FYI: WeatherBug Streamer 3.0 Enables Emergency Managers and First Responders

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Carl

 

  

    WeatherBug Streamer 3.0 Enables 
      Emergency Managers and First Responders to Act Faster and Save Lives 
        
     
     
    

  

    Written by WeatherBug   
    

  

    

  

    Wednesday, 10 August 
      2005
GERMANTOWN, Md.--Aug. 9, 
      2005--WeatherBug: Alerts and Improved Mapping Technology Provide 
      Superior Weather Intelligence With Highly Granular, Integrated Weather 
      Reports, Enabling Professionals To Better Identify and Track Wind 
      Conditions and Approaching Severe Weather Events 
      
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WeatherBug, the leading provider of live, local weather information 
      services, today announced the release of WeatherBug Streamer 3.0, an 
      online application that provides instantaneous, integrated weather 
      intelligence for first responders (http://www.weatherbuggovernment.com/firstresp/default.asp). 
      Streamer is the only application that displays data from the WeatherBug 
      proprietary network of 8,000 Tracking Stations throughout the U.S. 

      
Only WeatherBug Streamer 3.0 offers emergency managers and first 
      responders exclusive live, local weather conditions with personalized 
      severe weather data. Severe weather alerts from the National Weather 
      Service, "threshold" alerts set from any of the WeatherBug Tracking 
      Stations, radar-based severe weather alerts, and multiple data layering 
      assure pinpoint accuracy and relevancy enabling government customers to 
      better prepare and respond to emergency situations. 

      
Weather reports from alternative weather information providers are 
      based at airports and can be more than an hour old. With its exclusive 
      network plus more than 8,000 Tracking Stations and 1,000 cameras 
      throughout the U.S., WeatherBug Streamer 3.0 delivers up-to-the-second, 
      customizable views of weather data including current weather and wind 
      conditions, local radar, current weather contour, satellite, lightning 
      strikes, live camera views and forecast updates. With this product 
      release, emergency managers can precisely assess the impact of current 
      weather conditions and determine which municipalities to evacuate, select 
      approach routes for first-responders, and choose the type of equipment to 
      dispatch to a disaster site. 

      
WeatherBug Streamer 3.0 allows users to select up to 23 warnings, 
      including: alerts for storms, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, 
      non-precipitation, marine warnings and advisories, fire weather and civil 
      emergency severe warnings. Alert thresholds can be set for low and high 
      temperatures, heat index, average and current wind speeds, wind chill, 
      wind gusts, rain rate and daily accumulation of rain. This combination of 
      historical data and personalized, up-to-the-second reports introduces an 
      unprecedented level of precision to the tracking and analysis of weather. 
      Users also have the ability to select and monitor lightning, hail and 
      heavy precipitation. The application visibly and audibly alerts the user 
      when active alerts post in their selected regions. 

      
WeatherBug Streamer 3.0 also enables public safety departments to 
      observe and interpret up to five layers of weather data on the same map, 
      such as humidity and heat index. This enables Streamer customers to 
      monitor potentially dangerous weather, such as lightning or a tornado. For 
      greater precision, users can pan and zoom selected maps of roads and 
      counties, integrating their own custom layer data, such as fire hydrants, 
      hospitals or other data. This unique perspective assures pinpoint accuracy 
      and relevance. 

      
"With Hurricane Season well underway, severe weather often hampers 
      first responders' ability to respond as quickly as they would like to the 
      needs of their community," said John Doherty, senior vice president, 
      professional services at WeatherBug. "With WeatherBug Streamer, our 
      customers now have critical weather information available - anywhere, to 
      help protect and serve within 'the golden hour', the most critical period 
      of saving time and saving lives." 

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification 
Program
OGC

 

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