CustomWeather - Weather API for Web Sites

Having recently visited SimpleWeather and found them using CustomWeather, we thought we'd pass along the info to this cool weather service. CustomWeather is one of the most comprehensive weather service providers today, offering the highest level of detailed coverage, accuracy and customization. Their products and services are intended to be fully integrated and private labeled to support the branding whoever buys the data service.

At CustomWeather

AccuWeather.com Now On Opera Mini Start Page

Opera has announced they are now including a direct link to the AccuWeather mobile website from the Opera Mini start page.

AccuWeather’s Senior VP of New Media saying: “We’re very pleased to offer our weather directly to Opera Mini users from their start page.”

Opera’s Senior VP of Consumer Products said: “Offering fast and convenient access to pertinent information is part of that experience and is even more critical on a mobile device. Partnering with AccuWeather.com provides timely and useful weather information to our users wherever they are.”

It is indeed just Weather, but it's probably for Opera one of the few exclusive links/content agreements they have.

Via Gadgetell At Opera

National Weather Service Doppler Radar Images

Want a quick way to get to a larger more interactive doppler radar image of your area? The National Weather Service Doppler Radar Images is a great resource - providing quick point and click access to over 100+ doppler images for the US.

At National Weather Service Doppler Radar Images

Realtime Weather Using Your Nintendo Wii and Sega NIGHTS

Okay - this is a great idea. Use the Wii weather channel (a feature of the Nintendo Game console), and then display the weather in the game Nights that's like the weather where you are. Nuts.

As previously reported, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams on the Wii will take real-time weather information from the Wii's forecast channel. Instead of using this feature in story mode, however, NiGHTS will only make use of real-time weather in the "My Dream" mode, a virtual pet environment separate from the main game.

1UP details the new "My Dream" mode, which will feature the same "A-Life" virtual pet system that's been featured in many Sonic Team games, from the original NiGHTS to the Sonic Adventure series. Now, however, the A-Life environment will pull data from the Wii's forecast channel, allowing you to raise adorable creatures in spaces that mimic the actual weather on your area. Pretty cool, right?

Less cool are the screenshots CVG presents along with this information, which "show off" the weather effects in action. All screens look pulled out of the N64 generation, with low-res textures, a sparse spattering of low-poly trees, and very little else.

1UP's preview states that the "My Dream" space starts out sparse, but becomes more robust as players progress. Still, things aren't looking so pretty in general, and the lack of objects certainly doesn't explain away the "low-def" feel of it all. With the US release of the title a little over a month away, here's hoping the special mode looks a lot better in action.

[Via Joystiq]

XM WX Satellite Weather Data Service

Looking for weather on your Garmin GPSMAP 276c Portable Chartplotter you'll need the XM WX Satellite Weather package.

Now you can receive comprehensive graphical weather displays 24x7 in your plane, boat, vehicle or any fixed location in the continental U.S. and 100 miles into U.S. Coastal waters. Multiple weather conditions similar to those shown over the internet or on TV weather reports can be shown in near real-time on laptops, chartplotters, electronic flight bags, PDAs or other display devices. XM WX gives you the ability to view weather across the U.S. at a glance, as well as the flexibility to zero in on any specific location you need – all you do is identify the area you want and zoom into it.

* Precipitation Type (at surface)
* Wind
* Visibility
* Sea Conditions
* Severe Weather Storm Tracks and
* Satellite Mosaic and more

Hopefully we'll get our hands on one of these GPS units soon over at GPSLodge.com and put the XM WX Satellite Weather package through it's paces.