Saturday - February 13, 2010
hate the name, love the site
I’ve installed two little widgety thingies on the right sidebar. They show the weather at my place and at Peiper’s. Just for fun. My brother sent me the link, and it looks like this might be one of the better weather sites online. It’s hooked into all the active local weather stations. You know, those little recording and reporting mechanisms that are all over the country, the ones Watts Up With That was tracking down? Thousands of them.
Turns out that there is one of these stations just a few hundred yards away from where I live. One problem: it’s dead. It’s been reporting ___ degrees, ___ wind speed, ___ wind direction, etc., for some time now. So to get data for the widget I have to use the weather station just south of town. I can’t use the Cherryville station (found at Watts Up) because it doesn’t seem to exist. Or, if it does exist, it doesn’t report in real-time the way these other stations do. Every 5 minutes actually.
Going to this link gets you a nice full size terrain map around your area, and all the local readings. Clicking on any of those numbers brings up that weather station and it’s current readings. Clicking on the ID of that weather station takes you in to the web site itself, and from there you can hit links for all sorts of weather related stuff. The only thing that I can find wrong with the place is it’s name.
It’s called the Weather Underground.
Poor choice of names. Very. That’s the name of a terrorist group. And they now it. But like the “Che” crap, I think they think that makes them cool. Um, wrong.
The growing Internet weather program was given the name Weather Underground, a reference to the 1960’s radical group that also originated at the University of Michigan, which had taken its name from the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues, “You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.”
So I’ll keep those 2 weather links on the side for a bit for fun, while I debate whether I should associate with these folks. Come on, if your local meat store was The Al Qaida Butcher Shop, would you give them business? Humus by Hamas? The Sinn Fein Leprechaun House, “we put the IRA in IRA-ish”? This is pretty much the same thing.
Posted by Drew458
on 02/13/2010 at 02:27 PM
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