On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:56:39PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Curt, WE7U wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > > > >> I'm looking at Hanna and Ike on Xastir, but each has a number of > >> circles, red, green, yellow around them. Would someone in the know > >> please give me (and the rest of us land lubbers) the skinny on this, > >> tell us how all this happens. > > > > Those are the three different wind speeds that are reported for each > > Tropical depression/tropical storm/hurricane. > > > > The rings show wx_whole_gale_radius, wx_trop_storm_radius, and > > wx_hurricane_radius (Xastir's variable names for them). If you see > > all three circles the smallest one shows the radius of > > hurricane-force winds, the next larger is the radius of tropical > > storm winds. > > > > If the storm/hurricane doesn't get up to the max speed you may only > > see two rings. Same for one ring if it doesn't make it to the > > second scale. > > > What do you turn on to see these? I have the NWSRadar.geo on. Am I > missing a file?
Connect to an APRS-IS server with a range large enough to be fed objects from the area in which the hurricanes are forming/moving. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R. Bach _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
