The National Weather Service (NWS) this week released a new prototype to inspire users of the cloud service Twitter to report their current weather conditions at their location. Using geocoding and hash tags, the NWS is asking for people to try this new service while they collect information to see how it could change storm reporting and citizen weather observations.

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Hello everyone! Tonight I just finished a module on my development server that allows radar information for the state of Pennsylvania to be pushed over the Jabber/XMPP protocol using multi-user chat rooms. This protocol allows users to receive radar data through the Internet.

Currently we are using the Unidata LDM system to retrieve the NOAAPORT NEXRAD data and we are rebroadcasting it through the Jabber protocol.

Here is a sample screenshot of a chat room getting radar data pushed to it from three radar sites in Pennsylvania:

SpotterChat is a IM service written by a storm chaser (Scott B.) to allow chasers and non-chasers to communicate about storms, forecasting, and various other weather topics using the Jabber chat service. I have written a how-to for using the SpotterChat service with the MobileChat application on the iPhone.

You can see more details on SpotterChat by visiting http://www.spotterchat.org or find the how-to at http://www.spotterchat.org/?p=56.

Thank you Scott for publishing the how-to for using SpotterChat with the MobileChat application!

Thanks,
Christopher Zenzel

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