Martin County Skywarn

03/05/2026

Siren Test Thursday, March 5
The Martin County Emergency Management Agency, St. Lucie County Public Safety Department and Florida Power & Light will conduct a quarterly testing of the outdoor warning sirens for the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant at noon Thursday, March 5.

The test will involve a one-minute sounding of all 91 sirens within the 10-mile St. Lucie plant emergency planning zone. Before and after the sirens sound, a message will be broadcast on the sirens' public address system stating, "This is only a test."

The siren system is tested quarterly to improve public awareness of its function and ensure operability.

02/18/2026

‼️ Don’t forget - you can buy raffle tickets 🎟️ at any time before the Stuart Hamfest by going to our website at https://www.mcaraweb.com

We have GREAT prizes this year and you don’t need to be present to win! So make sure you buy early so you don’t forget! 📻

02/02/2026

Beginning Monday February 2, 2026, the FP&L Siren Team will conduct maintenance on the 91 sirens within the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). Each siren will be tested individually and will include:

• A visual inspection
• A public address announcement stating, “This is a test”
• A 20-second air horn activation
• A concluding announcement stating, “This was only a test”

This activity will take place weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., continuing through Friday February 6, 2026.

An Alert St. Lucie notification has also been scheduled to inform the public who are subscribed to receive alerts. This notification will be sent Sunday February 1, 2026 beginning at 2:00 p.m.

To learn more about Public Safety and to sign up for alerts, visit www.ReadyStLucie.org

12/21/2025

Welcome to our Florida Winter. 😎Happy Holidays.

❄️ WINTER SOLSTICE IS TOMORROW — Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Winter Solstice occurs Sunday morning, at 10:03 AM ET (9:03 AM CT | 8:03 AM MT | 7:03 AM PT).

This will be the day we get the least amount of daylight all year and the longest night. The Sun takes its lowest path across the sky — and then after this, our daylight slowly starts coming back starting Monday!

So yes… winter is just getting started,
but the days officially stop getting shorter. 🌤️

12/20/2025

☄️ Before we wrap up the year, the night sky has one last gift for us. The Ursid Meteor Shower is peaking, and for the first time in years, the conditions are nearly perfect.

Here is your observing guide for the 2025 Ursids:

🗓️ When to Watch: The peak activity occurs on the night of December 21–22 and the early morning of December 23.

🌑 Moon Situation: Excellent news! With the New Moon having just passed on December 20, the sky will be pitch black. A thin crescent moon will set early in the evening, leaving the entire night dark for meteor hunting.

🌍 Visibility: This is strictly a Northern Hemisphere show. The radiant is near the celestial north pole, meaning it doesn't rise for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere.

🔭 What to Expect: The Ursids are a low-key shower, producing up to 10 meteors per hour. However, they are known for occasional outbursts, and with zero moonlight interference, you might catch faint meteors usually hidden by glare.

How to View:

🧥Bundle up—it is the Winter Solstice, the longest (and often coldest) night of the year!
🌌 Look North toward the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor). The meteors radiate from near the star Kochab.
👀 Give your eyes 20 minutes to adjust to the darkness.

Clear skies to all for the last show of the year! 🔭🌌

12/09/2025

12/05/2025

Bravo. 🇺🇸

12/03/2025

Saturday December 6th - MCARA is doing a special event station K4V at the Road to Victory Military Museum! Please join us to learn more about amateur radio, check out the free museum & to honor the remembrance of Pearl Harbor.

11/14/2025

Help support our local area clubs and consider attending the Ft Pierce Hamfest on Saturday, December 13th.

10/28/2025

Far beyond the planets, more than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1 still sails through the cosmic dark - a lone messenger from 1977.
Launched when disco ruled the radio, it carries less memory than a single smartphone photo, stores data on an 8-track tape system, and runs on FORTRAN code written before most of today’s engineers were born.
Its endurance comes from tough, radiation-hardened parts, a minimalist design with fewer failure points, and redundant systems ready to take over when one falters.
The/spacecraft also holds the famous Golden Record a time capsule of Earth’s music, greetings, and sounas 77 neant for any distant civilization that miaht find it. I Keeping it alive isn’t easy: every signal takes 22 hours to arrive, so engineers must solve problems without instant feedback, often referencing 50-year-old blueprints and hand-drawn schematics.
Voyager 1 isn’t just a machine it’s a reminder of what happens when we build for durability, think creatively, and dream beyond our own lifetimes.
It’s our postcard to the universe, still in delivery.

09/04/2025

Siren Test Thursday, September 4
The Martin County Emergency Management Agency, St. Lucie County Public Safety Department and Florida Power & Light will conduct a quarterly testing of the outdoor warning sirens for the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant at noon Thursday, September 4.

The test will involve a one-minute sounding of all 91 sirens within the 10-mile St. Lucie plant emergency planning zone. Before and after the sirens sound, a message will be broadcast on the sirens' public address system stating, "This is only a test."

The siren system is tested quarterly to improve public awareness of its function and ensure operability.

08/27/2025

Please share this new brochure with you friends and neighbors. If you have a bulletinboard in your community clubhouse this is a goodplace to leave a few copies. Stay safe!