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This page is provided to allow you access the wealth of weather information on the local Western Pennsylvania area, and other areas available on the Internet.

For a limited replacement of this weather souce try here.
To select specific weather products of interest, click on the links below to get current weather data (text only) from the Internet Weather Information Network (IWIN).

Current Pittsburgh, PA Weather Data:

Current Conditions

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Check your local WPXI-TV WeatherNet site: Current Weather @ N. Allegheny HS
Carnegie Science Center

Hopefully more of the 28 sites WPXI has scacttered around the area will become available online.

To get current Pittsburgh weather conditions, along with an 5 day extended forecast with nice animated icons, check here.

Also includes information from the "Old Farmers Almanac", along with NJ Beach info, & links to National Satellite & radar images.

National Weather Service Radio (NOAA)

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The National Weather Service (NWS) maintains a network of VHF radio sites which broadcast current weather information, forecasts, warnings/wathces, & climatic data 24 hours a day.

In the western Pennsylvania area these sites are:

162.550 KIH35 @ WQED-TV Tower Pittsburgh (Oakland)
162.525 WWF35 @ WTRF-TV Tower Bridgeport, OH
162.425 WWG53 @ Parker, PA Butler County

Alert Test Performed: WED 1115/WEEKLY

EAS/SAME Test Schedule here

During watches/warnings & other severe weather the NWS will broadcast a special tone to activate special weather alert receivers. These radios give a visual and/or audible alarm to indicate an emergency.

The NWS is in the process of upgrading the Weather Alert Radio system to a new digital alert format (WRSAME) which will allow for only effected areas alert receivers to be activated versus the current all or none approach.

WR-SAME is AVAILABLE in the Pittsburgh area servered by all NWS radio sites fed from the PIT forecast office. You will need a WR-SAME radio receiver to decode these alerts. Radio Shack has introduced just such a radio, Model #120-0249 for $80.

Information on how the WR-SAME system operates can be found on the WR-SAME Hompage. This page also provides access to FIPS/SAME codes for the entire US. It also lists which transmitter is sending SAME codes for your area.

You will also need a SAME/FIPS code to select the area to be alerted for alarms.

The table below summarizes the FIPS/SAME codes for the Western PA Area:

NOAA NWS FIPS/SAME Codes
PennsylvaniaOhioWest Virginia
CountyFIPS CodeCountyFIPS CodeCountyFIPS Code
Allegheny County42003Athens County39009Brooke County54009
Armstrong County42005Belmont County39013Hancock County54029
Beaver County42007Columbiana County39029Marshall County54051
Butler County42009Gallia County39053Monongalia County54061
Fayette County42051Jackson County39079Ohio County54069
Greene County42059Jefferson County39081Tennessee
Indiana County42063Lawrence County39087Knox County47093
Lawrence County42073Scioto County39145Sevier County47155
Washington County42125Vinton County39163
Westmoreland County42129

A good weather alert radio is a must! Sources of these include Radio Shack, mail order from some of the suppliers on the Scanner Links Page for Midland & Maxon, or check out Thunder Eagle's Weather Radio. They offer some of the most advanced weather alert radios on the market today.

Weather Links

National Weather Service
Internet Weather Information (IWIN) Server
NetCast Weather Data Server
National SkyWarn Service
NWS - Weather Radio Sites
Locutus WetSock - Weather info in your Win'95 System Tray. Audible alarms for warnings!
IGS WinWeather - Display weather data for selcted cites.
WeatherVane- Get local wx conditions & forecast via Internet.
Weather Update - Get full weather information for your area & state via Internet
SkyWalker Data - Receive the NWS Weather wire on your computer via satellite
AvengerAvenger - Monitor WX, Sports, Email & more and be paged!

I am always interested in other "cool" weather sites & software. I am currently seeking software which operates similar to WetSock/WinWeather/Avenger which will get current wether data on a regular basis via IWIN and forward this to an alpha numeric pager. Software must pass current weather AND all warnings/watches to the pager, not weather or warnings. Know of software which can do this? Email me, please, I will gladly provide a link to your page here.

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