Live Video Streaming + Highlights

[MAF]

i can see on the gps they are in the heart of some heavy stuff. but the stream is not working so no views of it. must be getting dark now i would imagine

[Paul]

Hi all, if you're struggling to connect to the stream please refresh the page, we've had to make some changes due to a few technical probs.

http://www.netweathe...chaselive;sess=

You may notice a new ad type plays on your first visit to the page, this will only happen once and then no other ads will play when you play the stream...

[Nick L]

Seems to have gone again, is it simply because of being in a low coverage area?

Edit: back online again.

Edited April 30, 2010 by nick2702

[craig1uk]

Wow, they seem to be approaching the west coast of Africa there for a min, did u see that

[MAF]

heading straight for some heavy weather on R63 i see.

whats the max speed limit out there?

[Paul]

Quick update - we've changed the radar/gps system a little so that the radar now updates automatically, which should hopefully make it easier to follow what's going on...

[Roger J Smith]

Just adding some information here on U.S. highway systems. I'm sure the chasers know this stuff but some people following from the U.K. may not be aware of these designations.

The highest level of U.S. highway would be an interstate highway, shown on maps with a blue shield with a white number. These are multi-lane highways usually with controlled ramp access only. A spur of an interstate near a city may have the sub-designation B-### to show that it serves a business area.

The next rank of highways that were in existence before the interstate system would be the U.S. Highways. These are shown on maps with shield-like logos with a number, no colour code. Like the interstate system, an even number indicates an east-west route, while an odd number indicates a north-south route. Some of these have very long routes, and the most famous of them is "route 66" which runs from Chicago to Los Angeles. Large parts of that one have been supplanted by interstate highways. Americans refer to them as "route" whatever, and in some parts of the states the word route sounds like rout.

Below the U.S. highway system is the state highway system. These tend to be of more or less equal quality to the U.S. highways, in fact they are often better to drive on because the U.S. highways were often surveyed and laid out near the beginning of the 20th century so they make a lot of jogs. The state highways are found on the maps in circles or ovals. The typical American reference to them in conversation would be something like "Montana route 34" whereas in Canada (where we don't have a federal highway system, only provincial highways) we would call the same road "Highway 34."

Then there's a system of regional roads that are often run by counties but in some states like Texas they have a wider management system and they call these "farm roads." These might sound pretty rough and ready but in fact many of these county roads are still highways up to almost the same standard as state highways. Almost all of them are paved and the main difference you might expect with them, is that the shoulders (verges) are narrower. These roads are usually shown on maps in a square or rectangular symbol and sometimes they have letters rather than numbers, for example in Missouri. There are also systems of forestry roads in some western states. If you're chasing a storm on a forestry road, you'd better hope they have clear-cuts.

Many parts of North America were surveyed in rectangular lot systems and the road system followed this except where the terrain forced changes. This is why you often see long stretches of straight roads in North America with little jogs where two different surveys intersect. Unless there is a major disruption in the terrain, these long straight roads can go on for many miles. In Ontario, where they have townships within counties, the local country roads are all known as "lines" if they run north-south and "concessions" if they run east-west. Some entire townships are laid out in one large grid. Meanwhile, in many western towns and cities (both in Canada and the U.S.) they only name city streets on a numerical grid, so that most of the roads are either "streets" or "avenues" with numbers for names, and the addresses are like points on a graph so you can instantly find anyone's address just from the numbers without looking on a map. This is not the case in the eastern half of the continent except in parts of Manhattan in New York City and one or two other places, partly because these cities are older and developed before the large surveys took place, so the streets are not on such a regular grid pattern.

Anyway, a bit of trivia to read when there's no active weather.

[iangec]

Good Pictures but has the sound gone for a techie reason?

[Stuart]

why the live stream nerver on now

[Nick F]

A few technical glitches Stu, Netweather are working on getting everything back online ASAP. Unfortunately we no longer have the technical wizards out there to sort it out on the spot, i.e. Paul, John Hanrahan, Tom Lynch, etc.