Changed back to Wunderground for the text forecast.
Changed to NOAA for the text forecast, and updated a broken coastal waters forecast link.
Added a link to the Portland NEXRAD radar.
Updated a bunch of broken links, removed the section on indices of meteorology pages at the bottom of the page.
Update the still and loop radars at the top of the page.
Update a bunch of links that were broken because Twister at Ohio State was not working. Added experimental Caribou snow map.
Updated links to U.S. medium to long-range forecast info.
Updated a bunch of bad links in the Marine Weather Information, Additional Information for Maine and New England, and Weather Forecasting Information sections.
Updated a bunch of bad links in the sections following the Marine info.
Added link to current Bar Harbor conditions as provided by RainWise.
Updated stale links for State Weather Summary, Surface Conditions, and ski information.
I've added a link to the NWS short term forecast for Northern and Downeast Maine.
I've updated broken links to Saturday and Sunday Weather Channel forecasts, and added the NWS discussion for Northern and Downeast Maine.
The computer system supporting www.jax.org and this weather page were upgraded this past weekend to a Sun UE450 running Solaris and Apache. Some of the scripts that generate the pages had to be modified to support the new environment. I've also modified the order in which servers are queried for the NWS forecast, so the format of the forecast may look a little different, but the information is unchanged.
Updated more broken links, updated the links to The Weather Channel's extended forecast maps, replaced the collection of model links with a single link to WeatherNet's model page.
Finally updated the outdated links into the Intellicast site and to Gary Gray's Millenium Weather site.
Updated links to other sources of tide information.
Added links to Gary Gray's Millenium Weather site under the forecasting section; also did some spring cleaning and fixed a bunch of broken links to:
Added the Offshore Waters Forecast including the waters from the Gulf of Maine to the Hague Line to the Marine Weather Information secion.
Added Vermont and New England WX forecast discussions following the existing Maine/New Hampshire discussion. With some of the large storms it's interesting to see what the various NWS offices are thinking.
Repaired some broken links (ski, marine forecasts) and removed links to sites no longer available (OWL, gopher Weather Machine).
The weather page has been moved out from under my account and into the general web server filesystem. This was precipitated by the move of my home directory, which created a situation that is a long, sad story of technical woe, the short of which being the pages could no longer be served as before. My apologies for the lack of notice regarding the move.
I think I've settled on images from WeatherPoint, WGME Channel 13, and UCAR for use in the page. I can't find any restrictions on using them. They are not updated as frequently as the old images (only hourly) and are lower resolution, however they seem fairly reliable and provide useful information.
I also changed the primary source for the text-based NWS forecast, as there is some question as to whether the Wunderground info is redistributable.
- Gregg
I've spent some time looking for radar and satellite images that do explicitly prohibit their reuse, and yow the pickin' is pretty slim; I'll be experimenting with several to see how reliable and timely the data are.
It is also interesting to note that, in the course of my search, I found widespread abuse of the Weather Channel and Intellicast sites, some so baldfaced as to put up stolen images and then claim to copyright them themselves!
- Gregg
Howdy folks,
You've mostly likely come here to find out what the heck happened to the radar and satellite images and movies. Here's the scoop.
This page has been a work in progress since long before there were commercial weather sources on the net, when all my info came from education institutions that didn't care about your using their images and data. Over time, as commercial weather sites slowly came to be the best resources for weather info, the sources for the page became almost exclusively commercial. After a coincidental lunchtime discussion on copyright issues on the web, it occurred to me that I should see what policies the sources I used for the images on my page had in place. The Weather Channel and CNN were my primary two sources, and both have explicit Terms of Use statements that prohibit the way I was using their materials (click the above links to see those Terms). So I have updated the page to use only those sources that, as best as I can tell, do not prohibit my using them, which leaves only the NWS forecast. I've pointed all the other links to the providers themselves.
My apologies for the inconvenience, but I have no interest in becoming the next mangled carcass coughed up by the legal mosh pit of Internet copyright litigation. The page continues to be a work in progress, and I will continue to search the web for freely available images and data.
Cheers! - Gregg