The Daily Ping

FROM: Robert
DATE: Sunday January 7, 2001 -- 2:08:11AM

Those are all well and good but they'll never beat sticking your head out a window.

FROM: Terry Murphy
DATE: Sunday January 7, 2001 -- 2:43:52AM

Well, weather sites (thanks for the info, Ryan!) are particularly useful for travel, so you know if you have to worry about your flight being cancelled and so forth; you can't stick your head out 2000 miles.

And if you live in a place such as Chicago which has harsh and unpredictable weather, you really do need to keep on top of the weather forecasts, so you can plan around it. I don't check weather except for travel, as I live in Oregon, and do not want screen burn-in with the text "lo 35, hi 45, partly cloudy, 50% chance of rain", but I certainly can understand that forecasts are very important in places with more temperamental weather.

FROM: Monica
DATE: Thursday January 11, 2001 -- 1:02:48PM

If you're a weather-weenie, check out THESE pages:
http://www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/index.html
(most of the stuff is local-ish, though)
and if you'd like to see some of the nifty research we do with satellites, check out http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/data.html

FROM: Robert
DATE: Thursday January 11, 2001 -- 7:32:37PM

Damn you, Weather Weenie!!! Damn you to your sunshine-y hell!!!

FROM: rsteinhauer@usfamily.net
DATE: Wednesday March 28, 2001 -- 7:24:41PM

you have to like(once you try it)arl'sREADY CURRENT METOEROLOGY WEBSITE.couple READY withIWIN'S local forecasting discussions and your off to a good synoptic start!