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Weather is big business. Farmers want to know when is the best time to plant (or harvest). Event organizers want to know if a thunderstorm might come up during an open-air concert. And the rest of us want to know about their daily commute and plans for the weekend barbeque.
During a chat not long ago in the #Soylent channel of SoylentNews' IRC server, I discovered there are likely others who have an interest in all things weather-related.
I thought it might be interesting to see what weather resources my fellow Soylentils use. Not just for forecasting, but for getting current conditions, and while we are at it, let's include space weather forecasts, too. Note: I live in the USA and my primary browser is Pale Moon; please submit comments with other resources!
- Broadcast media - Local radio / TV station broadcasts.
- The Weather Channel - Cable TV weather channel
- http://www.accuweather.com/ - online weather forecast
- http://www.intellicast.com/ - online weather forecast
- ForecastFox -- an addon for Firefox, it gets a localized report from AccuWeather and displays it in a toolbar in FireFox (original, FF v28+) browser.
- http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/RadarLoop/usa_None_anim.gif - Radar Loop for entire USA.
- https://earth.nullschool.net/ - earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
- http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php - A worldwide, real time, community collaborative lightning location network.
- http://www.weather.gov/ US National Weather Service.
- http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index - Planetary k-index -- likelihood of geomagnetic storms (aurora).
- http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/aurora-forecast-northern-hemisphere.jpg - visual prediction of aurora in northern hemisphere or southern hemisphere
Many of the sites require some Javascript, but I have had success using NoScript and selectively enabling from 1 to 4 domains to get things to work.
My favorite going-down-the-rabbit-hole site is at nullschool.net -- click on the word "earth" to bring up (and hide) a menu of features and presentations you can choose. Check out ocean currents and temps, surface winds and temps, etc. See their about page for a more detailed summary of the options.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:05AM (3 children)
Back in the 70's I had a friend who had weather stuff all over his house and back yard, he wrote things down every day.
I've got some digital doohicky that keeps track of temperature, humidity, pressure, etc. It's got a satellite sensor I've nailed outside my door that also records temperature, humidity, pressure, etc.
I pretty much use to it look at and "huh", as I get up in the morning, scratch my balls, and do my Folger's bit.
/ postmark. Best part of the morning is waking up, peeing, and going back to bed.
// smart people have machines that take good coffee and brew it when you tell it to
/// cannot imagine why anyone would ever drink instant coffee, unless they were in prison somewhere with no other choice
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:07AM (2 children)
Heh, just realized you have to be at least 30 years old to get my Folger's reference.
/ damn I'm getting old
// grandkids are teenagers.......
/// wonder if I'll be remembered as the kewlest grandpop ever, or the WTF grandpop
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:39AM
I expect to die alone and to be found dead with a stash of gay porn, just like both of my uncles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:49AM
In 2009, the other site reported on a "Folgers' Test"[1] [google.com] done on Windoze users.
They thought that Linux+KDE was a newer, fancier version of Windoze. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [slashdot.org]
[1] I tried to filter out more of the noise, but Google completely fumbled that for no apparent reason. [google.com]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]