A few months ago I introduced Weather Listen to the teamWeather platform. Weather Listen was a program I wrote in Microsoft .NET to retrive weather information on the Internet based on Web Site headers and download data when it was new or updated and allow the data to be processed by sub-programs or processes. Weather Listen has since been “dead” but I am considering revisiting the project since reliable weather information is hard to find on the Internet that is “push” based.

Weather Listen had some great features and sample configuration files including NEXRAD Level III data for three of the data products provided by NOAAPORT. It also had a way to download and generate forecasts for each weather zone in a state using data from the National Weather Service.

I think it is time I revisit this project and bring it to the community for processing weather information on the Internet. Some ideas I had was to make this for more than just HTTP data and also bring data from FTP servers and other data servers on the Internet. I also was thinking of integrating Web Services with the program and some database-driven features.

Weather Listen was a multi-threaded client for recieving weather data and I also think I need to add more time intervals since data can update faster and slower than the intervals I have set. Some of the intervals I need to make sure don’t overload servers by user error.

teamWeather won’t become a data provider, but will provide the programs to bring weather information to a user’s computer without depending on a satellite setup.

Weather Listen is not avaliable yet, but I plan to release some code soon that shows the power of some of the features implemented to simulate a “push” weather data system while it “pulls” the data. I will post some screenshots and more over the next few weeks as development progresses.

Jose, Bill, and I have successfully written the GIS Data module into the iNoaaport/Noaaport Broadcast Software Processor (NBSP) and I am waiting to test the data at home on my personal weather server. We hope to see some live data coming in by this next week. I am ahead in most of my classes and just need to wait for my server to be enabled for data retrieval of satellite imagery.

I will post some screenshots when I have the server live and some uses of the GIS data. Keep tuned to teamWeather for more information about iNoaaport GIS and all other teamWeather information.

Hello everyone! I just wanted to inform everyone of the current status of GOES Imagery over iNoaaport. I have been working with the University of Puerto Rico the past few weeks on building images for their data distribution network for processing and compositing both the east and west coast images of satellite information to make one central map for the United States. Today I am happy to announce that there is sample source code and images available on iNoaaport’s status tracking web site which is accessible through http://www.inoaaport.net.

These images are some samples that were taken from the live data feeds earlier and processed into nice maps with boundaries for both the United States and World. Geographical data was from both the APRS and National Weather Service’s GIS projects.

We hope you enjoy these sample images and we look forward to seeing more people help out on iNoaaport and contribute to iNoaaport to help out. Some things iNoaaport is looking for is data mirrors, people with NOAAPORT data access and also other GIS-related technologies.

We are proud to announce that two of our applications were released this past week to the iTunes App Store.

Weather Plus for the United States version 1.0.5 has been released with new features such as enhanced radar and advisories, optional lightning data (requires a subscription from AllisonHouse and use of the GRLevelX place file), and storm tracks. This new version of Weather Plus for the United States also corrects some location-based issues and we believe it is the best build ever.

Weather Camera Map 1.5 has now been released as Weather Personal 1.6 with various bug fixes and new features. This new application called Weather Personal allows users to access weather cameras and weather stations that are user-contributed in a specified area. The GPS now doesn’t require Reverse Geocoding to find a location and uses the user’s latitude and longitude directly fixing many location issues.

We would like to thank these data sources for supplying information for our weather programs:

• National Weather Service
• GRLevelXMods (for Free Storm Track information)
• Weather Underground (Data for non-commerical use in the Applications)

We would also like to remind users that use Weather Plus for the United States that they must have a subscription to AllisonHouse for Lightning information and data. Those without a subscription are unable to get lightning data in the application.

Hi everyone,

The greatness of having a  weather camera is to protect your property also. We are not posting pictures of who did it, but between 8:12 and 8:22 am this morning we have pictures of a car who hit our fence on the front of our property and the person(s) involved are wanted and will be found.

Here are some snapshots from the fence being hit:

After we saw this happen I took a drive down the road and found fresh skidmarks going into a driveway between x Road and y Road in the township. These skidmarks where consistant with the marks in our area and a person was out in the road cleaning them up as I came back from where I was going.

Thanks,

Christopher Zenzel

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