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The fine folks over at Simple Weather have kicked out a mobile version that looks great on your iPhone. Bookmark simpw.com and you'll have speedy, one-touch access to current conditions and local forecast info.

(It also works on more pedestrian mobile devices)

I kinda knew this was coming and it's great to see it finally in the wild. Nice job, guys!

Via: simpleweather blog

From the land of cheesesteaks (boy, do I miss cheesesteaks since moving to Seattle) comes SimpleWeather. Taking the Google-ish approach to current conditions and forecasts, the site is amazingly fast and highly readable in all browsers. Just input your ZIP code or location (it's world-savvy) and get your weather stats fix.

If you are a Twitter fan, you can follow your closest city (they explain everything here).

If you do check them out, be sure to poke them for an iPhone-friendly page. Right now, i.wund.com is kicking their butts with their mobile CSS/layout.

I had time over the TG break to get the sensors "roughed in". I think I've found as optimal of a position as I'm going to for the outdoor temperature/humidity sensors and the anemometer is going to be inaccurate anywhere I put it (unless someone wants to foot the bill for getting it above the tree line and then getting the signal to the unit somehow), but I setup the tripod anyway. The rain gauge was also tricky since we have so many trees and need as much open ground unobstructed due to the dog. It registered a fairly correct amount (when compared to the Lynnwood official data) so I'm going to make it a permanent fixture (until we replace the deck, at least).

I'm going to let the whole thing run a week or two before getting it hooked up to the network and letting wx200d collect to it's silicon-coated heart's content.

From the announcement:

Tropical Storm Yutu, the second named storm of the Pacific cyclone season, formed west of Guam to the south of Japan and may become a typhoon, according to an advisory from the U.S. Joint Navy Typhoon Warning Center.

You can follow the progresshere.

We may be in store for an early tropical storm. Found this waiting for me this morning:

A NON-TROPICAL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...CENTERED ABOUT 175 MILES EAST
OF JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA AND ABOUT 160 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF
CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA...HAS BEEN MOVING SLOWLY WESTWARD AT 5
TO 10 MPH. THE LOW IS PRODUCING GALE-FORCE WINDS NEAR THE COASTS
OF NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTH CAROLINA...GEORGIA AND NORTHEASTERN
FLORIDA. THIS SYSTEM HAS CHANGED LITTLE SINCE THIS EVENING...AND
NO SIGNIFICANT STRENGTHENING IS EXPECTED. THE LOW IS BEING
MONITORED FOR SIGNS OF TROPICAL OR SUBTROPICAL CYCLONE
DEVELOPMENT...AND AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT
IS SCHEDULE TO INVESTIGATE THE SYSTEM TOMORROW MORNING.

INTERESTS ALONG THE COAST OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES SHOULD
MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICES. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS SYSTEM CAN ALSO BE FOUND
IN HIGH SEAS FORECASTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...
UNDER AWIPS HEADER NFDHSFAT1 AND WMO HEADER FZNT01 KWBC.

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FORECASTER BROWN

Just received the yearly reminder from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) that the 2007 season is about to begin (May 15: Pacific, June 1: Atlantic). I've updated the necessary data points for MegaTrack and may even get a new version out this year.

Salient portion of notification msg and signup info below...

From: mail-storm@seahorse.nhc.noaa.gov
Subject: Welcome to the NHC Advisory Mailing List - 2007
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:15:00 AM EDT

Hello again, and welcome to the National Hurricane Center Automated Advisory Email Service. In preparation for the start of the 2007 Hurricane Season, we will be resuming our Automated Advisory Email Service shortly. The East Pacific season begins May 15th and the Atlantic season begins June 1st.

If you were subscribed last season and no longer wish to receive the advisory email, please follow the unsubscribe instructions at the end of this message or visit the NHC website at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/signup.shtml

There is no need to resubscribe if you wish to continue receiving the advisories.

More bark than bite, but it was a pain to shovel. Thankfully, I had to work from home and could not do much, leaving the hard stuff for the fam *:^)

Check out weather.com's new interactive weather map. It's kinda like Google Maps for weather nuts.

I'll add it as a link to the weather site later today.

This may be the only evidence we had snow this season.

Right after this (you can see the patch of blue sky), the whole sky cleared and the snow was gone soon after... Pix still on the way.

It snowed!!! (well, kinda). More pix once I get them uploaded to flickr. I've also got another video coming.

Tropical Depression TWO looks like it's going to make things wet on the east coast and should be close enough and powerful enough (tropical storm strength only) to cause some wet, humid weather for PA/NJ in about three days or so. Right now, it's about 200 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, NC. Maximum winds, so far, are around 35 mph.

You can follow it's progress at MegaTrack for the Web, right here on RDN, and view the official advisory over at the NHC Tropical Prediction Center site.