All --
While the XML data feed is no doubt an enormous breakthrough for those of
you who want to process weather data yourselves, for lesser mortals and
mere weather nerds such as myself, the NWS gives you just about everything
you need at
http://www.srh.weather.gov, whence you can work your way down
to your local level using interactive maps.
When you have done this, have a look at some interactive links under the
radar and satellite displays over on the right. They differ from location
to location, but they contain fascinating information. I particularly
urge you to look at the Forecast discussion, where each shift of
forecasters talks about their anxieties concerning their forecasts. it was
here that I learned the wonderfully felicitous term, "least regret
forecast". I surmise that the LRF is that forecast you give when your
forecast is busted but you don't know what the dickens is going to happen.
Generally speaking you compromise between what you think is going to happen
and what you last said would happen so you don't look too stupid twice.
the LRF principle explains why when we the public start to notice a
forecast going bad, it seems always to go worse than the intermediate
forecast. So, for instance, if a big northeaster is working its way up the
cost, and the first NY forecast is for 3 inches and the second is for 6
inches, you can bet your snow boots that you will get over a foot.
The links offered by the ABQ office for Santa Fe include
Zone Area Forecast for Upper Rio Grande Valley, NM
Printable Forecast Text Only Forecast
Text Forecast (°C) About Point Forecasts
Hourly Weather Graph Digital/Tabular Forecast
Alternate Text Forecast Forecast Discussion
Albuquerque Home Page
Nearby Observations
Santa Fe Aprs
Everything on that page is a link, so before you reject it, try things out.
My favorite packager of weather info is the weather underground which can
be found at
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=87501
Actually that page is for Santa Fe, but by deleting stuff from the address,
you can work your way back up the hierarchy. Through Wunderground you can
get recent photos of local weather and access to the weather stations of
private individuals scattered around the Santa Fe area. It's free, unless
you would like your page without ads, in which case it will cost you 5
dollars a year.
If anybody wants more of this sort of info, don't hesitate to email me. I
am besotted with it.
NIck
Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
[hidden email]
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/ [hidden email]
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