[NetNews: Recent news about additions and enhancements to Major Weather-Related Internet Sites, brought to you by CASI, the Central Atlantic Storm Investigators (www.weatherwatchers.org). Send your reports of recent changes or additions to the websites of *major* weather providers to netnews{at}weatherwatchers.org for consideration. We will not accept advertisements, only significant updates to major websites which affect the Internet community. This message is sent out first to CASI Members then later posted to appropriate Newsgroups.] 1. MSNBC Says "Goodbye" To WSI At 5pm today MSNBC switched their Weather Maps and Links from WSI/Intellicast to AccuWeather. They have completely dropped WSI, who had been their Internet Weather Provider since MSNBC's inception. For the celebration AccuWeather has released new radar maps that are Internet-friendly, include cities, county borders, and are much more detailed than what we've seen before from them. In addition they have added US and Regional 24-Hour Precip Accumulation much like Intellicast's. Check it out: http://www.msnbc.com/news/WEA_Front.asp 2. WeatherTap Taps Away At Competition As you may have heard already, WeatherTap burst onto the Net this week offering Base Reflectivity and Loops for all Continental US Local NEXRADs at $5-$6/month. The images are from the Harris System ( http://www.hisd.harris.com/products/weather/ ) which Aviators may be familiar with. They also feature a number of other Aviation interest maps and one heck of a High Res Visible Satellite for the Southeast US. Competitors beware! http://www.weathertap.com/ 3. Un"Exciting" 3-D Weather Paul Britton tipped me off this week to the addition of a "3-D Weather" section to Excite Weather's page. This is another Java app that will take a Pentium II to make any sense out of. Right off hand it looks like a four-day forecast with some backgrounds, possibly animated, I can't tell with my ancient P166 ;) http://www.excite.com/java_forecast/srch_index.dcg -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "They're not who we're looking for; they're just meteorologists- storm chasers." --Peter Watts, "Millennium" || ICQ No. 136832 ||