What is Your Favorite Weather Map?
Jun.14, 2008 in
Weather
While I write this, it’s super windy outside. Windy enough that I figured, “Hey, why not check the weather?” I bounced over to weather.com to see what’s happening.
I searched by zip, clicked the map, then selected my favorite map from the options. That map: Doppler Radar 600-Mile in Motion.
That’s what I’m looking for. How severe is it and is the peak of the storm here yet? Curiosity had been fed. Back to normal Internet programming.
So, what about you? If you could only view one weather map, which would you choose?
Paul Douglas and other local weather gurus: We’d love to hear your take on this topic where you must have an opinion.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:33 am
This one:
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/USMN0503?from=36hr_maps&zoom=8&interactiveMapLayer=radar
June 14th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Might as well be getting some benefit of my tax dollars:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=MPX&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
and/or
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php
Curiously, the short range page is Java craplet powered while the long range page is not.
Cheers
June 14th, 2008 at 10:26 am
I like how weatherbonk.com does radar/cloud overlays.
Daniel
June 14th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I like to get the full resolution national one that takes a good 30 seconds to load up even on a fast connection:
http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/full_loop.php
Weird thing is in safari, it blinks blue while loading.
June 14th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Interesting question. I like Intellicast but having read your post, will check out the Doppler thingie on weather.com, too. Couldn’t find a similar feature on Intellicast.
http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx?animate=true
June 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Wow, I didn’t realize how quickly I’d get to check out the links. Thanks for sharing. They came in handy as the weather picked up tonight.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
My favorite weathermap is found at http://www.wunderground.com — but is only available to subscribers. Before you complain about subscribing, it is only $5/yr for no ad service. The weather map is a zoom style kick ass weather map. You can pan and zoom to your locale. Very cool.