Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Taking Weather Seriously

I've always been fascinated by weather. I love to use webcams and government sites to check weather around the world. One of my favourites is Kimmirut, Nunavut, Canada, a tiny of 400 people in Canada's north. They have a wonderful weather website that features a big picture of the a road from the town leading down to a small bay. It has gobs of data and graphs. They have a satellite view of North America, a lovely graphic for the week's weather prediction from Environment Canada, big charts and graphs for local conditions, a graphic for the phases of the moon and sunrise & sunset, and links to historical data. It is an absolutely stunning site. And when you realize it is a tiny little community of 400 people, you are amazed. Somebody in that town is a first class weather fanatic and wants to share his fascination.

Take a peek: here.

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