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11-25-2024 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing for November 25, 2024
National Current Ops / Monitoring – November 24–25, 2024
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• No significant incidents / operations
Hazard Monitoring:
• Heavy Snow – Oregon, California, Utah
• Freezing Rain – Northeast
• Mixed Precipitation – Pacific Northwest, Central/Northern Plains, Great Lakes, Northeast
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• No significant events
11-25-2024 - Today, school kids show off their new cell phones. When I was a school kid, the thing to show off was a pocket transistor radio emitting "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles. Continued . . .
11-25-2024 - 5:32 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 54. North wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 34. North wind 8 to 13 mph becoming light after midnight.
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11-25-2024 - 5:32 AM - NOAA SPACE WEATHER - Last 24 Hrs: Radio Blackouts (R2 - Moderate) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None) Current: Radio Blackouts (R - None) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None). Solar Wind Speed: 426 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 7 nT, Bz 5 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 203 sfu
11-25-2024 - 5:32 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 70.6% Kemp: 100.0% Kickapoo: 69.5. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 83.4% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (70.05%) to determine drought stage.
11-25-2024 - 5:32 AM - ERCOT (Texas) snapshot of grid conditions - ERCOT reports that conditions are normal and there is enough power for current demand with an operating reserve of 10,236 Megawatts.
11-25-2024 - 5:32 AM - Good Morning! It's Monday! There are no local Amateur (ham) Radio nets today, but there is assorted activity on the scanner radio. The WFISD begins their Thanksgiving break today, so there will be no school bus or school handheld radio traffic. The Cowboys put on an interesting show yesterday and, on top of that, they won! According to the National Weather Service, Wichita Falls reached 80 degrees yesterday. Today, we can expect a high of 54 degrees. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
11-24-2024 - 8:00 PM - The Wichita Amateur Radio Society weekly informal net is on the air on the 147.140 MHz repeater. They meet every Sunday at 8:00 PM.
11-24-2024 - I'm flipping back and forth between the Chiefs - Panthers and the Cowboys - Commanders games and scanning the 20-meter Amateur (ham) Radio band for Parks on the Air® traffic. The 20-meter band, however, must be taking a nap because signals are weak. It's back to football, I guess.
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11-24-2024 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing for November 24, 2024
National Current Ops / Monitoring – November 23–24, 2024
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• No significant incidents / operations
Hazard Monitoring:
• Heavy Snow – Northern California, Northern Intermountain
• Mixed Precipitation – Pacific Northwest, California, Great Lakes, Northeast
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• No significant events
11-24-2024 - There are several places where you can see streetcar tracks in Wichita Falls - North 8th and North Brook, North 9th and North Brook, and Harrison and Collins. There are probably other spots I'm not aware of. There were no streetcars in service when my family moved to town in 1966. As a kid in St. Louis, I rode the streetcars for 12¢, the same as the price of a White Castle slider.
11-24-2024 - If you're a CB Radio enthusiast, a local group has been meeting at 5:30 PM on CB Radio Channel 23 most nights of the week in Wichita Falls for many years.
11-24-2024 - The Wichita Amateur Radio Society holds a weekly informal net on Sundays at 8:00 PM on the club's 147.140 MHz repeater. As far as I know, all licensed Amateur (ham) Radio operators are invited to check in. Of course, scanner radio enthusiasts can also tune in.
11-24-2024 - 5:37 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 79. South southwest wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Tonight: Clear, with a low around 48. South southwest wind around 10 mph becoming north northwest after midnight.
11-24-2024 - 5:37 AM - NOAA SPACE WEATHER - Last 24 Hrs: Radio Blackouts (R1 - Minor) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None) Current: Radio Blackouts (R - None) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None). Solar Wind Speed: 426 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 7 nT, Bz 6 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 200 sfu.
11-24-2024 - 5:37 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 70.8% Kemp: 100.0% Kickapoo: 69.7. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 83.4% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (70.25%) to determine drought stage.
11-24-2024 - 5:37 AM - ERCOT (Texas) snapshot of grid conditions - ERCOT reports that conditions are normal and there is enough power for current demand with an operating reserve of 10,239 Megawatts.
11-24-2024 - 5:37 AM - Good Morning! It's Simplex Sunday, a day to give those Amateur Radio repeaters a break if possible and flex those simplex muscles. It's like giving your generator a regular run. Use the more inclusive two-meter FM simplex. Analog, please! GMRS users, you can play, too! My coffee is ready!
11-23-2024 - I made contact with KB3MDD at Brazos Bend State Park (US-2992) in Texas on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.