Weather app suggestions? - The Chainlink2024-03-29T11:06:31Zhttps://thechainlink.org/forum/topics/weather-app-suggestions?feed=yes&xn_auth=noI scoured the above links and…tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-11:2211490:Comment:6454402013-02-11T06:12:41.866ZAndrew Bednohttps://thechainlink.org/profile/AndrewBedno
<p>I scoured the above links and <strong><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/VL1uW" target="_blank">plotted the Chicago lakefront weather stations</a></strong>. There're only nine, and half of them have been out for weeks. Foster, Montrose, North, Oak, all down.</p>
<p>Only Waukeegan, offshore Devon, Northerly Island and Calumet were reporting.</p>
<p>So that may be it for lakefront. Unless there's a dark mass of Oregon Scientific / Arduino hobbyists.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Anyone got…</span></p>
<p>I scoured the above links and <strong><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/VL1uW" target="_blank">plotted the Chicago lakefront weather stations</a></strong>. There're only nine, and half of them have been out for weeks. Foster, Montrose, North, Oak, all down.</p>
<p>Only Waukeegan, offshore Devon, Northerly Island and Calumet were reporting.</p>
<p>So that may be it for lakefront. Unless there's a dark mass of Oregon Scientific / Arduino hobbyists.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Anyone got thoughts on ground station feeds? <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/qhUPz" target="_blank">Google weather layer</a> links to a dozen or so through weather.com, but I've gotta believe the root source is public.</span></p>
<p></p> These links are awesome. Tha…tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-09:2211490:Comment:6452412013-02-09T20:18:19.931ZJoe Studer 8.0 mihttps://thechainlink.org/profile/Joe80
<p>These links are awesome. Thanks!<br></br> <br></br> <cite>Rich Svehla said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/weather-app-suggestions?x=1&id=2211490%3ATopic%3A643948&page=2#2211490Comment645231"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Here is the NOAA offshore Chicago lakefront data page, real time and 24 hour history. Wind speed and direction, wind gusts, and air temp. This reporting station rarely goes offline.…</p>
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<p>These links are awesome. Thanks!<br/> <br/> <cite>Rich Svehla said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/weather-app-suggestions?x=1&id=2211490%3ATopic%3A643948&page=2#2211490Comment645231"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Here is the NOAA offshore Chicago lakefront data page, real time and 24 hour history. Wind speed and direction, wind gusts, and air temp. This reporting station rarely goes offline.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chii2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chii2</a></p>
<p>(You multiply windspeed in knots by 1.1 to get miles per hour)</p>
<p>The Northerly Island data is often a 'no data' offline station but here it is too.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=cnii2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=cnii2</a></p>
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</blockquote> Hey Rich,
So I checked out yo…tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-09:2211490:Comment:6450722013-02-09T17:15:30.220ZJoe Guzzardohttps://thechainlink.org/profile/JoeGuzzardo
<p>Hey Rich,</p>
<p>So I checked out your link and if I'm reading it correctly, the station location at 42.000 N 87.500 W is in Lake Michigan about 4 miles offshore from Devon Ave and the monitoring equipment is about 70 feet above the water. So that has got to be a structure visible from the lakefront, particularly if you're viewing it from a high rise building along the shore, north of Foster, but I can't see it.</p>
<p>Those links are really cool, thanks.</p>
<p><br></br> <br></br> <cite>Rich Svehla…</cite></p>
<p>Hey Rich,</p>
<p>So I checked out your link and if I'm reading it correctly, the station location at 42.000 N 87.500 W is in Lake Michigan about 4 miles offshore from Devon Ave and the monitoring equipment is about 70 feet above the water. So that has got to be a structure visible from the lakefront, particularly if you're viewing it from a high rise building along the shore, north of Foster, but I can't see it.</p>
<p>Those links are really cool, thanks.</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Rich Svehla said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/weather-app-suggestions?commentId=2211490%3AComment%3A645231&xg_source=msg_com_forum#2211490Comment645231"><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Here is the NOAA offshore Chicago lakefront data page, real time and 24 hour history. Wind speed and direction, wind gusts, and air temp. This reporting station rarely goes offline.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chii2" target="_blank">http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chii2</a></p>
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</blockquote> And here is the nearshore mar…tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-09:2211490:Comment:6450712013-02-09T16:51:44.307ZRich Svehlahttps://thechainlink.org/profile/RichSvehla
<p>And here is the nearshore marine two-day forecast.</p>
<p><a href="http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/marine/near_shore/lm/lmz741.txt" target="_blank">http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/marine/near_shore/lm/lmz741.txt</a></p>
<p>Again, <span>multiply windspeed in knots by 1.1 to get miles per hour. </span></p>
<p>Chainlink might consider a lakefront weather page linked to the nearshore forecast, together with the realtime offshore data. I think NOAA has the most accurate data…</p>
<p>And here is the nearshore marine two-day forecast.</p>
<p><a href="http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/marine/near_shore/lm/lmz741.txt" target="_blank">http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/marine/near_shore/lm/lmz741.txt</a></p>
<p>Again, <span>multiply windspeed in knots by 1.1 to get miles per hour. </span></p>
<p>Chainlink might consider a lakefront weather page linked to the nearshore forecast, together with the realtime offshore data. I think NOAA has the most accurate data and most accurate lakefront forecasting.</p> Here is the NOAA offshore Chi…tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-09:2211490:Comment:6452312013-02-09T16:27:15.407ZRich Svehlahttps://thechainlink.org/profile/RichSvehla
<p>Here is the NOAA offshore Chicago lakefront data page, real time and 24 hour history. Wind speed and direction, wind gusts, and air temp. This reporting station rarely goes offline.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chii2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chii2</a></p>
<p>(You multiply windspeed in knots by 1.1 to get miles per hour)</p>
<p>The Northerly Island data is often a 'no data' offline station but here…</p>
<p>Here is the NOAA offshore Chicago lakefront data page, real time and 24 hour history. Wind speed and direction, wind gusts, and air temp. This reporting station rarely goes offline.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chii2" target="_blank">http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chii2</a></p>
<p>(You multiply windspeed in knots by 1.1 to get miles per hour)</p>
<p>The Northerly Island data is often a 'no data' offline station but here it is too.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=cnii2" target="_blank">http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=cnii2</a></p> It doesn't have to be complex…tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-08:2211490:Comment:6450212013-02-08T19:12:01.912ZMark Pottshttps://thechainlink.org/profile/MarkPotts
<p>It doesn't have to be complex, although utilizing the localized weather reports available sounds really cool, but it would be nice to have a weather report linked to each event posted.</p>
<p>The report can be updated as forecasts are presented, perhaps listed with a % of accuracy that gradually increases as the day grows nearer (i bet the weather services present this info)... and for WAY distant stuff averages can be presented just to give a general idea of what to expect.</p>
<p>It would…</p>
<p>It doesn't have to be complex, although utilizing the localized weather reports available sounds really cool, but it would be nice to have a weather report linked to each event posted.</p>
<p>The report can be updated as forecasts are presented, perhaps listed with a % of accuracy that gradually increases as the day grows nearer (i bet the weather services present this info)... and for WAY distant stuff averages can be presented just to give a general idea of what to expect.</p>
<p>It would also be nice if this info was stored for past events, just to have some data to reference in the future.</p>
<p>A current (animated preferably) overhead weather map of the area would be really cool too, especially if this map linked into a zoomable/world map something how google maps does it.</p>
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<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Melissa said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/weather-app-suggestions?utm_source=Feb+7%2C+2013&utm_campaign=feb+8th&utm_medium=email&id=2211490%3ATopic%3A643948&page=1#2211490Comment644154"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>If The Chainlink were to incorporate a feature for information on weather or road conditions, what would you want it to look like or do? (There have been a few requests in the past.) </p>
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</blockquote> Whoa. That's amazing. Exact…tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-08:2211490:Comment:6448642013-02-08T18:24:46.875ZAndrew Bednohttps://thechainlink.org/profile/AndrewBedno
<p>Whoa. That's amazing. Exactly what this thread asked for. Go see: <a href="http://lkfrnt.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lkfrnt.com</a></p>
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<p>(@flores: You may want to use the hash tag AND the activetranslft user. The user doesn't always use the hash tag. You can do an or search in the rss/xml url, something like #chiftp%20OR%20from:activetranslft)</p>
<p>I'm gonna have to study the <a href="http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">data…</a></p>
<p>Whoa. That's amazing. Exactly what this thread asked for. Go see: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lkfrnt.com" target="_blank">http://lkfrnt.com</a></p>
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<p>(@flores: You may want to use the hash tag AND the activetranslft user. The user doesn't always use the hash tag. You can do an or search in the rss/xml url, something like #chiftp%20OR%20from:activetranslft)</p>
<p>I'm gonna have to study the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/" target="_blank">data buoys</a> thing.</p> Shameless plug for a mobile w…tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-08:2211490:Comment:6450942013-02-08T18:16:13.070Zfloreshttps://thechainlink.org/profile/GermanFlores
<p>Shameless plug for a mobile web app I built when I was commuting on the CHILFT, it pulls data from a buoy on the lake and tweets with the #CHILFT <a href="http://lkfrnt.com/" target="_blank">lkfrnt.com</a></p>
<p>Shameless plug for a mobile web app I built when I was commuting on the CHILFT, it pulls data from a buoy on the lake and tweets with the #CHILFT <a href="http://lkfrnt.com/" target="_blank">lkfrnt.com</a></p> I use the Gene App. I check m…tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-08:2211490:Comment:6448772013-02-08T01:59:59.191ZGene Tennerhttps://thechainlink.org/profile/GeneTenner
<p>I use the Gene App. I check my outdoor thermometer and look out the window to see how much the trees are shaking and what the street looks like. I have yet to miss a bike commute due to weather.</p>
<p>I use the Gene App. I check my outdoor thermometer and look out the window to see how much the trees are shaking and what the street looks like. I have yet to miss a bike commute due to weather.</p> WGN has a good app.tag:thechainlink.org,2013-02-07:2211490:Comment:6447572013-02-07T22:29:21.641ZMike Zumwalthttps://thechainlink.org/profile/MikeZumwalt
<p>WGN has a good app.</p>
<p>WGN has a good app.</p>