My World Weather Play Toy
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:20 am
After revising my hiking weather website, I thought it would be nice to have a World Weather website.
I have created a subdomain just for showing current activity and 5 day forecasts for the World, the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. These are then broken down into the countries within these regions. I have satellite maps for the entire World. Only one problem with the satellite maps - have you ever flattened a globe? You get fragmentation! The closer you get to the Polar Regions the more fragmentation. Europe and the USA are not fragmented.
I tracked down an entire set of forecasts and satellite maps from CNN that are really nice and also tracked down a set from Weather.com. You will find these both on CNN Maps. Weather.com has forecast maps for individual countries and regions. Canada and the USA have been split into regions. So I created Region Maps to display the individual countries and regions.
I have put blank space into my tables separating the Americas from Europe and Asia. I have tested on both my Windows XP, my Windows 7, my Linux, Internet Explorer 8,
Firefox, and Google Chrome. The only problem that I am running into is cosmetic with Google Chrome. My blank space separators show up as empty rectangles which I can live with for the time being.
Try out My World Weather Play Toy. Comments will be appreciated.
I hope you enjoy my two weather websites.
Marty
I have created a subdomain just for showing current activity and 5 day forecasts for the World, the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. These are then broken down into the countries within these regions. I have satellite maps for the entire World. Only one problem with the satellite maps - have you ever flattened a globe? You get fragmentation! The closer you get to the Polar Regions the more fragmentation. Europe and the USA are not fragmented.
I tracked down an entire set of forecasts and satellite maps from CNN that are really nice and also tracked down a set from Weather.com. You will find these both on CNN Maps. Weather.com has forecast maps for individual countries and regions. Canada and the USA have been split into regions. So I created Region Maps to display the individual countries and regions.
I have put blank space into my tables separating the Americas from Europe and Asia. I have tested on both my Windows XP, my Windows 7, my Linux, Internet Explorer 8,
Firefox, and Google Chrome. The only problem that I am running into is cosmetic with Google Chrome. My blank space separators show up as empty rectangles which I can live with for the time being.
Try out My World Weather Play Toy. Comments will be appreciated.
I hope you enjoy my two weather websites.
Marty