http://ibiseye.com
A monster site created by the dynamic duo of Maurice Tamman and Charlie Szymanski at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. It’s filled with deep historical data, Google maps and offers an full-screen experience.
http://stormadvisory.org
A clean, basic Google map mashup of storms, their strengths and paths. It gets the job done.
http://www.stormpulse.com
This is just a beautiful site all around. Beyond it’s aesthetic appeal, it’s brilliantly engineered and doesn’t use Google maps. Nor Yahoo maps. Nor Microsoft Live Vista Longhorn Maps (or whatever they’re calling it now). All the visual and storm data is automated from NASA and NOAA. There’s even (semi) live clouds formations! It’s just remarkable.
Full disclosure: Storm Pulse is a side project of programming ninja, Matt Wensing (half of the Storm Pulse team), who is now a coworker at my day job and quite a dope g if I do say so myself.
http://www.wunderground.com
Not nearly as pretty as Storm Pulse but the grandfather and an immense hive of information. Especially Jeff Master’s weather blog.
Am I missing any awesomeness in other sites out there? Please let me know in the comments!
August 15, 2007 at 5:41 am
Thanks for the mention, Will! I like the screenshot (visual) comparison. Now if only I really were a programming ninja. *sigh*
August 15, 2007 at 9:30 am
Jeff Masters is THE source for hurricane info on the net. The guy knows more about them and gives more detailed, accurate information than anyone out there. Best yet, he does it without the hyperbole found in broadcast news. Beware of the comments on his blog. They think they know as much as Masters and think they can see the beginnings of a massive, earth-killing hurricane in a thunderstorm 3 miles off the coastline. If you realize they are pretty much always wrong, it makes for entertaining reading.
August 15, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Did the famous Journerdism traffic bump take down stormadvisory.org? It’s been down all day.
I like to check outthe NHC’s own site, primarily because I find the all-caps forecast discussions VERY SOOTHING AND NOT EVEN THE SLIGHTEST BIT ALARMING.
August 16, 2007 at 5:09 am
I am amazed at how much thought was put into the IBISEYE website and interface and they even got the presentation of spatial data pretty much correct. They obviously were trying to build a useful tool for people to use. Have not tried the others out yet, lookng forward to it.
Thanks for the links.
Aaron W. VanWieren
http://www.gisdevcafe.com
August 17, 2007 at 7:26 pm
What is this? What passes as a watering hole among modern-day journo. Matt, I love your site and wouldn’t mind sharing a real beer or three sometime to talk about some of the choices you made.
Cheers,
Mo