Weather Channel Testing New Interactive Map
The Weather channel website is not really known for cutting edge technology, but today is different. The weather channel has taken it up a notch into the Web 2.0 world with their new interactive weather map. Using Microsoft Virtual Earth technology they’ve created a pretty handy little application. Google has a similar weather mapping utility, but it’s pretty lame compared to this. The only gripe I have with the Weather Channel utlity is that it does not currently have radar mapping all the way down to the street level. I think it would be cool to run outside and try and avoid the rain based on their mapping data.
Know any other good weather mapping utilities? Let me know.
UPDATE: I also found this site called WeatherBonk, which has web cams tied to Google Maps for real time weather data. Still not the radar data I wanted, but getting closer to an all-in-one weather solution. And after chatting with David, one of the designers of WeatherBonk, I found out they even have Doppler Rader overlays (click on “Radar”). Or I could just look out the window.
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