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June 14th, 2008 under 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.


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    [ # 5511 ] Comment from Kevin [June 14, 2008, 8:33 am]

    [ # 5512 ] Comment from Steve [June 14, 2008, 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

    [ # 5513 ] Comment from ddjohnson [June 14, 2008, 10:26 am]

    I like how weatherbonk.com does radar/cloud overlays.

    Daniel

    [ # 5514 ] Comment from justin [June 14, 2008, 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.

    [ # 5515 ] Comment from mbjorn [June 14, 2008, 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

    [ # 5518 ] Comment from kohler [June 14, 2008, 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.

    [ # 5519 ] Comment from Kirk [June 15, 2008, 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.

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