Track Hurricane Hannah - Track Hurricanes On Stormpulse
Techcrunch is featuring a new service called Stormpulse. Want to know when that hurricane in your area will pass by or tear your roof off? Stormpulse has the info.
Wonder where Hurricane Ike will hit or when Tropical Storm Hanna will pass? Hurricane season has lots of people glued to the Weather Channel to catch the latest updates on developing storms. But why wait for the weatherman to tell you what is going on when you can check for yourself online? One of the best places to do that is Stormpulse. (Google Earth is another one). Stormpulse shows active hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic. And the graphics are better than TV because you can play around with them.
At Sony's recent press conference, SCE president Kaz Hirai revealed new software called "Life With PlayStation,". It's a virtual globe that can be explored to reveal weather and news. We're excited to see Sony go the more realistic route. Though we like our Wii weather - it's a bit cartoony.
Storm Chasers from National Geographic - Forces of Nature
We're recently been watching several storm chaser videos. The excerpt below we found on YouTube, gives you a taste of the weather excitement. We think both the National Geographic - Forces of Nature and the National Geographic - Tornado Intercept are pretty solid, and recommend you checking them out. In our opinion - enjoying storm chasing from the comfort of your couch is the way to go after getting into a few scrapes ourselves trying out the hobby.
This just has to be seen. We were always under the impression that weather forecasters had a little more moxie than this guy has when faced with a simple roach on the ground that walks by while forecasting. Imagine what would happen if he actually had to give the weather forecast on location?
In what can only be called the oddest yet I can't stop watching weather forecast we've every seen, Weather Angels provides a daily forecast with meteorologists of the hot model persuasion. We don't condone this type of weather forecast, but it is really popular, and it is safe for work. View if you dare...
Oh Canada - how different you really are. The Weather Network, a channel watched by more than eight million Canadians each week, has been granted permission to branch out into comedy, drama and documentaries. Canada's broadcast regulator yesterday gave Pelmorex Communications Inc., owner of the Weather Network, a licence to operate the Environment Network, which will focus on science and weather-related issues. The company pitched the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission last fall on a new cable channel with shows such as The Weather & You and Climates of the World.
"It's a very topical subject that is of great interest to the Canadian public," said Pierre Morrissette, chief executive officer of Pelmorex. "The categories that this covers - from global warming, climate change, droughts, floods, forest fires, earthquakes and tsunamis, water quality and quantity - the list goes on and on."
A rather interesting video that you can hear the crew of a ship riding through a rather large storm in the Drake Passage. I think this video helps ensure I won't be making the trip to Antarctica anytime soon.
It's cold here in the Northeast, and we're pretty sure the Day After Tomorrow is right around the corner. Okay - well maybe not, but if you want to see a movie that has both amazing weather and global warming all in one package - the The Day After Tomorrow is for you.
The movie centers on global warming triggering the onset of a new Ice Age. Tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Then, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than any they've ever encountered: Mother Nature!
Come on - admit it - it's a much watch for weather snobs.
You too can buy the Weather Channel for a cool $5 billion+. Cable TV network The Weather Channel is on the market for a reported $5 billion or more, according to the NY Times.
As well as providing the leading cable weather channel, the company also has a big web presence, with Weather.com the 25th most popular site in the United States, according to Alexa. The Weather Channel provides data to a range of leading online destinations including MySpace, Yahoo and AOL and started offering mobile video forecasts with technology from Vantrix in October.
Potential buyers are said to include NBC, Comcast and News Corp.
Okay - we're not big fans of smooth jazz, but we do enjoy a little taste when watching our favorite television channel - The Weatehr Channel. The 12-song collection features the Channel's most requested music by such known artists as Dave Koz, Najee, Chick Corea, Pieces of a Dream, Joyce Cooling, Jeff Lorber, Four 80 East, 3rd Force and Paprika Soul. The CD also includes 3 most-requested songs heard only on The Weather Channel by Jeanne Ricks, Ryan Farish and Mark Krumowski.
Now where did we put that all-weather cd player? Hmmm...
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.
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