Posted on 08/12/2019 4:40:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
What if, wherever you’re living, working or traveling, you could receive an alert before it’s about to rain or snow and when the precipitation is about to end? And it’s pretty accurate, too?
ClimaCell, a fledgling weather technology company based in Boston, released a mobile app Monday that provides notifications for exact locations in more than 50 countries. It promises “street-by-street, minute-by-minute short-term forecasts."
The app leverages the company’s technology innovations, which are making waves in weather business industries.
ClimaCell, founded in 2015, has developed a global network of weather data that marries traditional observations of pressure, temperature, precipitation and wind with information drawn from wireless signals, satellites, connected cars, airplanes, street cameras, drones and other electronic sources. Millions of pieces of weather data can be derived from these technologies. It’s what the company describes as the “weather of things.”
This mix of data is fed into ClimaCell’s forecast models, operated in Boulder, Colo. The company created the NowCast model that gives highly specific, minute-by-minute forecasts out to six hours and a longer-term model, known as CBAM, that produces forecasts out to six days.
These models are designed to provide forecasts to help businesses solve problems in which “extra accuracy” is needed, according to Shimon Elkabetz, ClimaCell’s chief executive.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The article got me to thinking how long will it be before the smart wipers on automobiles report to a central server that it is raining at the automobile's location. This would be a HUGE distributed network of rain sensors all over the world.
The app is available on the AppStore for iOS devices, and an Android version is to be launched in September. The app is free and does not contain advertisements, but ClimaCell does plan to charge for certain features, such as notifications for precipitation beyond a certain time.
I just tried it for Northern CA add it said it will rain in December.
I wonder how people managed to live without such an app.
If only there were an app that could find the nearest toilet in a city. iToilet they could call it.
Or the iGOTTAGO.
Does it warn you to close your mouth before you look at the sky so you won’t drown?
Don’t need it. Got crows and ravens all around me.
The Dark Sky app does this pretty well also.
Wunderground used to be GREAT.
Local- from Govt, local, and private weather stations.
Past, present, and predictions by the hour.
But it has gone belly up, it seems.
I could look up other locations for when I wanted to go there, or for friends or relatives’ weather.
Or if I was away from home, I could check home for what was going on.
With maps of weather: wind, rain, etc. and it’s movement.
Can’t do that anymore.
Am I just incompetent, or have other folks seen the same thing? And if so, what is a replacement?
If only there were an app that could find the nearest toilet in a city
= = =
San Fran has one.
“Just Poop Right Here!”
I still get now, hourly, and 10 day
https://www.wunderground.com/hourly/us/co/cripple-creek/80813?cm_ven=localwx_hour
myPOTTY
When I was a little kid, I used to wonder how my mom knew it was going to rain the following day. She finally told me, that by listening to “Don McNeill’s Breakfast club”, which was broadcast from Chicago, the weather in that area would reach where we lived, the next day.
I have a window that does that.
And rank them, from best to worst!
*WARNING: Isolated rain on I-20 in Texas at mile marker 370!
*NEVER MIND: Jake from Mingus turned on his windshield washer controler!
At first, I always wonder if it’s raining or I’m just getting pissed on again.
*NEVER MIND: That's Jake's wife beating on the hood of his truck with a 10# sledge after he came home from the Mule Lip Bar in Mingus.
Fecestime.
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