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Google creates a more generic “Hurricane Season 2008″ layer

September 5, 2008

Either Google was listening to our suggestion, or it was just pretty obvious — they’ve replaced the “Gustav” layer with a more genric “Hurricane Season 2008″ layer, under which they list individual layers. The data isn’t overly comprehensive.  It’s essentially just a forecast track for each storm and any advisories that have been put out [...]

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New Gustav layer in Google Earth

September 1, 2008

Google has just added a new sub-layer to the “weather” layer titled “Gustav Data”.  This layer includes a variety of information about the storm, such as the latest advisories, webcams from around Louisiana and a forecast track.  Coupled with the existing weather layers (clouds, radar, etc), it makes for some useful information. As Google points [...]

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Track Fay using Google Maps

August 18, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay is going to make landfall in Florida shortly, and there are a few sites that have excellent Google Maps tracking tools. IBISEYE – The best looking one I’ve seen, with some cool semi-transparent overlays StormAdvisory – A fairly vanilla map, but with some solid data behind it. Weather Underground – A similar [...]

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