Re: Weather software

[Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Hunter wrote:
> looking for some software that will show what the weather's doing,
> has been doing, and may soon do ... maybe something that reads the
> Met.Office website, keeps copies of the radar maps for the last month
> or two (as against the last thirteen every half-hour snap-shots
> normally available), and uses them to play a movie, continuously ...
> plus plots of temperature etc, vs the norm, and so-on ... on a
> dedicated display, perhaps in the parlour, and to help with planning
> the day (stay in, do some gardening, get the camera out, go for a
> walk on the hills, walk 'round the village ... whatever) ... don't
> suppose there's anything that does this already ???
>

You can do a fair amount of that with Weather Display running in
stationless mode and fetching METAR data off the net I think (not sure
if the data is available free though). WD can also fetch webcam images
(or a weather map...). Not sure about video though. Weather Display Live
gives you a very nice flash based gui.

Whatever happened to the UK Weather Channel anyway?

Jim