I surely don't know about your state, but in Indiana summers, five miles or less can make the difference between No rain and 1" in one hour. So to me, 40 mi is too far away to make weather assumptions based on what you experienced.
Yes, I understand that. Please folks, give me a little credit. I live on a ridge that looks out to the north. On a good day with binoculars, I can see the wind farm that is about 5 miles sw of the uplink center. However, I am not looking at my weather, or the clouds above me. I am looking at the clouds to the north of me when I make these reports. Since the uplink center is at approx 41 deg N lat, that says that the dishes are pointing south at a 45deg angle. If I am looking North at a 30-45 degree angle, I can clearly see the cloud cover that would affect the uplink.
My point is that several of the times that DISH has recently blamed outages on heavy thunderstorms, the sky has been clear or lightly overcast. Also, I note that posts 122, 124, 131 and 134 all reported outages well before the person who quoted weather underground showed me the thunderstorms in Cheyenne at 9:30 PM.
I need to apologize to Scott, as he said "last night's outage". I read that this morning, and didn't notice he had posted it early yesterday evening. Therefore, I was reporting on a different day.
