[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.] Thanks to CASI Member Paul Britton for help with this addition. 1. Lightning Maps On Net Sept. 10 1998 - For those of you who enjoyed the AccuWeather Lightning detection maps that Gopost.com used to have, there is another source for them now. Gopost.com is still dead but theweatherstation.com has both the US and SE maps in full resolution updated every hour: http://www.theweatherstation.com/accuweather/ltus4p.gif http://www.theweatherstation.com/accuweather/ltse4p.gif 2. AccuWeather adds Quicktime weather movies Sept. 20 1998 - AccuWeather has added to their Free site (they added this to their pay site a couple months ago) quicktime weather movies which they call Animotions. They include a Surface Weather Map, Temperature Band Map, and Satellite/Radar Flythrough. The surface map is similar to CNN's (http://cnn.com/WEATHER/NAmerica/us.reg/mov.forecast.html) since both use the AccuWeather Ultra workstation. 3. TWC Adds "Weather Magnets" Sept. 20 1998 - The Weather Channel counters The Weather Underground by offering "weather magnets," which are similar to "weather stickers" offered by TWU. Both are advertisements for the respective companies which also display current conditions for sites. The Weather Channel's city list at thist time is much shorter than the Weather Underground's which includes every Zipcode and many international locations. http://autocobrand.weather.com/autocobrand/autointro.html 4. Weather Underground Redesign? Late September 1998 - Looking at this URL: http://autobrand.wunderground.com shows a "different" Weather Underground page design, probably something they will be implementing soon on their main site at http://www.wunderground.com/ -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "Beware of the women who promise blue skies; There's tornado warnings in the backs of their eyes." --Boiled In Lead || ICQ No. 136832 ||