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Elegant Full Screen Weather Map Web Page
« on: February 13, 2010, 12:04 AM »
From lifehacker comes news of this very elegant full screen, clutterless display of weather in your area from the weather underground website.  Would be nice to use this in a screensaver that auto-refreshed it (anyone know of such a screensaver?)


http://fullscreenweather.com/


Screenshot - 2_12_2010 , 6_00_34 PM_thumb.png


from http://lifehacker.com/5470766/full-screen-weather-is-a-giant-no+frills-weather-map

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Re: Elegant Full Screen Weather Map Web Page
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2010, 12:56 AM »
This would be awesome if it was a little bit more in depth.  Could do with specifics on what the cloud type is over specific areas, and perhaps even wind speeds and direction (Handy for deciding if its a nice enough day to go flying)

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Re: Elegant Full Screen Weather Map Web Page
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2010, 03:26 AM »
:huh: It has wind speed & direction listed in the gray mini panel.

I grabbed their gadget to see how it compares to the one I'm currently using. Current gadget says 45f underground's says 38.5f - I'm thinking it feels about 38 outside (their predicting snow...).

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Re: Elegant Full Screen Weather Map Web Page
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2010, 04:29 AM »
i wrote a web page once that would run google maps full screen, i even had it set as my active desktop wallpaper at one time (i know how horrible active desktop is, no need to remind me) and i had something that would overlay radar images on google maps. if i were to combine the two things i could probably make some kind of wrapper that would make it act like a screensaver. animating the radar would be possible as well, and auto updating it
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Re: Elegant Full Screen Weather Map Web Page
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2010, 08:32 PM »
Odd, it's just a blank white screen on my monitor. Flash is on, but so is adblock.
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Re: Elegant Full Screen Weather Map Web Page
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2010, 09:48 PM »
:huh: It has wind speed & direction listed in the gray mini panel.

I grabbed their gadget to see how it compares to the one I'm currently using. Current gadget says 45f underground's says 38.5f - I'm thinking it feels about 38 outside (their predicting snow...).

seems like my browser is blocking the most of it lol

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Re: Elegant Full Screen Weather Map Web Page
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2010, 07:13 PM »
seems pretty good for Europe too
btw, with FF & Flashblock & Adblock on I can still see all / or most (? havent checked) of it


Edit: 'Weather Underground' seems pretty good too - prob helps that I'm half an hour from an airport...
Tom
« Last Edit: February 14, 2010, 07:15 PM by tomos »

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