[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).] 1. AgriWeather.Com: AccuWeather introduced AgriWeather this week, which is a service like their Personal AccuWeather service but including free commodity forecasts, quotes, and discussions powered by FutureSource. http://www.agriweather.com/ 2. Climo Data!: The most interesting addition to me however was the Local Climatological Data section, which shows daily Average and Actual Highs, Lows, Rainfall, and Snowfall, mapped to all US zipcodes, for each day over the last 12 months. I get many requests for "what was the weather on..." and the like and am glad to see this pop up somewhere for free. To receive this data, go to http://www.agriweather.com, input your zipcode, pick "Local" then pick "Climatology" from the dropdown menu. 3. WeatherLabs Back In The Game: WeatherLabs, which had gone from a premier weather content provider to a corporate website with little live data, has come back with another web site redesign and is now offering a detailed 4-part 1-day and 5-day forecast (Intl 3-day), localized animated radar, regional icon and satellite maps, for all US zipcodes (nearest forecast match mapped) and hundreds of International cities. http://www.weatherlabs.com/ 4. Kitecast and MesoWinds: Intellicast introduced KiteCast last week which has US and Regional Condition maps pertaining to kiting. http://www.intellicast.com/kitecast/ The most interesting of those maps are 3-hourly RUC2 model output wind speed and direction for major metropolitan areas of the United States: http://www.intellicast.com/kitecast/mesowinds/ 4. Kosovo Weather: Several sites have picked up on the idea of giving weather reports for the area of military conflict in the Balkans, including AccuWeather, who is offering 5-day forecasts, maps, and a 3D Satellite flyover: http://personal.accuweather.com/iwxpage/paws/kosovo2.htm And the Weather Channel who offers a daily discussion available at: http://www.weather.com/weather_center/ 5. Major Meteorologists Talk: In the past couple months Meterologists from all sides have been having their say on the major websites. From AccuWeather, meteorologist Joe Bastardi has a Mon-Fri technical forecast (model) discussion: http://www.accuweather.com/weatherf/nationalf_qx01?text=met&partner=AccuWeather And Elliot Abram's Mon-Fri pun-filled forecast discussion is now available at: http://www.accuweather.com/weatherf/nationalf_qx01?text=elliot&partner=AccuWeather Over at WSI, Dr. Dewpoint has been updating his pages with current events and analyses every few days: http://www.intellicast.com/drdew/ 6. Etc.: AccuWeather introduced AccuTraffic.com recently, which includes travel-related weather taken from their Personal AccuWeather service including forecasts along the interstates, and links to US-wide Departments of Transportation: http://www.accutraffic.com/ The Weather Channel has a 4-part educational multimedia series on tornados available on their webiste. Includes IPIX 3D bubbles of tornado damage: http://www.weather.com/weather_center/special_report/tornado/index.html The Weather Channel has forecasts available for all the NCAA games: http://www.weather.com/eventday/marchmadness/ The Weather Channel introduced Wireless Weather recently, which is a service which will send weather to your pager. http://cgi.weather.com/cgi-bin/custom/wireless/entry.pl/ Weather24.com now offers daily email forecasts at http://www.weather24.com/email/new Reminder: These and other NetNews and World Weather News stories can always be found on the front page of the Central Atlantic Storm Investigators, www.weatherwatchers.org -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "Dust will make you blind, nothing you can find; Running scared ! Tornado !" --Vovoid, "Tornado" || ICQ No. 136832 ||