For the past 5 years or so, we used to get a graphical map of the combined models forecast. But now it seems you have to subscribe to get it, about $23 a year. Is that correct? I think we were getting it from something associated with WREL on the east coast. Is there anywhere else to get it?
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model graphics, now you have to pay?
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Yes, it's now a subscription item. http://WWW.midatlanticwx.com
Personally I think it's great but you can hunt around and find the same information on the net for free. I'd rather pay the money Scott does a wonderful job and his business is entitled to make a few bucks on it.
Personally I think it's great but you can hunt around and find the same information on the net for free. I'd rather pay the money Scott does a wonderful job and his business is entitled to make a few bucks on it.
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It is an enormous cost to run a website with high loads of traffic on a good hosting company.
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I'll chip in here...
I grabbed a subscription around the beginning of the season and after seeing a handful of invests already, which two went on to become tropical storms, paying the low price for this model data is certainly worth it.
I know Scott has mentioned a few times that is isn't something he wished to do, but with the high traffic to his site and the costs of maintaining servers and whatnot, it was just too much.
I grabbed a subscription around the beginning of the season and after seeing a handful of invests already, which two went on to become tropical storms, paying the low price for this model data is certainly worth it.
I know Scott has mentioned a few times that is isn't something he wished to do, but with the high traffic to his site and the costs of maintaining servers and whatnot, it was just too much.
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Working with IT, especially Enterprise level IT, on the sales and support side is my chosen profession. I can vouch not just for the cost of infrastructure to put a High-use Web Server in place, but the ongoing cost of keeping the thing running. I do not begrudge him asking users to help him support the cost. The site is an excellant compilation of information and is worth the small fee to help maintain it.
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