Sky Watching Weather
If you need weather info that is more geared toward the amateur astronomer, check out the Clear Sky Clock Home Page.
This unique website extracts data from the Canadian Meteorological Centre. The CMC runs 3 computer weather simulations every 12 hours and generate images of future weather conditions across North America for cloud cover, transparency and seeing conditions. The Clear Sky Clock website extracts data from the CMC to generate a "Clear Sky Clock" for any particular location.
This is the Clear Sky Clock for Austin, Texas:
The above image is a running clock! If you hit refresh it will periodically update.
They even provide a small thumbnail image that is easier to fit on your website, it's just a little harder to read:
See the map below showing the latest CMC data with superimposed Clear Sky Clock locations.
If there isn't a location near you, you can even request that Clear Sky Clock be added.
For me it looks like there are a couple of holes in the sky above Texas finally after a week of flooding rain!
It's too bad you can't get a clock like this on your wrist!
Good Night!
This unique website extracts data from the Canadian Meteorological Centre. The CMC runs 3 computer weather simulations every 12 hours and generate images of future weather conditions across North America for cloud cover, transparency and seeing conditions. The Clear Sky Clock website extracts data from the CMC to generate a "Clear Sky Clock" for any particular location.
This is the Clear Sky Clock for Austin, Texas:
The above image is a running clock! If you hit refresh it will periodically update.
They even provide a small thumbnail image that is easier to fit on your website, it's just a little harder to read:
See the map below showing the latest CMC data with superimposed Clear Sky Clock locations.
If there isn't a location near you, you can even request that Clear Sky Clock be added.
For me it looks like there are a couple of holes in the sky above Texas finally after a week of flooding rain!
It's too bad you can't get a clock like this on your wrist!
Good Night!
posted by Dan at 9:08 PM
2 Comments:
Actually, I was planning to write an article about not only how telescopes work but also what different kinds there are and what kind to get.
Stay tuned! It will take me a bit to write.
Here's a good site! It talks about how telescopes work and different kinds of telescopes better than I could:
John Savard's telescope page
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