Really nice design work on The Las Vegas Sun’s new weather page. And of course, I’d be remiss to not point out that it’s Ellington and Django-powered. ;) Visit site »
Ben Tesch, one of several great web designers and developers just across the lake at MSNBC.com, is about to launch Cumul.us, a site which will aggregate weather data and use crowdsourcing to try to make better weather predictions than the experts. Who knows if it’ll work, but it sounds like a killer idea to me, and I can’t wait to see it in action. Visit site »
There was lightning in Seattle last night. Not impressive lightning, mind you. Just plain-jane, boring-ass lightning. And yet today, KING5 TV has a video of it on their site. It’s big news. That cracks me up. I seriously think most long-time Seattleites wouldn’t last through one Kansas storm without running for underground shelter. Visit site »
Also from BestPlaces.net’s Seattle page: “Snowfall is 11 inches. The average US city gets 25 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 155.
On average, there are 152 sunny days per year in Seattle, WA. The July high is around 75 degrees. The January low is 37. Our comfort index, which is based on humidity during the hot months, is a 72 out of 100, where higher is more comfortable. The US average on the comfort index is 44.”
Interesting. Visit site »
“The weathermen in Beijing (have) plans to fire rockets to disperse rain clouds, an experiment aimed at securing more sunshine during the 2008 Olympics.”
As I’m moving to a rainier climate in a week and a half, I thought I’d bookmark this for future reference. Visit site »
I’m a bit surprised to see Nintendo play this so straight. I figured they’d do it in typical cutsey fashion, with your Mii acting as the talking head or something. But it’s clean, straight-forward, and looks well-done. Can’t wait to play with it when my Wii arrives at my house tomorrow. Visit site »
An astonishingly-accurate “what-if” scenario about a category 4/5 hurricane hitting New Orleans, written in November of 2004. Visit site »
I find this pretty facinating. Apparently the north pole moved about an inch with the tsunami. Wild stuff. Visit site »
Very cool set of photos depicting our unpredictable weather. Visit site »