Welcome to this new home of the SAWDOS. The SA Weather and Disaster Information Service (SAWDIS) has changed it's name to the SA Weather and Disaster Observation Service (SAWDOS) as of the 1 January 2012. The new blog site is far from complete and you might think that really not much has changed. I am still working feverishly to install new automated features to this site. This will not only lighten my work load but will bring you near real time information with the click of a button.
The following new features are currently available to our users:
1. Near Real Time updates from the RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service: The Hungarian National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE) operates an Emergency and Disaster Information Service (EDIS) to monitor and document all the events on the Earth which may cause disaster or emergency. The EDIS website provides useful information regarding world wide emergency situations and their prevention.
RSOE EDIS information available HERE and can be accessed by clicking on the yellow SAWDOS pages bar just under the main SAWDOS heading.
2. USGS Earthquake Monitor: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards. This page shows a world global map with earthquakes greater that 5 on the Richter-scale. Earthquakes are shown as a star on a global map. Further Information can be obtained by clicking on the magnitude/place heading.
The USGS Earthquake Monitor available HERE and can be accessed by clicking on the yellow SAWDOS pages index bar just under the main SAWDOS heading.
3. SA Private WX Stations: Weather station owners make their weather station data available to the SAWDOS and the general public. If you own a weather station and would like to add your weather station to the SAWDOS private weather station list, just send an email to the SAWDOS with the link where the data is available. Click HERE to send an email to the SAWDOS.
Readers can access real time weather station information HERE and can be accessed by clicking on the yellow SAWDOS pages bar just under the main SAWDOS heading.
4. SAWDOS1 Twitter - SAWDIS Real-Time Weather and Disaster Information: The SAWDOS1 Twitter page are used as an early warning system to keep readers informed of the latest weather and disaster events unfolding around the world. Reports received from SAWDOS Weather and Disaster Observers and the general public are retweeted by the SAWDOS. The SAWDOS Twitter account bring you breaking news, severe weather observations, alerts and warnings in near real time as it unfolds. Readers are invited to follow the SAWDOS1 on Twitter.
THIS IS WHERE YOU READ BREAKING NEWS ABOUT SEVERE WEATHER AND DISASTERS, A MUST HAVE!!
Readers can view real time SAWDOS Twitter information HERE and HERE and can be accessed by clicking on the yellow SAWDOS pages bar just under the main SAWDOS heading.
I will inform our readers of any new features that will be added as an when they are installed.
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