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Weather Service Becoming More Tech Friendly

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-hope-your-servers-are-weatherproofed dept.

awgy writes "The National Weather Service recently began offering XML/RSS feeds of their alerts, observations, and forecasts. Now the Tulsa, OK Forecast Office is experimenting with offering forecast files for Google Earth. It looks like the National Weather Service is quickly becoming one of the most geek-friendly government agencies."

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  1. How is this geek-friendly? by KitesWorld · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was under the impression that most of us never go outside. Why the hell would we need to know what the weather's like? ;-)

    1. Re:How is this geek-friendly? by Ranger · · Score: 3, Funny

      I was under the impression that most of us never go outside. Why the hell would we need to know what the weather's like? ;-)

      That pizza delivery boy needs drivable roads to get to your place.

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  2. Mother Nature Needs a Blog by Nova+Express · · Score: 5, Funny
    Maybe what the National Weather Service neds to do to make themselves more techn friendly is give Mother Nature Herself a blog:

    Mood: Sunny.

    Can't wait until the fall harvest season arrives; all this grain makes me feel hot and a trim will be great!

    I hate those new sat photos they released yesterday. They make me look fat.

    I wonder what Mars is doing. We were, like, so totally close during perihelion, but then he drifted away. Men.

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  3. I guess... by GypC · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... you don't know any meteorologists, but...

    It looks like the National Weather Service is quickly becoming one of the most geek-friendly government agencies.

    That's because they are geeks.

  4. Re:Poster reveals his youth? by poopdeville · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, he lives up to his namesake.

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  5. Re:Basically private weather trying to shut off go by moviepig.com · · Score: 4, Funny
    To stop government form releasing weather data the companies are pushing a bill in the senate sponsored by rep Santorum...

    ...because the data could be misused by those who don't understand it. Likewise, a ban's proposed to stop US consumers from importing Canadian weather-data, which might be improperly manufactured or labeled...

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  6. Re:Basically private weather trying to shut off go by camusflage · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just don't go to the first Google link for Senator Santorum! :)

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