![]() ![]() “We still need the national weather service radars, but this is just another layer. “I just have another choice now,” she says. Pope says The Weather Company integrates the new radar seamlessly into her weather presentation. “We have it overlaid with other radar sites. “That has been the really cool part about it,” he says. Hall says the Climavision radar data integrates into the station’s animation and graphic display easily. The station took that information to interrupt normal programming with live cuts-ins telling viewers, “we have trees down in every county, get ready.” “I put that Climavision radar right on it and it was giving me wind estimates of 50 miles an hour.” “The national service radars were giving readings of 20 to 30 miles an hour,” Pope says. Pope tells a similar story about a severe thunderstorm system in her area with winds estimated at 70 miles per hour. The low-level scans of these new radars are where they really shine.” In the first images we got of that tornado, we could see a very clear debris signature that the other radars further away couldn’t make out. “We had a confirmed tornado go through a portion of our viewing area that was very close to the newly installed radar. Hall says the day WRDW first turned on the radar was a severe weather day in Augusta. So I would say it’s crucial as a meteorologist to have that view - when you don’t have that view, you are flying somewhat blind.” I have spent the last 25 years in either the Charlotte or Winston Salem market and in both of those markets we had that radar gap where we are sort of in between weather services radars. ![]() “It gives us an ability to see things that are a lot closer to the ground. “When I heard we were going to get something in a location we really needed it, I was thrilled,” says Lanie Pope, chief meteorologist at WXII, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, N.C. “It was put in a very strategic spot to where it filled in the radar gap in our area,” says Riley Hall, chief meteorologist for WRDW, Gray’s CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate in Augusta, Ga. TV stations that have signed up for the service say the location of the Climavision radars is critical. Click here to support Block Club with a tax-deductible donation.“These weather radars are augmenting the existing government NEXRAD radars focused on filling the low-level gaps that exist between those systems,” says Chris Goode, CEO of Climavision, which is partnering with The Weather Company, to make its network of radars available to broadcasters on a market-exclusive subscription basis. Every dime we make funds reporting from Chicago’s neighborhoods. Thanks for subscribing to Block Club Chicago, an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. Every dime we make funds reporting from Chicago’s neighborhoods.Ĭlick here to support Block Club with a tax-deductible donation. Subscribe to Block Club Chicago, an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. Staffing shortages and other challenges have plagued the CTA during the pandemic, leading to unreliable bus and train service across the system.įor alerts and travel information, visit the CTA’s website. ![]() The CTA is also adding more trips between the O’Hare and UIC-Halsted stations to ensure there are enough trains on the busiest section of the line, beefing up rush-hour staffing and making more frequent platform announcements. The track work is just one part of a larger plan to provide better service on the O’Hare branch, one of the busiest in the transit system, CTA officials have said. “The weekend line cuts from the end of February until this past weekend allowed crews to quickly replace the 50-year-old tracks, while also isolating the construction-related service disruption to the weekend,” Kilgannon said. Work was limited to the weekends between 10 p.m. The Belmont crossover was 50 years old and needed to be replaced, officials said. Credit: CTA Crews replacing the 50-year-old Belmont crossover.Ĭrossovers allow the CTA to move trains between different sets of tracks for maintenance. With the new Belmont crossover in place, normal weekend service will resume Friday, CTA officials said. Some bus stops were also moved to allow for construction.Įarlier this week, crews finished the track work, marking the end of the months-long improvement project, CTA spokeswoman Maddie Kilgannon said. Riders had to take shuttles for eight weekends, which snarled travel to busy O’Hare Airport. The CTA suspended weekend service between the Addison and Western Blue Line stations beginning in late February to replace the old Belmont crossover, which had fallen into disrepair since it was built in the ’70s, officials said. LOGAN SQUARE - Blue Line trains will be back up and running this weekend after weeks of disrupted service and station closures.
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