Cheryl's Spot on the Web
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…
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,…