Sussex REC Weather Links

Accurate and timely weather data is extremely important to electric utilities. Current and short term forecasts are useful in scheduling crews in anticipation of severe storms that can cause power outages. On especially hot or cold days, we can plan strategies on managing our system load to be sure the right amount of power is always available across our system. We also use historical weather data to forecast our load for the upcoming year. We then send the forecast to the power supply operation so they can buy enough power to meet our needs.

Since we have such an interest in weather information we thought we would share some useful links with you. As the old saying goes, everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it. Well, we can't help you do much about the weather so this page is devoted to providing you with links and information that will insure you have plenty of weather data to talk about!

What's here? Weather links, links to makers of weather instruments, a weather photo or two and links to software that you might find interesting. Enjoy and become the weather expert of your neighborhood.

Have a link you would like to share? Photos? Stories? Send them to us at info@sussexrec.com.

Weather Information

Use the following links to access a wide range of weather and climate data for both Sussex and the United States.

The NJ Herald is beefing up their site with a combination of real time radar and a personal forecast feature you can use to check weather for your individual needs. Go here for the main weather page or click the Personal Forecast link below.

Accuweather  Click to see the weather for Sussex, NJ according to Accuweather - offers a 15 day forecast and other weather data archives.

The Weather Channel  Click to see the weather for Sussex, NJ according to The Weather Channel.

Rutgers University   This is the Climate Lab site and has links for the Office of the NJ State Climatologist, the NJ Weather and Climate Network and the Global Snow Lab that monitors Northern Hemisphere snow cover since 1966.

National Weather Service  The nearest NWS station to Sussex is Philadelphia/Mount Holly. Click here for their data.

Wunderground  The Weather Underground site's forecast for Sussex, NJ.

Degree Day Data  Takes you to our page with degree day data.

Weather Instrument Sources

Want to be your own backyard weather person? Then you are in luck as there are numerous offerings for your consideration. The first of the following links is to the Davis company in California. They have excellent equipment (known from personal experience - ed. note). The second is to a catalog that carries Davis and other lines.

Davis Weather Instruments 

Wind and Weather

C. Crane Company  In bad weather nothing seems as comforting as a good radio and C. Crane Company offers some fine radios for your consideration.

Spectacular Mammatus Clouds over Hastings, Nebraska
 These photos were taken by Jorn Olsen, he lives on Heartwell Park in Hastings, Nebraska.
 e-mail - jolsen@dutton-lainson.com
His website is:  http://www.jornolsen.com which you may be interested in looking at.
Three of these photos were featured on the front and back cover of the Journal of Meteorology
and circulated in 26 countries.

Send us your photos and we'll post them here. e-mail to info@sussexrec.com.

Software

The following links take you to some cool free software that you can enjoy.

Google Earth   Google provides this package that enables you to tour the world. What does it have to do with weather? Well, you can see clouds in a lot of the scenes...

NASA Wind   Not to be outdone by Google, NASA offers their world touring software and ups the ante with access to similar capabilities for some nearby celestial bodies like the Moon and Saturn!

Google Sketchup  A slick 3D drawing program from our friends at Google. You can create your dream home then place it in Google Earth and see what it looks like on your dream piece of property. How cool is that?