The National Weather Service now provides
RSS feeds
of their
weather bulletins as well as updated imagery.
Here we are exploring automatic
data harvesting and data aggregation
by periodically (every hour or every 20 min)
extracting storm projection maps from the NOAA RSS feed and displaying
the strom projections, satellite and radar imagery on the same page.
These same ideas can be applied to harvesting and aggregating patient,
instructional or research information. (See for example
Genome harvesting at EMBL.)
This page will provide everyone with the latest in weather advisories (within the RSS content boxes below), storm tracks and satellite imagery. Our web-harvesting and aggregation tools update this information periodically and cache the images locally so that presentation is independent of internet traffic to NOAA and its mirrors.
3 day projectionNo active Eastern Pacific storms |
5 day projectionNo active Eastern Pacific storms |
TS ProjectionNo active Eastern Pacific storms |
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Gulf of
Mexico satellite animation
from the US Navy Fleet Numerical