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     It Never Felt So Cold!  Perception  has a lot to do with how someone feels. If you are told  it is 30 below zero and it really is only 10 below, you  will still act as if it is 30 below.       For more than 50 years the NWS and forecasters have been  telling you the wind chill and you have been preparing for  the worst. It turns out this formula needed some serious  upgrading when research showed the values in the formula  were much too low. The old wind chill did the public a disservice  by convincing people they could safely endure extreme cold.  More often, it scared people into staying indoors when they  could safely go out, and it prompted unnecessary school  and business closings.  Specifically, the old wind chill was too cold since it  was based on wind measurements at 33 feet (the official  height for wind observations), which can be 3 times as strong  as the wind at the surface. In 1945, Antarctic explorers  Siple and Passel developed the first wind chill index by  measuring the heat loss from a container of water as it  froze while suspended from the 33-foot pole. When the old  formula was developed, the technology did not exist to verify  the accuracy those index values.   The new formula, implemented Nov 1, 2001, uses winds measured  at 5 feet, which is much more representative of the wind  that a human body experiences. The new Wind Chill/Temperature  Index also makes use of advances in meteorology, biometeorology  and computer modeling to provide a more accurate, useful  formula for calculating the dangers from winter winds and  freezing temperatures. In addition, clinical trials have  been conducted and the results of those trials have been  used to verify and improve the accuracy of the new formula.  Check out the new Wind Chill values by watching the live  weather from your closest WeatherBug weather station as  well as checking the windiest and coldest sites on Wild  Weather in the Cool Links/Resources section of your WeatherBug.    Mark Hoekzema WeatherBug Meteorologist       Idaho  Business Uses Live Weather to Increase Its Visibility     In Idaho, weather is serious business. Which is exactly  why Dan Heuck purchased an AWS WeatherNet System for use  by his businesses - Dan's Ferry Service and Country Store.    Located along the Snake River in Walter's Ferry, ID, Dan's  WeatherNet System provides a valuable service to community  members: local farmers and ranchers use the humidity readings  to monitor the best times for crop retrieval, snow enthusiasts  check out the live weather conditions before they leave  the Boise city limits and duck hunters access the images  from Dan's WeatherNet Camera before venturing outside.   Heuck notes that his store's visibility has significantly  increased since he purchased the WeatherNet System for his  business. "The response to our WeatherNet Weather Station  has been great - especially since KTVB/Channel 7 in Boise,  Idaho has picked up our name and stats for use in their  weathercasts."  For more information on how your business can benefit from  real-time weather information, contact Gary Milwit, Director  of Commercial Sales at 1-800-544-4429 ext. 1621 or e-mail  gmilwit@aws.com       	     School WeatherNet Bolsters Geology Program     Real-time weather information generated from the AWS WeatherNet  System is creatively used in thousands of K-12 classrooms  nationwide. Patrick Hayhurst, a geology teacher at Lancaster  HS in Lancaster, CA, has integrated live, real-time weather      Advertisement [IMAGE]              information from the School WeatherNet Program, which makes  up the WeatherBug Network, into his high school geology  courses. Mr. Hayhurst also uses AWS lesson plans to fit  his curriculum needs in the classroom. "Each day when we  turn on the computer projector, we pull up the WeatherBug  to check out the weather for that day. Often times we will  look at the Long Beach WeatherNet Camera to see what it  is like down by the beach. Then we will take a look at the  WeatherBug weather trivia question for the day." Mr. Hayhurst's  students use resources available on http://aws.com   and the Web to answer the trivia questions.   Click on http://www.lnhs.org/geoscience/weather/   to see Lancaster High School's WeatherNet page.  To learn how your school can join the largest weather network  in the world and become part of the WeatherBug Network,  call 800-544-4429 or email edsales@aws.com .  ** Try out WeatherNet Classroom, our newly designed interactive  lesson plans and classroom applications at http://classroom.aws.com   **        WeatherBug  Tip of the Month: Getting Back Home     When you click on Travel Weather and enter a new city,  your 'Bug displays all the weather data for that city. An  easy way to get back to your "home" conditions is to click  on the words, "Click Here to Return Home" in the upper left  corner of your 'Bug. It's a shortcut that will get you home  fast!          Louisiana  TV Stations Provide Technology Training for Schools     Earlier this month, WWL-TV (Channel 4) in New Orleans and  WBRZ-TV (Channel 2) in Baton Rouge sponsored WeatherNet  Teacher Workshops for their local schools. The workshops  provided schools with an opportunity to meet their favorite  on-air weathercasters, network with other teachers and learn  how to use the WeatherNet Classroom technology (which WeatherBug  is built on) as a springboard for teaching their students  math, science, geography, computer skills, social studies  - even language arts!   The workshops were declared a huge success by the schools  and the TV stations alike. Rick Reso, Marketing Services  Director for WWL-TV summed it up nicely: "Local TV stations  have a commitment to serve their communities and help schools  integrate technology into their classrooms. If we can help  a teacher become more comfortable using computers and the  Internet, then everyone benefits."         	   WeatherBug  ThunderCall-- the call before the storm!     Now you can receive severe weather warnings by phone whenever  the National Weather Service releases a severe weather warning!  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