ASHEVILLE, N.C. — People who want to visit the Blue Ridge Parkway in the winter will be able to check weather forecasts made specifically for the road.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported (http://avlne.ws/1hglvI1) the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation worked with the parkway and two other groups to set up BRPweather.com and BRPwebcams.org. They hope visitors will use the sites so they avoid being stopped by gates and signs reading “parkway closed for winter weather.”
“Weather along the parkway is a significant issue — for the visitor experience and also visitor safety,” said Carolyn Ward, CEO of the foundation, the parkway’s fundraising nonprofit. “We realized if we could install cameras and weather stations up and down the entire length of the parkway, we could create a fantastic weather tool to look at weather trends, get fantastic climate date, amazing opportunities for visitors and the traveling public, and a management tool so managers could see weather getting bad on a particular ridge and close the parkway in a much more proactive way for visitors.”
She began working on the websites about two years ago with Ray Russell, CEO of Raysweather.com and a
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