> > From: "Bob Woodson" <woods{at}pipeline.com> > To: CASILIST > > Would like to obtain a surface plotting chart that is updated with the ASOS locations along with the three or > four letter station identifier. I am particularly interested in the South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia > region. Will use chart to dtermine exact station locations and also > to handplot data for mesoscale analysis. I have contacted several NWS offices for plotting charts but with > no luck . Any suggestions will > be appreciated. > > Bob Woodson > Raleigh, NC > www.qsl.net/kf4mmm > Bob, the best surface plot of NC that I know of is at: http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/gifs/SURFACE/sec/00LATEST.gif It has some but not all of the ASOS stations; few free places have them all, and it depends on which database people are using as to how many of the recently commissioned ASOS they have. However, that one has KGEV which gives me some hope, I think that was commissioned last year. There is also this page, pick NC. http://taiga.geog.niu.edu/machine/surface.html It will also give you the ID's, not on the same chart. Disadvantage to this image is that you can't link directly to it, you have to fill out the form each time. One of my main projects for this year for CASI is to create a map with interactive observations for each state on the east coast, a map which also incorporates links to AWS and amateur stations. There are other surface plots of the region but those are the ones that stick in my mind that are zoomed into NC. The ohio state one has problems updating occasionally, I am sure they all do. -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "They're not who we're looking for; they're just meteorologists- storm chasers." --Peter Watts, "Millennium" || ICQ No. 136832 || ---------------------------------------------------------------------