DTN/Meteorlogix has added new features to its MxVision WeatherSentry Turf Edition. Improved lightning detection and expanded mobile weather monitoring capabilities help turf and athletic facility professionals and sports officials monitor developing weather conditions in specific locations, helping make important decisions for planning, preparing and mitigating severe weather.
New enhancements to Lightning Manager help deliver lightning information to turf professionals to give them a more concise picture of anticipated lightning activity for their area to ensure fan and player safety. Upgraded animated lightning strikes are paired with real-time local radar to clearly indicate where severe storms are moving and whether lightning is intensifying or subsiding. MxVision WeatherSentry Mobile users will discover additional radar zoom levels and increased panning functionality to clearly see where rain, ice and snow are falling and storm directions. The set up process for receiving mobile weather alerts also has been simplified. Users select their wireless provider and enter their cell phone number to begin to receive alerts on their phone.
Improved “portable” weather easily provides a clear picture of radar, forecast and lightning information needed to make informed decisions on the go. The new upgrades add to the collective power of MxVision WeatherSentry Turf Edition helping public safety professionals with increased warning time and faster response.
MxVision WeatherSentry Turf Edition provides weather information for today’s challenges either by high-speed Internet, cell phone or satellite delivery. The system’s storm-tracking function indicates the location of severe weather, it’s direction in the next 30 minutes and what time it will reach a particular area of interest, including details on the specific attributes of a particular cell – for example, hail or large tornadoes. PrecipTimer indicates when light, moderate or heavy rain, ice or snow will start and stop. Alarms can be set for multiple locations providing advanced notice before storms strike. Lightning Manager monitors lightning strikes as they approach. An “all clear” notification also can be set up to indicate when danger has passed and work or play can resume. Alert Manager sends notifications when weather changes such as temperature, wind and other parameters including National Weather Service watches, warnings and advisories occur in a particular area.
Additionally, the professional package provides subscribers the ability to ask weather questions directly to an experienced meteorologist specializing in the turf and sports sector. The meteorologists can be accessed around the clock to help turf and sports professionals make decisions based on personalized answers from professional forecasters.
In 2008, a 12-month, third-party study by ForecastWatch.com found DTN/Meteorlogix precipitation forecasts outperformed all others in the industry – and DTN/Meteorlogix had 40 percent greater accuracy than those of the National Weather Service.
