3 reasons:

1. Many people don't know when the new recon will come out and would otherwise miss the recon data.

2. The recon link on the site only includes the most recent recon. Same with the NHC and the Ohio State locations. Historical data is not kept, so if you want to see what changed in the last hour and a half, you need to have written it down somewhere.

3. Recon is important to understanding the storm.

If the mods didn't want the data posted, I'm sure they would have asked me and the others that post it before now. Since I've been coming here (2 years now), every major storm people post Recon. I'm not the only person, I just happen to be getting to it faster than the others for this storm.

As for the PM, for some reason the flashing "you have new mail" image never appeared. Not sure why. I had three unread messages from last night.