Weather Radar Goes Miniature

quackking writes "As reported today in the Boston Globe, the NSF has committed at least $17M to build out a new network of miniature (at least in comparison with today's monsters) weather radars. This is to radar what Beowulf clusters are to the mainframe; the scientists at U Mass Amherst project that eventually a weather radar node will be deployable for under $20K! Now to figure out how to get real-time access to this mesh of sensors and create a really cool screensaver..."

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Don't we already have the equivalent?

[BoomerSooner]

Go to Weather.com and type in your zip code, then from there click map in motion. Voila. They offer satelite, doppler, and forcasting.

Save some money and use what's out there.

weather screen saver

[hoggoth]

> Now to figure out how to get real-time access to this mesh of sensors and create a really cool screensaver..."

Hey that's a really cool idea! With a few million dollars to roll out the sensors and some Uber-hacking to gain access to them we could do something like this! Wow...