November 29, 1996 UK COLLEGE OF AG WEATHER CENTER NAMED TOP WEB SITE BY PC COMPUTING MAGAZINE University of Kentucky's Ag Weather Center's web site has been named as one of the top web sites in the world by PC Computing Magazine. The web site was selected as one of the best educational resources on the world wide web. The College of Agriculture's Web site receives 130,000 to 150,000 "hits" -- people seeking information from it -- each month, said Tom Priddy, agricultural meteorologist with the University of Kentucky. The web site was in good company on the PC Computing list. Others included American University of Paris, Stanford University and the Institute of Geology and Paleontology of Stuttgart. According to Priddy, the UK's ag weather web site provides a wide array of Kentucky, national and international weather information. "What makes our site different is that we target comprehensive, real-time weather and climate information at the county level," Priddy said. The UK Ag Weather Center web site provides more than 60 maps daily during the growing season about Kentucky's rainfall and departure-from-normal, state-wide temperature deviations. In addition, it provides agriculturally related weather models generated from a geographical information system. Earlier this year, the Ag Weather Center's web site was designated a "4 Star" internet web site by the McKinley Editorial Group. The Ag Weather Center's web site's address is: www.ca.uky.edu/agcollege/agweather/ Writer: Randy Weckman Source: Tom Priddy (606) 257-3937 (606) 257-3000