The Ontario Weather Service story. From Past, Present, and Future. How one private site formed, and how it plans to help Southern California.

With millions of people in Southern California, is one weather authority enough? Private forecasts from OWS have proven to save lives and will continue to do so, many times often ahead of the NWS.

Kevin Martin - Owner of OWSweather.com.

Corona, California ( OWS ) January 17, 2008 - - Are current NWS forecasts enough to cover the entire population of Southern California is the question sought. Can private forecasters forecast just as good or better than the ones we seek today known as the National Weather Service? One man, with a disorder claims to be able to do just that. A disorder that has enabled him to latch onto mother nature, and forecast without needing a degree.

Kevin Martin, 23, has been forecasting the weather for since grade school. It all started when he was very young. Seeing patterns in brick walls wasn't strange to him, however to others it was. Many of the students in grade school laughed at him, making school a mess for him. His grades were top notch until 4th grade when it all started. Kevin was able to see patterns and understand complex number items.

After 6th grade, people continued making fun of him. It was then that he decided to use his brain into the scientific world for advancement. Kevin studied astronomy first, but realized nothing was fun about it. The stars wouldn't change for years, and there wasn't much of a challenge to it. He memorized all the constellations and star names, including where all the deep sky objects were within a year. Kevin worked for free at La Sierra University Observatory with owner Reggie Ackerman. He helped college students there with the telescopes, and provided answers to their homework on astronomy.

In 8th grade, Kevin decided to move on with his interest as astronomy was too easy. The next thing of interest was the weather. Kevin loved to watch thunderstorms, and take walks at night with the Santa Ana Winds. Kevin begged his mother to take him storm chasing during the monsoonal season of the Southwestern United States, which is mainly during the Summer. His mother agreed, and they went chasing storms. They caught 6 storms in one day from Big Bear Lake, to the High Desert.

When Kevin got his license, he decided to advance on his own in Meteorology. Kevin noticed that the National Weather Service forecasts for Santa Ana Winds were not to expectations, so he set out to develop a math formula for forecasting these winds. He went from mountain pass to mountain pass measuring the areas of hardest hit. Over 300 different locations were measured across Southern California from weakest to strongest hit areas during the Santa Ana Winds. Armed with 300 different locations, the formula began to develop. The formula is used today in what the public, including fire officials state as, "The most accurate Santa Ana Wind forecasts I have ever seen."

WIth gaining knowledge about the weather, Kevin decided to put up an email service for private forecasting for anyone interested. He named it the Ontario Weather Service. Ontario is the closest major area he lived near. The formula would still be under test stages when he forecasted for the email service, however a few people got the word on time. This would be the start of what would later be known as the Ontario Weather Service forecast website in Southern California.

Kevin met Joshua Young during the Summer of 2002 over a Yahoo group Joshua had started about the Southwestern Monsoon. Joshua Young would become an important part of the Ontario Weather Service in the future.
Joshua Young got along with Kevin because both had similarities. Joshua Young had Asperger's Syndrome, and had a keen interest to weather.

During the Winter of 2002, Kevin signed up for a free website service from freeservers. This was the first website outline of the OWS. It concentrated on the Inland Empire, Orange County, and Los Angeles. The site would grow over the years to cover all of Southern California.

Today, the Ontario Weather Service covers the most populated areas of California. The service handles weather watches from wind, snow, rain, thunderstorms, marine, aviation, and fire. A completely free public friendly site with a live chatroom, message board, and fast responses. The site is hosted under Iron Mountain Web Hosting. Iron Mountain staff uses the OWS forecasts for their routines as well. Years of research has been put into the OWS outline. About 45,000 hours have been put into studying the areas from Kevin Martin.

Kevin is seeing a doctor at West Clinic, in Riverside County. This doctor is diagnosing Kevin with several disorders in which is the reason for why he is fixated onto weather forecasting. From OCD to Bi-Polar, and a few others which will be named in further releases of Kevin's condition. The doctor claims Kevin as a unique person in tune to the weather. He doesn't just forecast it. He breaches the boundary of it. His conditions is similar to Einstein's.

OWS version 7.0 is now out, and ready to rock. The new site design surpasses the much older design by many, with individual forecast centers for the Southern California area. Also, the Tornado Prediction Center from the OWS has been opened, and is in full swing daily. The center that is not updated daily is the contrail report. We must name it contrail, but others know what they are called. We must do this because of an email from a top offical in the air force to do so. Long story, but to make it short, it forecasts these trails with information given to us from outside sources I cannot speak of right now. I am only helping people out.

The future of OWS is to gain public, and media approval further than what it has. A few media outlets trust OWS forecasts. OWS would like to gain this trust, and have the media know that forecasts from the OWS are real, credited, and worked hard on to provide the very best safety to public life and property. The goal is to prove that a degree does not mean someone is smarter, nor more credible than the other. OWS is real, and the goals are real. Help us give these people another true forecast service.

Ontario Weather Service team

Contact information to OWS

Kevin Douglas Martin , Meteorologist and Researcher
Ontario Weather Service
1-951-893-8198
http://www.owsweather.com