Cheryl's Spot on the Web
As of this afternoon, the Severe Weather Outlook page presents a table of the Storm Prediction Center’s Convective Outlooks through day 8 (instead of just days 1 through 3). As described on the page, the table only lists places of particular interest to me, but it is a somewhat representative cross-section of the country.
On March 3, 2026 the Storm Prediction Center changed their convective outlooks to use Conditional Intensity Groups (CIG) instead of the simpler “significant” designation. This was a major change for my interpreter program, which took two days of work to simply restore the program’s ability to display the outlooks in their original format. While the…
On January 12 (UTC), the Intel NUC that had been creating the SPC Outlooks and Weather Gauges pages…failed. Since the device had not yet transferred to Maine with us, we couldn’t restart it or troubleshoot the problem (motherboard failure, so we couldn’t remotely access it at all). Last evening, we moved the software that creates…
Major updates to the travel pages are finally published. About two dozen trips have been completed/updated/created, and documentation is now complete through the most recent completed trip. The Acadia National Park-area hiking (etc.) map has been recreated from scratch, and new activity-specific maps are available for hiking, bicycling, e-biking, and rowing, in addition to the…
I finally got around to re-adding the time and temperature information on the front page. Since I’m semi-officially a resident of Maine now, I also switched the location to Maine, from Oklahoma. I’ve also added a few new maps to the Travel pages, but progress is rather slow. The travel pages are a few years…
Because of thousands of spam comments (mostly in Russian) over the past few months, and, so far as I know, zero legitimate comments, I have added a couple of plugins to deal with this problem. If they fail, I will remove WordPress from this website, and make my own “blog” page via HTML, like it…
A while ago, I wanted a personal page where I could look at the Storm Prediction Center’s (SPC’s) Day 1 to 3 Convective Outlooks in a specific format that was (and still is, actually) useful to me. I figured that I would put it on the public portion of my website in case anyone else…
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Well, after a fair number of years (10? 20? …dunno) of using WordPress for my on-again/off-again blog, it finally bit the proverbial dust when I tried to upgrade to WP6.2. And, of course, I never do backups of the blog, since it’s generally been useless trivia and website update info…nothing actually important. So…this is blog,…