[MR] Holy Hannah!

[Grey Goose]

Thank you Lady Gwendolyn -  these are good links.

The National Weather Service has set up a 'one-stop shopping' location for
all weather information. It is:

http://weather.gov

This goes directly to the all-hazards map, and you can link to nearly
everything the NWS has to offer.

Mind, this is NOT weather.com - that is the weather channel. They get
information from the NWS and repackage it.  They have the resources to make
it all pretty whereas we use your tax dollars to do the best we can to
protect lives and property with enhanced research and dedicated operational
personnel.  Actual forecasts come from the NWS, but TWC is under no
obligation to indicate where the information comes from.  Everything we (the
NWS) produces is in the public domain, available free to everyone.  I
personally think that this is a great value for your $3 per year in taxes.

Joanna Dionne
(aka Janina Krakowska, Baroness Storvik, but wearing her professional hat in
this email)



On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Janie B. <janielee at cox.net> wrote:

> As His Excellency Donal pointed out, the media gets tunnel vision and we
> only hear about the immediate threat.
>
> My mother's hobby (if you consider the amount of time she spends on this,
> it's a hobby) is to track hurricanes.  She hates the "we're all gonna DIE"
> mentality of the news media (Mom calls them the "Weather Ghouls"), so she
> gets all her information straight from the source...
>
> The main site:  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
>
> The parent site:  http://www.noaa.gov/
>
> I highly suggest bookmarking at least one of those.  Those five-day cones
> can be quite illuminating.
>
> In Service,
>
> Lady Gwendolyn Fitch
> (Janie B.)
>
>