CURRENT READINGS · FLAGS
Unusual readings
Flags when a reading is well above its own normal, preferably confirmed by a second source. These are not official warnings.
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FIELD NOTES / Brevard Area Score
Brevard Area Score
One 0 to 10 number for how active things are around Brevard County, FL, from our own sensors and official weather and space feeds. Updated 4 times a day.
New The Area Score is still collecting data. It’ll be much more accurate after a few days of readings, and it’ll keep getting more dialed in over the coming months and years.
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Brevard Area Score
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Reading the latest feeds.
Not an official warning or index. For warnings, follow the National Weather Service. Earthquakes: USGS. Space weather: NOAA.
CURRENT READINGS
What’s influencing it now
Updated every minute and scored 0 to 10, highest first. Highlighted tiles are driving the score. The official score above updates only 4 times a day.
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Not reporting
Left out of the score until fresh data returns.
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LAST 7 DAYS
Daily highs (official scores)
Days with no official score yet are rebuilt from saved daily records (NWS alerts, lightning, wind gusts and launches) and marked “partial”.
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How the Brevard Area Score works
This is The Space Coast Wire’s own composite, not an official index. It puts readings we already receive on one 0 to 10 scale so you can see at a glance whether anything is going on. The official sources are the National Weather Service (weather warnings), the USGS (earthquakes) and NOAA (space weather and tides).
1. Each reading gets a 0–10 sub-score
Our own sensors are scored against their own normal background (the SCW Shake, Boom and Magnetic Scales). Everything else uses published thresholds, such as NWS heat-index categories, EPA air-quality categories, NWS alert severity, NOAA Kp storm levels and the NWS rip current risk.
2. The highest one sets the score
The Area Score is the highest sub-score, so one serious signal is never averaged away. It goes up 1 when two or more other readings are at 3 or more, and up 2 when four or more are.
3. Published 4 times a day
The official score is locked at 12 AM, 6 AM, 12 PM and 6 PM Eastern from the composite at that minute, and held until the next update. If the readings aren’t available at an update time, that update is skipped; nothing is filled in. Current readings below still update every minute.
4. Old data is left out
Each feed has a freshness limit. A missing or stale feed shows “Not reporting” and is left out. Nothing is estimated or filled in.
How each reading is scored
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What we leave out, and why
Sky brightness: it follows the Moon and clouds, so a high or low reading isn’t a sign of trouble.
Radiation counter: there isn’t enough saved history yet for a fair normal level, and there’s no simple official threshold for a home counter.
Radio meteor echoes: possible meteor echoes, not a condition on the ground.
Tropical outlook: any tropical watch or warning for Brevard already arrives through NWS alerts, which are included.
Unusual-reading flags
A flag appears when one of our SCW scales reaches level 4 (about 8 times its normal background), when another reading is 3 or more levels above its own typical value over the past week, or when two or more sensors jump 2 or more levels in the same minute. We prefer flags that another source confirms, such as ground motion together with infrasound, lightning or a launch. A ground-motion reading that nothing else confirms is shown only as “Local ground motion”, with no cause given. Flags help spot something worth a look. They are not official warnings.
The Space Coast Wire / Station Lab · Brevard Area Score
Sources: our own sensors and weather station in Brevard County, FL, plus the National Weather Service, NOAA and the published launch schedule. No station code, precise location, serial number or private network details are published. Times shown in Eastern Time.