The Red Brick Times

The National Weather Service is much improved online. Their web site has an amazing amount of information graphically presented, using maps and colors. For example, go to the NOAA National Weather Service home page to see a national map coding alerts and warnings. Click on the map for your location (ie: Northern Ohio) to zoom in to your area. Then click on the area you want to see (ie: Elyria) to get the bird's-eye lowdown on conditions and forecasts. All the little charts inside that page also expand to show details of radar, snow cover, rainfall amounts, wind direction and speed, wave heights, temperatures, humidy, "feels like" temperatures, cloud cover and more.

Check out the area at the bottom left titled "National Digital Forecast Database". Click one. The "graphical forecast" appears. Now move the mouse pointer over any box in the table to the left of the map picture. If you leave the pointer there for a few seconds, the map changes to show the data from the table. If you scroll over the map, it pops up forecasts for the reporting stations. The table also has buttons to choose forward or backward in time by 12-hour increments. It clearly and quickly shows a whole bunch of information.

To an information junkie like me, this is a good example of your tax dollars at work. I have the site bookmarked for quick reference.
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