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
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