What's more current than the weather?

[Undertoad]

It's exceptional to look at. I think I could live there, you know, except for the winters

it's actually probably an option since the family still has a wee chunk of land there

[tw]

Apparently the Atlantic Ocean ran out of hurricanes for the year. Tropical Storm Epsilon may be the last.

Eastern Pacific may have finished with its record number of storms. Last one, that died while heading for California, was Norbert - a 14th storm.

Ironically, Panama has had so little rain that some container ships must now lighten their load. So that canals use less water.

[Lamplighter]

Weather Underground is the weather-map that I have occasionally used in posting here.
It is a fantastic web site, with lots and lots of detail.
Here is a example:

BUT now this:
Democratic Underground
JOHN SCHWARTZ and BRIAN STELTER
7/3/12

Fans Howl After Weather Site Buys Out Rival

The announcement on Monday that the Weather Channel Companies,
owners of television’s Weather Channel and weather.com, would buy one of its rivals,
Weather Underground, set off howls of displeasure on social media
platforms and around water coolers across the nation.
The purchase price was not disclosed.
<snip>
The controversy illustrates the deep national divide between those people
who just want to know if it’s going to rain, and people who really, really,
care about the data underlying the weather.

Christopher Maxwell, a manager at a solar energy company in Richmond, Va.,
is in the really-really-cares-about-the-weather camp. He said he saw the
Weather Channel deal as a sad sellout for Weather Underground.
<snip>
Weather Underground was founded in 1995 in Ann Arbor,
where it grew out of the University of Michigan’s online weather database.
The name was a winking reference to the radical group that also had its roots in Ann Arbor.

Mr. Maxwell said he appreciated Weather Underground’s fanatical devotion to data,
and how it drew information from so many thousands of weather stations
run by users that he is able to determine “microclimates” of variation that
can prove important in getting the most out of a new solar installation.

And here is one of the published comments to this article:

8. Guess who bought them out... BAIN CAPITAL, Comcast and the Blackstone Group!

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Weather Underground is the weather-map that I have occasionally used in posting here.

Damn. Weather.com is really annoying if you search for anything besides current temperature and the 10 day prediction. I was actually looking (slowly) for a site that is more dedicated to data.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Philly airport is shutting down all day tomorrow(Saturday 1-23).

[glatt]

DC too.

Fingers crossed for you, Clodfobble.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The wet weather brings Sprites...



from 35 to 55 miles up...



often obscured by storm clouds...