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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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Google Earth updates radar data

March 20, 2008

A few months back, Google added near-real time weather data, which included radars.  Today, they’ve added coverage for a few more areas: Europe Canada Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico I really like the radars in Google Earth.  Not only are they useful, but they’re pretty cool.  They float a few miles above the  surface of the [...]

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Finally – a real sky when you’re in Google Earth

November 8, 2007

For a while now, people have been trying to come up with a good way to be able to see the sky in Google Earth — not the night sky, but the clouds. Over the Google Earth Blog, some interesting workarounds have been used, but they weren’t ideal. However, with the new weather layer, it’s [...]

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New weather layer in Google Earth

November 8, 2007

It’s about time!  Google has finally added a weather layer to Google Earth.  The layer consists of three sub-layers: Clouds Radar Conditions and Forecasts Complete details can be found in a nice write-up in the Google Earth Blog.

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Great collection of storm tracking and weather tools for Google Earth

August 16, 2007

Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has posted a great round-up of the best weather-related tools for Google Earth. The best piece of this post is the huge weather and storm tracking tools collection network link.  It contains a handful of folders with various kinds of data, which includes: two global hurricane tracking tools [...]

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Cool new real-time lightning animation for GE

June 14, 2007

GuiWeather has just released a network link that shows current lightning strikes (well, within a few minutes old) around the world, in the form a slick 30 minute time-animated network link. Google Earth Blog has the details.

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