always running (outside of preventative maintenance). Also, this radar has not had many failures the last few years. Building a second radar would be great but will likely not happen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane Agnes Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Looks like KDIX is back up and running. Kudos to the techs for that, especially with the Friday progged storms ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenmsav6810 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 On 7/4/2018 at 5:24 PM, MGorse said: The radar is a priority, however when parts fail they have to be shipped in. Our techs work hard maintaining it and making repairs. Unfortunately parts do wear out as the radar is always running (outside of preventative maintenance). Also, this radar has not had many failures the last few years. Building a second radar would be great but will likely not happen. I really think this is an opportunity for some novel research. Do you know if there are many interchangeable parts between radar systems? Is this an opportunity where a Kanban system would be useful? Also, I imagine that the best time for radar to be down is during long-duration high-pressure systems when the atmosphere is most stable. I wonder if outages could be planned using a mathematical concept called a Markov Chain to take advantage of this fact. As an aside I think a good investment for radar would be fixing some of the holes 6000ft holes in the Upper Lancaster/Western Berks area. It is compounded by coverage issues southwest in Western Virginia area. Is there any sort of formal triage process for these sorts of things? I imagine a nice mathematical weighting function could help in prioritizing improvements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGorse Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 On 7/10/2018 at 12:04 AM, zenmsav6810 said: I really think this is an opportunity for some novel research. Do you know if there are many interchangeable parts between radar systems? Is this an opportunity where a Kanban system would be useful? Also, I imagine that the best time for radar to be down is during long-duration high-pressure systems when the atmosphere is most stable. I wonder if outages could be planned using a mathematical concept called a Markov Chain to take advantage of this fact. As an aside I think a good investment for radar would be fixing some of the holes 6000ft holes in the Upper Lancaster/Western Berks area. It is compounded by coverage issues southwest in Western Virginia area. Is there any sort of formal triage process for these sorts of things? I imagine a nice mathematical weighting function could help in prioritizing improvements. The radar parts are changed out when they need to be, but keep in mind these radars are on all the time except for maintenance. The replacement parts are also reconditioned many times so they may not last as long. As for adding a radar in the Lancaster to Harrisburg areas, that would be great but likely not happening. There are some studies starting to see how lowering the lowest elevation angle will affect data and others. I believe the State College and Buffalo radars are part of this, and my office put in for this for our radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Iceman Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 bump. any idea on how long this current outage will be? No KDOX either and severe weather possible today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSky Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 The Yugo of weather radars in the shop again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane Agnes Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 KDIX is back up. KDOX is still down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenmsav6810 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Even the radar is tired of the rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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