NetNews, recent weather-related news about Internet Sites, brought to
you by CASI, the Central Atlantic Storm Investigators. Send your
reports of recent changes or additions to weather websites to:
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1. AccuWeather relaunched their corporate site www.accuweather.com
today turning it from a company-centered site to a weather-centered
site. From their front page you can now get US Radar and Satellite or a
5-Day Forecast for any of the 45,000 US Zipcodes. Once inside the site
you can also get 3-day forecasts for any of the US Cities plus an
undisclosed number of international cities - a wide selection, probably
several thousand. There are many other weather graphics and also a
daily beach and boating forecast and twice daily National Weather
Summary. This is a free service which is separate from their service
Personal AccuWeather, which you can also get for free (signup was
simplified to just zipcode last week so you don't have to fill out a
long form) or pay if you desire real-time data including local nexrads.
2. Earthwatch introduced recently their Winter Weather Radar which,
similar to Intellicast and Personal AccuWeather, deliniates not just
between intensity of rain but also snow or ice.
http://www.earthwatch.com/
3. Intellicast has a special section on their site, introduced Thursday,
which gives cross-sections and animations of 3--dimensional radar echoes
from the recent Alabama tornadoes. If you haven't seen this yet, it is
very very cool. Not for the faint of bandwidth - the page is large but
with excellent detail. A must see!
http://www.intellicast.com/drdew/tornado/
4. WeatherLabs has redesigned their website, http://www.weatherlabs.com
. At this time it appears that they have removed all current free
weather content although the old site should be supported for some time.
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Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org
Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org
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