[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. "It's a miracle!" Free Real-Time Lightning Maps on the Web! Finally a company has broken the "cone of silence" regarding Real-Time Lightning Data on the Web. And that company is... the company that owns the data. Global Atmospherics runs the National Lightning Detection Network, which distributes that data to everyone who has lightning data (that isn't from their own detectors). Normally this data costs thousands of dollars per hour, but Global Atmospheric's website now features low resolution US, US Regions, and Major Cites maps with "last 15 minutes of strikes" lightning data or animation overlay. There is a small signup process to receive the data but it is FREE. For now; they reserve the right to charge for it in the future. So, get it while the getting is good, folks. http://www.glatmos.com/et/et.html 2. This week AccuWeather introduced a Travel section of their Personal AccuWeather service which includes 5-day forecasts for each station along any of about 50 U.S. Major Interstates, just in time for your Thanksgiving plans. If you're paying for the service you'll get Current Conditions for the sites as well. http://www.accuweather.com/weatherf/travel_qx01 3. Last week Intellicast introduced new SkiCast imagery to their website - including US and regional county-outlined maps of forecast Snow, Sun, 24-hour Temp Change, and also a unique Winter Storm Tracker (like a hurricane tracker). http://www.intellicast.com/skicast/ 4. TWC introduced Weather Channel/Brasil recently, a Brazilian Version of their Weather Channel site offering a number of weathermaps and specific forecasts for Brazil. http://tempo.weather.com/ Additionally this week, a press release indicates that TWC has partnered with Digital City, an online portal site which supports a number of major cities with local news and weather http://www.digitalcity.com/ -- ============================================================== 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 ||