Wait, isn't everyone using these since at least 5 years? A biking culture and frequent weather with intermitted showers has apparently clouded my view here.
(Simply google weather radar and the area you want to look at, and project the speed of shower areas to know when to leave the house and how fast you have to ride to stay dry..)
Where are you pulling the info from? Regardless, this is something I didn't realize I wanted but have already followed the relevant ones. I don't like all the third party weather sites and usually rely on NOAA, but this makes it so I will see the radar in the morning. Cool stuff.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 49.7 ms ] thread[0] http://www.fullscreenweather.com
http://forecast.weather.gov/afm/PointClick.php?lat=33.9321&l...
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=all&textField1...
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Sharon&sta...
http://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html
They've done lots of modernizing in the last while, it used to be much worse but at least they're paying attention to it.
(Simply google weather radar and the area you want to look at, and project the speed of shower areas to know when to leave the house and how fast you have to ride to stay dry..)
Here's the continental US (@wxGIF): https://twitter.com/wxGIF
And a list of the bot network: https://twitter.com/wxGIF/following
Data source: http://radar.weather.gov/GIS.html My GitHub repo: https://github.com/mattparrilla/wxGIF
Notice also how post-processing/filtering the data can make a big difference in the results and interpretation:
Image #1: weather-ng.com: http://pbrd.co/1DzfPkq Image #2: UW Atmospheric Sciences: http://pbrd.co/1DzfYEh
Much more detail in #2.
This plus a big monitor, my kids think they are in a weather command center ;)
http://www.yr.no/radar/norden.html