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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? ;-)

  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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