June 24, 2001

10:43 PM

Current NIDS Data.

I like this page because I can see if my house is going to be fried by a lightning strike or flattened by a tornado without having to put up will all of weather.com or intellicast's popup ad B.S. It's very convenient and timely.
posted by dr. zoidberg (9 comments total)

It looks interesting, but don't you think most people want a simple forecast (temperature, precipitation, and cloud cover) for their area? Does it offer that, too?
posted by pracowity at 11:34 PM on June 24, 2001

Does it offer that, too?

elsewhere, but it appears to be a work in progress.
posted by register at 11:44 PM on June 24, 2001

Is that the Atari map of America?
posted by nathan_teske at 12:41 AM on June 25, 2001

Very cool, once it loads (which for us pre-broadband people, is after quite some time). There's currently something beautiful happening over Long Islang (which is a pretty rare thing for Long Island!); Nothing over Paramus : (

But is it really responsible anymore to 'dis ads (on weather.com)? If the 'dis-ing continues, there will be nothing left on the Web except Mefi and blogs. Oh.
posted by ParisParamus at 5:35 AM on June 25, 2001

Try these also:

NWS's Current weather

NWS's Doppler radar
posted by Witold at 11:57 AM on June 25, 2001

I prefer to look at the HPC surface charts and forecast maps. None of that spoonfeeding for me. Nope, I know how to interpret station plots! And surface front codes! [490!
posted by iceberg273 at 12:05 PM on June 25, 2001

Yeah, but can you read an ETA forecast model?
posted by toastcowboy at 6:12 PM on June 25, 2001

Yeah, but can you read an ETA forecast model?

Raw output? Most of it. I prefer to just get the meteograms from the NCEP, however. Meteograms, yay!
posted by iceberg273 at 6:37 PM on June 25, 2001

Sweetness
posted by toastcowboy at 9:12 PM on June 25, 2001