Monday, August 31, 2009

Weather Web sites should know no borders


To recap Zoe's post on weather sites: Why is it that weather data ends at the US border?! It's hurricane and typhoon season, friends. The LA Times reports that sizeable Hurricane Jimena is intensifying, with max sustained winds at 145 mph. It's already affecting Texas and will come to Arizona and New Mexico as well. Weather Underground is border-agnostic and shows the weather data beyond the US/Mexico border, while StormPulse does not. It's called the World Wide Web for a reason - looking at global issues such as weather within political borders is worse than pointless.

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