JLH@PSUVM.PSU.EDU (12/20/90)
From: <JLH@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Does anyone know if there is a way to find out the current weather conditions at US Military Bases? Reason I am asking is that my son is stationed at Camp Covington in Guam. I talked to him this morning and he said they are bracing for Typhoon Russ which is expected to hit Guam sometime during the next 48 hours and is expected to do major damage to the island. I would like to track this and future storms but I don't know how to get the data. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) (12/21/90)
From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) JLH asked about weather in Guam. The Joint typhoon tracking center is located at Guam. When I was on Iwo Jima, they would courteously add us to the addee list on the warning messages if it looked like we might be in the path of one. The messages came in every four or six hours; I'd plot them with a grease pencil in my office. For confirmations ad a bit more graphic information, I'd tool over to the Japanese base and look at the weather faxes in their aero briefing center -- which came from the same warning center in Guam. (Since Loran stations aren't supposed to be in the weather business, we didn't have a fax machine....) All of this stuff was unclassified and weather faxes were broadcast in the clear on several HF frequencies. None of which probably helps JLH much ... typical civilian weather reports are rather local. Gander at the weather channel on your cable TV...the one in my area frequently cuts to European weather reports. I haven't noticed any Pacific reports, but then I'm not exactly a connoisuer of the weather channel (Sesame Street, however, is a different story:-) Probably the best available source is flight services at an international airport. Guam, on the other hand, has rather boring weather. It's hot, muggy, ... almost all the time. Except for the typhoons, there isn't much else. And Russ is quite late in the season; a leftover. Rex Buddenberg