OK -- Call me late to the party...not sure how late, several years I think...and it's kinda embarrassing as "The Weatherman":
I just today discovered the National Weather Service "Point Forecast" feature/service, which allows you to click on a place -- any place -- on a Google Maps interface and a forecast for a couple-mile-wide zone is returned.
Maybe it's already been shared here...but it's so cool that I thought I'd take a chance of repeating something already known and post it anyway.
For example:
These Point Forecasts are generated automatically by a computer interpolating between human-mediated forecasts for specific points.
I came across it when looking at the weather forecast for Mt. Bachelor...and I wondered how/if they got a NWS forecast specific for Mt. B...? And then I saw that a forecast could be generated for a few miles north of Mt. B -- or anyplace else! Very cool!
These Point Forecasts -- via the clickable map -- are part of the forecast page you get when you enter a location (e.g., zip code, etc.) in the box near the top of this page: National Weather Service,
as shown below:
Once you're on the Map you can zoom out and pan around and click on it wherever you want a forecast -- you don't have to start in a particular location. Like, I could start at Bend and zoom, pan, zoom the map to Spencer Hot Springs if I wanted to...
In the past I interpolated in my head the weather forecast for favorite middle-of-nowhere spots in eastern Oregon by looking at the forecasts for Lakeview and Burns, OR and McDermitt, NV...but now I can let computers do the work for me!
I just today discovered the National Weather Service "Point Forecast" feature/service, which allows you to click on a place -- any place -- on a Google Maps interface and a forecast for a couple-mile-wide zone is returned.
Maybe it's already been shared here...but it's so cool that I thought I'd take a chance of repeating something already known and post it anyway.
For example:
These Point Forecasts are generated automatically by a computer interpolating between human-mediated forecasts for specific points.
I came across it when looking at the weather forecast for Mt. Bachelor...and I wondered how/if they got a NWS forecast specific for Mt. B...? And then I saw that a forecast could be generated for a few miles north of Mt. B -- or anyplace else! Very cool!
These Point Forecasts -- via the clickable map -- are part of the forecast page you get when you enter a location (e.g., zip code, etc.) in the box near the top of this page: National Weather Service,
as shown below:
Once you're on the Map you can zoom out and pan around and click on it wherever you want a forecast -- you don't have to start in a particular location. Like, I could start at Bend and zoom, pan, zoom the map to Spencer Hot Springs if I wanted to...
In the past I interpolated in my head the weather forecast for favorite middle-of-nowhere spots in eastern Oregon by looking at the forecasts for Lakeview and Burns, OR and McDermitt, NV...but now I can let computers do the work for me!
