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Reader Larry writes:
Betcha haven’t seen this LBS yet!
An umbrella that you carry while walking over a giant map of the world, and it subjects you to the weather of the part of the world you’re standing on.. kinda the opposite of what an umbrella is supposed to do.
Lights reveal the weather (white for lightening, yellow for sun, blue for rain/snow) which comes from Yahoo Weather’s XML files.
- Original site (German/English with pictures)
Update 3/1/07: I forgot to note, it’s in partnership with Microsoft.
The new app will appear at http://www.weather.com on Monday and provide a slider so visitors can “zoom in” on the location of interest. The maps will show detailed road maps and satellite imagery. The company will start local mapping for points of interest, next.
I guess I’m spoiled. My city is quite small geographically and the local weather at Accuweather (hey, I’m a Penn Stater!) is fine. And, I’m a big fan of the hourly forecasts. (I use them to figure out the likely temperature at start, middle and end of long running races.) I know others swear by Weather Underground.
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Somebody in Washington is finally listening. Anyone who lives in an area that is subject to severe weather knows quite well that even with a NOAA weather radio, the warnings issued can be miles away and sometimes irrelevant to your particular location. Weather statements of "watches" or "warnings" are issued for entire counties, which in areas of the western United States can be one hundred miles across such as in places like Campbell County, Wyoming. Now comes word that NOAA is changing the way they issue warnings for "short duration" events like tornadoes or flash floods. According to the press release, the "National Weather Service will specify areas within a county and refer to commonly known landmarks such as highways or rivers." I commented on this particular problem last year in an article on my experiences with an earthquake in Hawai’i. The results of these "storm-based warnings," says NOAA, is to enable quicker and more accurate graphical dissemination of information via the web and mobile devices.
