Navigating The
NEWA Site:
Our site is designed with a streamlined left
navigation bar to make the weather services you use most often more easily
accessible for the current year. The navigation bar on the top is designed to give
you the most information including climate information from past years. No matter what it is you are looking for on
the NEWA site, it's only a few clicks away!
For more information on this site and to track changes from year to year
check out the What’s New
Page.
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The
Map provides the locations of the weather equipment and provides links to
select the station from the map. When
you select a weather station from the map you are taken to a page that is
dedicated to that site with all the pertinent crop forecasts and weather
forecasts for that area. There is also
information about what parameters the weather site records and latitude,
longitude and elevation information. A
more detailed map showing the location of the logger is also provided. Data that appears on these pages is for the
current season. There is no
significance to the use of number and letters that appear on the map marking
weather station locations. |
The upper navigation bar is designed to provide the
most in depth weather information including data from past years. There is also detailed National Weather
forecast information and links to AccuWeather a
private forecasting firm. There are
links to specific crop commodities and it is with the links you will find
current as well as past forecast information.
You will also be able to access information on how to use specific
crop forecasts. Links below the main menubar
are provided to supply crop specific information including Crop Guidelines, links to fact
sheets on specific pest and crop updates. There are also forecasts highlighting drought
conditions and forecasts for the country. The drop down menu is designed to select specific
information about individual stations. |
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Side Navigation Layout
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Left Navigation Bar The left navigation bar is designed to give the
user seasonal information for all stations.
This information is specific to the current season. There are again links to National Weather
Service Forecasts as well as extended forecasts. There is also links to current radar
information. The weather data links
provide summary data for all weather station in the
network. There is also links to the
hourly data and degree day information for various base temperatures. Degree day information is useful for timing
insect development and crop development.
Links for the crop commodities follows. Specific crop forecasts can be obtained
here for all stations. Not all
stations forecast all crop forecasts.
The forecast that each station is capable of providing forecasts will
be listed. Crops for which forecast
models exists are: Apples: Apple
Scab and fire blight. Degree days Base
43F are also provided. Cabbage: Cabbage
maggot degree day model Cucurbits
(vine crops): Calendar for major diseases and downy forecast page from Alfalfa: Alfalfa
weevil degree day Base 48F for western and central NY. Grapes: Grape
disease forecasts for powdery mildew, downy mildew and black rot. Onions: Disease
forecasts for Botrytis leaf blight a NY model and a Potatoes: Forecasts for Late Blight are
provided. Early Blight forecasts are
also provided using P-Day values. Sweet Corn: Links to Pheomone trap reports are provided. Tomatoes: Links to forecasting Early Blight are calculated
using TomCast a model developed in There is also links to Evapotranspiration
information for those growers who irrigate. |
