[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.] Major weather providers continue to improve their services this week in a virtual "Net War." The latest developments: 1. As someone posted to WX-TALK when I was asleep at the wheel, Intellicast is adding an additional Local NEXRAD Product to their site, and like other sites of recent, they are letting YOU vote. If you haven't cast yours yet you can do so at http://www.intellicast.com/survey/ 2. In other Intell News, they have followed Accu's lead by posting a complete US map with sites plotted and a text list of sites below. No more cryptic codes and browsing through cities to find the NEXRADs they offer - the are all here. http://www.intellicast.com/weather/usa/nexrad/ Includes all 143 (?) Continental US NEXRADs, some of which weren't displayed before, and San Juan PR plus two in Hawaii. WSI is unique in the San Juan radar in that they were able to get their land line to the NEXRAD there fixed after the recent riots while UNISYS, who provides weather to most of the competition, appears to have been unable to do so. Should a hurricane approach PR this summer I will throw myself between the two ends of the broken line so we can ahieve redundancy. They are also unique in that they have the power to obtain two of the Hawaii NEXRADs while UNISYS is unwilling to thus far, according to sources. 3. The Weather Underground has further improved their site this week by adding automatic translation of any page into 23 different languages. They have also added more Current Condition Maps and Regional Current Condition Maps: Alaska | Northwest | Midwest | Northeast | Southwest | Southcentral | Southeast | Temperature | Radar Map | HeatIndex | Windchill | Humidity. They have been long standing an excellent database of Current Conditions in weird International places as well as all accessible stations in the US. Now they have added 2-4 day forecasts to every International site (they continue with NWS forecasts for US locations). http://www.wunderground.com/ -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "I'm still waiting for the ASOS at Area51 (id A51 no doubt) to be unveiled. I *know* they've got one there - planes flying in, planes flying out..."