For two years or so Blaze and Alan Youngblood provided weather reports on Ocala.com each weekday morning. They have been off for while now but still wanted to bring the hyper-local weather to our readers. Since Blaze doesn’t have thumbs, Alan has helped her with this page.
The data shown on Blaze’s pasture page is the weather from her pasture in Southwest Marion County. It’s updated throughout the day.
They will have weather stories and weather observations in the blog section. As storm season approaches, they will have spaghetti maps and other critical storm info.
Questions? They have answers.
Q: Who the heck is Blaze? What makes her a weather horse?
A: Blaze, whose real name is Nobleza, is a Canadian Peruvian Paso filly who immigrated to the United States in 2003 from Canada (the wall isn’t very high on the Canadian Border). She knows her pasture by this point and can tell what’s coming. Plus the internet and two sets of weather instruments don’t hurt either.
Q: What equipment does she use?
A: Most recently she installed a Netatmo weather station and gets her data from that. Her forecast comes from the National Weather Service.
Q: Why is your data always wrong? Your equipment must be crummy or broken. It never agrees with what I see on TV. I always have more (or less) rain at my house than Bblaze shows on her site.
A: Blaze’s equipment is fine. The answer is that this is Florida. The rain, no matter what the TV radar shows, can vary greatly especially in the Summer. If you don’t live next door to Blaze, your totals are almost guaranteed to be different. Florida just works that way.