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An awful lot of people use the m. subdomain. For example http://www.weatherunderground.com has http://m.wund.com/.

I made http://m.freeinternetpress.com for my mobile users (namely me). It's great for WML enabled browsers. I haven't really used it in a while, since I have my android now. The full size page loads fine on it, and the users haven't asked for a light version. I suspect if the page is too heavy, they go for the RSS feeds, since they contain the same content.

Kind of wondering what the dew point is in dry places in Oz, when the wind is blowing (day time).

You gave

You probably want somewhere like Bridgetown - which IS in Australia - last report was 89% humidity.

Compare and contrast with Warburton, also in Western Australia, which currently reports 4% humidty.

Kind of wondering what the dew point is in dry places in Oz, when the wind is blowing (day time).

You gave

You probably want somewhere like Bridgetown - which IS in Australia - last report was 89% humidity.

Compare and contrast with Warburton, also in Western Australia, which currently reports 4% humidty.

Ask, and you shall receive.

    The lowest humidity is:

http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweat her/getForecast?query=New+Zealand

Observed at: Dunedin Aerodrome Aws, New Zealand
Elevation: 3 ft / 1 m
Temperature: 78 F / 26 C
Humidity: 28%
Dew Point: 51 F / 10 C
Wind: 17 mph / 28 km/h / from the North
Wind Gust: -
Pressure: 29.65 in / 1004 hPa (Falling)

    And for good measure, their capital is:

    http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweat her/getForecast?query=Wellington%2C+New+Zealand

    [Partly Cloudy]
68 F / 20 C Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 56%
Dew Point: 52 F / 11 C
Wind: 29 mph / 46 km/h / 12.9 m/s from the North
Wind Gust: 44 mph / 70 km/h / 19.5 m/s
Pressure: 30.01 in / 1016 hPa

Ask, and you shall receive.

    The lowest humidity is:

http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweat her/getForecast?query=New+Zealand

Observed at: Dunedin Aerodrome Aws, New Zealand
Elevation: 3 ft / 1 m
Temperature: 78 F / 26 C
Humidity: 28%
Dew Point: 51 F / 10 C
Wind: 17 mph / 28 km/h / from the North
Wind Gust: -
Pressure: 29.65 in / 1004 hPa (Falling)

    And for good measure, their capital is:

    http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweat her/getForecast?query=Wellington%2C+New+Zealand

    [Partly Cloudy]
68 F / 20 C Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 56%
Dew Point: 52 F / 11 C
Wind: 29 mph / 46 km/h / 12.9 m/s from the North
Wind Gust: 44 mph / 70 km/h / 19.5 m/s
Pressure: 30.01 in / 1016 hPa

Now, I'm all for not buying more vehicle than necessary, but expecting the masses to convert to bicycle is not realistic. Sure, I'll pull the bike out for a trip to the convenience store, but I cannot commute to work without traversing a glaciated valley on a high-speed arterial; a bicycle commute would take 4 hours a day. I would very much like the option, but any home within a practical bicycle commute would subject my family to high crime rates and abysmal schools.

My wife's job (and less often, mine) frequently requires meeting people at the airport, so less than a mid-size sedan is simply not practical for us. I favored compact cars before, but now drive my wife's high-odometer cast-offs when they are too superannuated for her use, but not quite junkers yet.

They name it, same as ever. If you look at the history (http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/ is great) you'll see that named storms in December have happened maybe 1/3 the time in recent years.

Here's hoping Houston fares better than New Orleans.

Not likely...Rita is a Category 5 at this time, with sustained winds of 165 mph (gusts up to 200 mph).

At least Houston's not below sea level.

Don't worry...I see plenty of rain in your future...

They DID get hit with a hurricane! They didn't get hit by the eye (though it came fairly close), nor did they get the most powerful northeast quarter of the storm, but this made landfall as a Cat 4 storm. That's incredibly powerful, and hurricane force winds could be felt in New Orleans and across three states! So it did not 'pass safely by' I'm afraid.

Here's a tracking map of Hurricane Dennis, courtesy of the good folks over at Weather Underground.

Looks fairly safe (since Cape Canaveral is off the east coast of Florida), but I'm sure the boys over at NASA don't want to take any chances...

You can see the current predictions by each model at any given time here:
http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/trackin g/at200406_model.html

The NHC discussion of the model guidance for each storm is here, under 'discussion' for each storm:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

They explain why they're agreeing with or discounting each model in their overall forecasts.

Generally, it's difficult to find much prediction of hurricane tracks that doesn't come somehow from the NHC. This isn't because there aren't independent analysists, but because they try not to send mixed signals, which might lead to people not evacuating when they should. The raw information from the computer models is the closest you get to dissenting opinions, afiak.

It was rather cool and rainy around here today. Quite unseasonable.

How about an 802.11 weather station?

I'm just looking for something that sits outside my house, collects weather data and other such simple stuff, and relays that data back to a server to build a web page with or whatever.

I run a Davis VantagePro Weather station. It relays data from a sensor cluster up on my roof to a console in my computer room via 900MHz radio. Then Davis' WeatherLink software submists it to weatherunderground and to my own website.

Colder than the heart of an SCO executive.

Have a nice day.

Judging by this chart I'd say a whole lot of people were running their air conditioners today. Maybe that's it?

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There are standalone, automated weather stations in a few locations around the continent - AGO sites (Antarctic Geophysical Observatory - see the
weather at AGO-1). They have already solved the problem of how to build and power such things - propane - Hank Hill's favorite. You could use solar for the Summer to reduce fuel consumption, but in the end, you are burning stuff to make heat and electricity. At least fiber is passive.

And, yes, RTGs are illegal according to treaty. They used to use them in the 1970s (for automated weather stations), but the last one was removed over five years ago.