Cell Phone Weather Data Website

[Greg Blumberg]

A while back a chasing friend of mine got the Dare cell phone. The more we spent time chasing using the phone for weather data, the more I realized that downloading whole web pages such as SPC and NWS Radar was very inefficient when the only information we needed was a single graphic.

For the past couple of months I've been in the process of creating a light-weight web page that can be accessed through any touchscreen phone (iPhone, Blackberry Storm, Dare,...etc.) or web browser. As of now, you can access SPC Outlooks, Base Reflectivity and Storm Relative Velocity radar loops (that page self-reloads every minute or so), Oklahoma Mesonet data, still visible satellite images, surface plots, and SPC Mesoanalysis graphics. I'm hoping to include some form of watch/warning/mesoscale discussion update portion and radiosonde Skew-T diagrams as two other forms of data on the site in the near future.

Now that I'm happy with how it's become so far, I've decided to release the site to the Stormtrack population. Please let me know of any bugs that you come across (however I'm pretty sure there aren't any.)

Here is the link: http://www.carpedieming.com/weatherlink.php

Enjoy!

 

[Bryan Stokes]

Wow -- this is sweet! Thanks!!!

Bryan

 

[Walt VanRheen]

Very cool. Nice job. Thanks

Walt

 

[AlDanks]

Nice. I added it to my Blackjack favorites.

FWIW - I've been using a small set of pages designed to load fast.

Analysis - http://www.fhnwrestling.com/mobileanalysis.htm
Radar - http://www.fhnwrestling.com/mobile.htm
Radar - KOT (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas) http://www.fhnwrestling.com/mobilekot.htm
Satellite - http://www.fhnwrestling.com/mobilesat.htm

I also use Wunderground mobile - http://m.wund.com/

I really like your surface plots and velocity radar. I'll look to add a set of those to my pages as well. We can effectively back each other up in case one site is not accessible.