![]() Daily and monthly reports are saved as PDF's to disk, email option available. Comprehensive reports - recent, daily, monthly, annual. Scrollable and synchronised graphs/daily data/satellite imagery with direct access to any date in your database. In addition WeatherCat can integrate with other systems via its AppleScript interface. WeatherCat monitors the weather and can run a set of pre-defined and user programmed alerts that can trigger emails and/or run scripts should an alert trigger for example to switch on your sprinklers, heating or cooling. upload to a web-server for your own web-based applications. ![]() WeatherCat can also send your weather data to the Weather Underground, the Citizens Weather Observer Program and provides close to real time Custom C.G.I. ![]() In addition, WeatherCat can generate and upload simple web pages which offer quick 'canned' solution to get your weather data on-line as quickly as possible, as well as template driven 'custom' web pages that can contain current conditions, graphs, gauges, statistics, webcam images and time-lapse movies these web pages can be uploaded to your server by WeatherCat for display via a web browser anywhere in the world. It’s just life as normal with a human, who just happens to tell people about the weather.WeatherCat is designed to work with hardware-based weather stations (Davis Vantage, Vue, Monitors/Wizards, LaCrosse WS23xx and Oregon Scientific WMR 928/968).Īs data is gathered and stored in its database, WeatherCat allows you to view weather statistics such as the lowest temperature, or the highest wind speed over any time period stored in the database. As long as she gets plenty of treats and pets, the attention isn’t that big of a deal. “We’re just so humbled and flattered by all of this.”įor Betty, fame hasn’t really caught up with her. “If Betty can be a positive influence and make people happy, I want to support them and give people want they want,” Jeff says. He believes Betty is a welcome distraction to all the negative news going on in the world. Jeff and his family are in disbelief over the worldwide appreciation of their cat. The weather personality says he’s not really sure. Many fans wonder if the internet superstar is a Norwegian Forest Cat or a Maine Coon. He’s shown Betty drinking water out of his glass, Betty getting bribed with tuna and Betty licking ice directly out of his glass. Jeff has started doing Facebook Lives featuring Betty, and he’s getting thousands of views and questions from Betty fans all over the world. “I’m not sure how Betty will do if I take her outside of the house,” he says. The other issue is what will happen once the coronavirus pandemic passes and Jeff returns to the television studio to do his forecasts. I know right now people are really looking at her rather than paying attention to the weather.” “If there’s a tornadoĪnd emergency information people need to know, I’ll probably have to put Betty in the basement so she isn’t a distraction. “She knows something is up when I turn on the lights.” But Jeff does wonder how he will keep Betty’s fans happy and balance the need to get important weather news out to Evansville area viewers. Since he started delivering his weather forecasts from home, Betty’s always there. Everything is on her own terms.” Photo: Natalie Lyons Betty’s future Betty’s like a lot of cats, very loyal and very independent. ![]() “She’s such a good cat and a great companion,” Jeff says. Jeff got her spayed immediately, and their veterinarian believes she was about 2 years old when she ended up at their front door. We named her Betty, in honor of my Aunt Betty, who loved cats.” Within days that cat moved into the house and within a few weeks she was sleeping on my chest. We fed her and decided she could live on our screened porch. “One day Betty showed up at our house meowing and hungry. “We had a cat named Merv who had died, and at the time my 10-year-old daughter, Natalie, was begging for a cat,” he says. “Viewers want to see her more, so I put up a card table in front of the green screen, put a cardboard box on top of it and covered the box with a blanket so Betty could sit higher.” Betty’s beginnings “Each night we try to find a way to work her way into the forecasts,” he says. She’s now officially part of the station’s weather team and was granted her very own “lower third graphic” on all of Jeff’s reports. Requests from around the world started pouring in. “My nephew told me Betty was on Reddit,” Jeff says. Within three days the video had 100,000 views. Jeff put the video of that forecast on his Facebook page, and it took off. “But I did it anyway.” That night he did the weather with Betty at his side and ended the segment with her cradled in his arms. “As a meteorologist, you want a certain amount of credibility, you’re the station’s scientist, so I wasn’t so sure about it,” Jeff says.
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