Category Archives: weather
Imagery of Moore, Oklahoma before and after May 20 tornado
The Pléiades satellites, operated and built by Astrium have captured images of Moore, Oklahoma, which clearly shows the devastation caused by the massive tornado that swept through the region on May 20, 2013. By comparing today’s image with an image … Continue reading
Esri Map Shows Real-Time Effects of Winter Storm Nemo
Just in time as the winter storm “Nemo” approaches the US Northeast. A new weather map from Esri has been released to help explore live storm reports, precipitation, and weather warnings with geo-tagged social content from Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube. … Continue reading
Extreme Weather Map Reveals 10 Worst States
Some new numbers crunched by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and 2012 tallies reveal even more monthly weather records set than the 3,251 records smashed in 2011, with record-breaking heat, rainfall and snow events catalogued by State – Top … Continue reading
2012 Could Be The Year of Extreme Weather/Climate Events
2012 has been a rough year for the weather tracking and monitoring industry, so rough that the yer could be shaping up to be known by many as The yer of extreme weather events in the US. NOAA has released … Continue reading
Uber Weather for Chrome, weather on steroids!
Now available in the Google Chrome store, Uber weather (think weather on steroids). To check it out you can also fire up your Google chrome browser and hit http://uberweather.com/ for an awesome experience and be sure to hit the snow … Continue reading
Louisiana – Seven Years After Hurricanes Katrina And Rita
Amazing that already we’re headed into September and with that another hurricane season is upon us (I’ve always been somewhat of a hurricane tracker since my days living on the Gulf Coast). Hard to believe that it’s been 7 years … Continue reading
Video – Visualizing Historical Tornado tracks
Created by IDV Solutions using some 50+ years of historical hurricane track data, this animation walks you through hurricane season from 1951-2011. About the 3 minute clip… Animation shows the annual migration of tornadoes northward throughout the season. Brightness of … Continue reading
The New Accuweather for iPad – This is how to deliver a mobile experience!
Are you a mobile developer or perhaps a would-be mobile developer? If so then take note of the new mobile iPad app from Accuweather – a fine example of how to deliver an awesome user experience! Accuweather has done all … Continue reading
Tornado Risk Report Reveals Tornado Alley Could Cover All States East of The Rockies
I find this tornado and hail risk incident report from CoreLogic to be pretty interesting. Obviously being in tornado alley can be a bit risky but it seems that most tornado damage is now taking place outside of the area … Continue reading
NE Denver, Colorado Tops the list of most tornado prone region in the USA
Ever since the day a couple of years ago when I watched a tornado (F4) blow through the town of Windsor Colorado, about 1 mile from my home, I’ve had much interest in the topic of tornados and storm chasing. … Continue reading
Cyclone Yasi, Australia, Compared to the USA
You may be aware that there’s currently a massive cyclone bearing down on Northern Queensland, Australia – just what they need on the heels of the massive flooding that’s affected the region recently! I’ve been following tweets from the region … Continue reading
Go FullScreen with your Weather Maps
Looking for weather updates? Here’s another reminder about a great resource recently launched from WeatherUnderground – full screen weather. The app enables users any place in the world to quickly zoom in on the Google Maps interface to view the … Continue reading
