About Texas A&M Weather Broadcasting and the KAMU Weekday Forecasts
KAMU began it's association with Texas A&M Weather Broadcasting in the fall of 2004, with full operations beginning in 2006. The goal was and is to provide Texas A&M meteorology students with essential forecasting experience and actual on-air time. In this way, students gain useful practice for future careers in the National Weather Service and in meteorology broadcasting.
Texas A&M Weather Broadcasting students typically formulate and deliver the KAMU Weekday Forecasts when classes are in full swing. Whenever their forecasts are not available, the forecast content is obtained from commercial sources and delivered by full-time KAMU-FM staff members or part-time KAMU-FM student workers.
About This Page
Since these forecasts are delivered only on weekday mornings and afternoons, we made sure that the time and date is always prominently displayed on the page, along with the age of the forecast (i.e. how many hours old it is). And for accuracy purposes, it should be noted that the posted times and dates of the latest forecasts are derived from the time/date stamp placed on the MP3 files that our FM staff save to our web server, and should vary slightly from the times the forecasts are acutally delivered on the air.
For Flash Player Users:
The primary player on this page is a Flash player, which we provide and which should work for most visitors. The Flash software that is needed to accomodate the player is estimated to be on 80 to 90 percent of visitors' computers. (But, if you believe that you have the necessary Flash software on your computer/phone/other-device and are still experiencing trouble with our player, we’d appreciate you letting us know.)
This page is designed to use our Flash player to automatically start playing the latest forecast (for those who have Flash installed) if the forecast is less than 6 hours old. If the latest forecast is over 6 hours old, visitors are still able to listen to the forecast --- you just need to click on the play button or “Play” text-link to start the audio forecast.
For MP3 Player Users:
If you need or prefer to use your own default MP3 player instead of our Flash player, our page also provides you with a “Use Your Default MP3 Player Instead” link. Whenever this link is clicked, our web server will serve up a standard MP3 file in the standard manner to the MP3 player on your computer (or phone or other device) that is set up as your "default" MP3 player.
Please note that the manner in which your default MP3 player responds to our MP3 file depends entirely on your software installation and setup, and is completely beyond our control. We hope that providing this information will help you expedite any troubleshooting process you might need and choose to undertake for your MP3 player.
