Weather Maps, Animation, and Forecast for your Palm

A senior information technologist at the University of Madison-Wisconsin has created a weather site designed for mobile devices. And though PAW stands for PDA Animated Weather, it worked fine on my mobile phone. You can try it out through your regular browser at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/paw/.

The links at the top will take you to anchors further down the page -- regional and local radar and a bunch of links for weather nerds including water vapor, surface temperature, NOAA/NESDIS RainRates, etc. There is one Wisconsin-specific item here -- a map showing winter road conditions in Wisconsin.

The radar images have places you can click on them to zoom, as well as a menu across the top of the screen that lets you animate the radar, see clouds and temperature, etc. Certain points on the map are denoted with white boxes and numbers; clicking on those takes you a text forecast.

This worked fine on my cell phone, though the menu things at the top were slightly wonky. I'm linking to this because I was looking for something I could use on my phone that offered more than just text forecasts and wasn't loaded up with ads. This is nice.

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