Category Archives: weather

WeatherUnderground Gets fullscreen and keeps getting better

Posted on February 12, 2010 by gisuser

Are you still jumping to weather.com for weather updates?? IF so STOP IT and check out Weatherunderground. the latest update from the team is the new, fullscreenweather, a service optimized for iPad – although you can use it on any … Continue reading →

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UMapper Rolls Out real-time weather maps with animated radar and more

Posted on January 19, 2010 by glenn

An update comes our way from Andrei at uMapper as they have recently rolled out a cool UMapper feature. Users can now create real-time weather maps with animated radar, temperatures and forecasts. Simply zoom on your location of choice and … Continue reading →

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Tracking Hurricanes? There’s an app for that!

Posted on September 9, 2009 by glenn

iPhone users can easily stay informed of the latest news and reports on hurricane activity using the SFHurricane application. Pulling feeds from the NHC RSS feed, users have access to the latest news updates, graphics (maps) and reports. In addition … Continue reading →

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Michael Vick May need some Mobile Mapping Tools To Get to the Field On Time

Posted on August 27, 2009 by glenn

It seems the sporting world is glued to updates concerning Michael Vick today as he prepares to take to the field for the first time in 2 years. I’m not getting in to any discussion about Vick’s past, his future, … Continue reading →

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Windsor, Colorado – one year after the tornado

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Glenn

Driving through beautiful, little Windsor, Colorado today its tough to believe that it was one year ago today exactly that a powerful tornado ripped through the quiet town, destroying homes, pulling up trees and scaring the hell out of the … Continue reading →

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Galveston Island Post Hurricane Ike Imagery

Posted on September 21, 2008 by Glenn

For those of you interested in accessing data on Galveston Isl, post Hurricane Ike, NOAA has made available a vast collection of data including loads of imagery. See http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/ike/IKE0000.HTM or the homepage at http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/ike/. Data are 50 cm resolution imagery, … Continue reading →

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TNRIS Tracking Hurricane Gustav via virtual Earth

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Glenn

TNRIS has a very nice web mapping service (powered via Microsoft Virtual Earth) showing users where Gustav is currently located – live doppler feed show the progress of the storm as it heads over Louisiana and into NE Texas – … Continue reading →

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Mashup maps Impact of Hurricane Gustav on oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Glenn

Brian over at the Timoney group has share details of some work his team did over the labor-day week-end to help convey the impacts of hurricane Gustav on oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. the mashup shows … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Gustav GIS data, Imagery and path compared to Katrina

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Glenn

Wow, dejavu! Here we am almost 3 years to the day on a Sunday morning as I find myself searching around for some real-time imagery and data showing a major Hurricane headed towards the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Perhaps the quickest … Continue reading →

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Weather Underground Hurricane-Tracking service

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Glenn

This morning online weather provider Weather Underground announced theavailability of a new Hurricane-Tracking service – Wundermap. WunderMap displays the current position, strength and movement of every tropical storm across the world that threatens to become a hurricane, typhoon or cyclone.WunderMap … Continue reading →

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The Top Tornado Prone areas in the US

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Glenn

Wow, what happened to Kansas and Oklahoma?? Looks like Denver CO is topping the list this year from RiskMeter online. According to a report just released by the RiskMeter Online, the following top ten tornado prone metro-areas are as follows: … Continue reading →

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QuincyFloodInfo providesd information for the Mid-West flood of 2008

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Glenn

This comes to me from Shane in the Mid-west… Mid-West GIS, Inc, out of Quincy, Illinois recently developed the website www.QuincyFloodInfo.com in order to gather information for the flood of 2008 on one website. The site hosts weather, river gauge, … Continue reading →

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