GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. — Video shows a mail carrier tossing packages in a local driveway.
A not-so-special delivery has one weather buff hot under the collar.
Paul Nowotny’s surveillance cameras caught the mail carrier in a van throwing packages in his Green Cove Springs driveway, and you can see this wasn’t a gentle toss.
“She’s a baseball player. She’s throwing the packages across the yard,” he said.
In one of those boxes, Nowotny said there was some very important equipment.
“It was a receiving unit and monitor for my weather station,” said Nowotny.
He called himself a weather nerd.
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“I report on Weather Underground so everyone knows what’s happening in Green Cove Springs,” he said.
His weather station, costing more than $1000, was inspired by our own chief meteorologist, Mike Buresh.
“I care about the weather. I met Mike many years ago. He was kind of an influence for me on setting up the station in the first place,” he said.
Buresh said these instruments can give critical weather information that is sometimes used by the First Alert Weather team.
“The smaller ones can kind of fill in that puzzle for us on where the heaviest and biggest storms are occurring, the rainfall amounts, how hot the temperatures are and have been,” said Buresh.
Nowotny said this is about more than money.
“Wouldn’t matter if it was $5 or 5,000, I don’t want you to throw it at me,” he said.
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