Come on feel the weather at Pierce

(This isn't the Pierce weather station, but one on Santa Cruz Island. Photo courtesy Steve Woodruff, whose portrait appears below)

Remember all the trouble with the Pierce College weather station? Seems the college's new Internet firewall was keeping the data from getting out:

A computer glitch has crippled the 57-year-old Pierce College weather station for weeks, forcing fans around the world to forgo their Woodland Hills weather fix.

"We're under the weather here, for sure," said Steve Woodruff, a Van Nuys Airport weather station supervisor who oversees the Pierce College Station for the National Weather Service. "It's generating hundreds of e-mails a day from all over the world."

On Oct. 2, a computer-security firewall intended to thwart Internet hackers cut the station's online connection to its popular weather Web site.

According to the Los Angeles Pierce College Weather Station Web site and weather guru Woodruff, all is about to be well once again:

The Internet connection to the weather station has been fixed! Our techs have remedied the problem. Today at 4pm I will be out to the station to reset the data software.

A huge thanks goes out to our computer techs for a job well done!

Data will be back within 24-hours of 4pm PST 10-18-06.