Rubber Duck Tip of the Week: The Weather

I love weather websites. Watch the clouds roll in, compare forecasts. Weather Underground is my favorite. But then I ran into WeatherSpark. Check it out. Dodgeball weather looking good:

Click the map to go to WeatherSpark with some of my settings. It looks complicated, and it is. But well worth figuring out. Besides forecasts all graphically shown. You can select the cloud cover graph, wind speed graph, wind direction graph, rain accumulation, all sorts of stuff. But the cool thing is to go back into the past. Currently anything after 2007 and you can playback the storm. Watch the clouds roll in for last year’s Halloween storm. Watch the wind direction as Irene comes ashore.

It’s in beta testing so the data will likely go back all the way to your birthday soon.

Rubber Duck Bonus tip: once you pull the slider back and forth (down in the bottom right) so that a past storm is showing, CLICK and DRAG across the hours you want replayed in the map on the left. Now run the cloud movie (slider below map.)

About Paul Morrison & RD

Good Morning Gloucester reporter possessing the dangerous combination of a Press Pass and a Rubber Duck.
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3 Responses to Rubber Duck Tip of the Week: The Weather

  1. Gma says:

    This is so cool. I really am into watching the weather. Where I am living right now in northern Michigan,right now,we are getting 20″+ of snow by morning.
    I usually use http://www.yoweather.com which is neat too. thanks for this site.

  2. I am going to check this out right now. I have a weather station in my back yard.
    And I have weather Bug. I have a friend in the ID. Her car was getting hit by hail, yesterday.

  3. Hi Paul,
    I Love it!
    you know my son used to tell me to look out the window if I wanted to see what was happen. It Is funny , my husband tells me the same thing.
    My Mother, who was born in Gloucester,ma, taught me about weather.
    I have my weather station,in the back yard, now all I need is my own Doppler.
    LOL

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