I am a weather junkie. I just can’t get enough weather data. Those who know me know that I can name most of the weather network’s personalities and that I know of and announce issued weather warnings before the radio stations do. Not only do I get off on the data, I thoroughly enjoy extreme weather in person. Thunderstorms, blizzards, tropical storms, I love them all.
As thunderstorm season is rolling around I thought I should point you to my two favorite weather pages on the net:
- Real time lighting detector (delayed 2 hours)
- Canadian Radar (red=awesome)
Comments
Craig Willson - June 25, 2003 7:47 am
http://humblebub.islandmusings.net/cgi-bin/metar40/metar.pl?icao=cyyg&lang=en&cache=on&template=metar_example9b.html
(replace the icao code with your location of choice.)
Rob MacD - June 25, 2003 11:12 am
"weather network personalities"...sounds oxymoronic to me.
Dan James - June 25, 2003 11:19 am
I'll give you that Rob. Some of the people on the network are a little bland. There are others though who obviously are excited about weather. Chris StClair would be the most energetic.
nathan - June 25, 2003 12:19 pm
Here's the perfect destination for you Dan: Pacific island of Niue. Harsh weather and complete WIFI coverage.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/31411.html
Keir - June 26, 2003 6:07 am
Dan, do you use any weather feeds? I have had a London UK weather.com feed on our work intranet for about two years and in a survey I did about one year ago it proved to be one of the most popular features of our intranet, admittedly at the time the intranet was still in its infancy.
However today I received a deactivation notice due to changes in the service. Upon re-registering as requested I was told to visit weather.co.uk to register for the UK service. Sadly they do not seem to offer the "weather on your site" feature. Do you have any viable alternatives?
Dan James - June 26, 2003 9:33 am
Keir, no I don't use a weather feed. We used to have something similar on our intranet here at work that stripped out weather data from the local news' weather page. It was crude but it worked. I now use a folder of weather links in Firebird that I open in tabs every couple of hours. Craig, were are you getting your data from?
Peter Rukavina - June 26, 2003 10:05 am
<P>Under the umbrella of my development work with The Old Farmer's Almanac, we're working on a project to make customized weather available via RSS. Stay tuned. You'll also be able to get Advice of the Day, Puzzle of the Day and Question of the Day.</P>
<P>Right now, perhaps the most intriguing part of Almanac.com, besides the long-range weather forecasts, is our database of weather history: you can find out what the weather was for any date back to 1994 for over 8,000 locations in North America. Ths feature uses freely-available NOAA data, and puts a friendly wrapper around it. It's very popular.</P>
Dan James - June 26, 2003 10:12 am
Stevie G pointed me to this link from Wired. Amazing.
Craig Willson - June 26, 2003 11:15 am
Dan - my feed in coming from metar reports provided by NOAA.
Mike - July 2, 2003 4:40 pm
For all you lightning fanatics out there check out this article. Like Steve's link to wired magazine, this one talks about strange atmospheric lightning phenomea, but it includes pictures too!
Dan James - July 8, 2003 2:55 pm
To my delight, Environment Canada has updated their web radar system and now it refreshes every 20 mins (as opposed to an hour before).
http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=que
Mike - July 11, 2003 12:17 pm
For anyone out there using Miranda Instant Messenger, there is a weather plugin that displays the current weather information in your contact list. Used in combination with a history plugin it can be kind of neat.
Ryan Hillier - July 23, 2003 2:50 am
Holy Severe Thunderstorm Watch Issued, Batman!
On a side note, what's the deal with the Weather Office's forecast phrasing? ie. What is the difference between a "risk of thunderstorms" and a "chance of thunderstorms?"
Tom - July 28, 2003 9:28 am
Hey, if you like weather then check out www.sec.noaa.gov
I'm always checking the environment canada website, since I'm stuck in a cubical all day. But the NOAA's site really keeps me ahead of the pack when it comes to weather. So you hear about that strong geomagnetic storm? Awesome.
Cheers