Just for fun, I am going to build some "weather monitoring stations" around the map on our new server and use Chisel and Bits to make some old style radar dishes to try and mimic real weather service stations. As I'm writing this post, one of my moderators is pitching a similar idea so I'll list both below and you can see if either of them is feasible or not.

My idea - It would be cool (if it's even possible) to have an advanced or long range version of the weather radar that could see out much further to put inside these monitoring stations. This is just my ideas, but I'm picturing basically a multiblock type screen that could be built as a vertical wall (something like a 5x5 wall panel) that would show a large area and storms would be indicated by simple icons (R=Rain storm, WS=Water spout, F0=F0 Tornado, etc...) rather than the more complex images used on the normal weather radar block.

My Moderators idea - They are suggesting the possibility of remote radar points that would send back to a screen. Basically, the monitor station would have multiple 3x3 screens on the wall (the vertical screen idea is key here as that is how they are IRL so it would be cool if even the normal Weather Radar that is included in the mod now could be rotated to be placed vertically) and each 3x3 screen would need a Weather Radar Transmitter block placed out in the world to send radar data back to the monitoring station. Obviously if the radar transmitter was out in the middle of nowhere with nobody around it, either we would have to chunkload the chunk the radar is in, or the screen inside the building would simply display a message stating signal lost. Then if a player enters the area/town where the radar transmitter is, the screen could show the radar image. If a storm destroys the radar, it would be cool if it said something like "transmitter destroyed". (honestly, although this was my moderators idea, I kind of like this one better, but I am completely open to either).

We have players teaming up to do a couple town builds on the server. One of these towns is about 600 blocks from our spawn town, and the other is not too far from that. It would be fun if we can build a weather monitor point with an advanced radar like that so someone could staff the radar station and monitor for storms. I told everyone doing towns that they should install the automatic sirens but I also plan to install manual sirens connected to wireless redstone linked back to the stations so whoever is staffing them can sound the sirens for the appropriate area by hand.

I fully understand if this idea is not feasible or more than you are interested in taking on but I appreciate your time in reading all this and giving the idea some consideration.

Thanks again and keep up the great work!!