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Joe and I were talking today, wondering how the abbreviation of WX came about. In case you didn’t know, WX is short-code for weather that was originally used in the days of Morse code. It’s still used today as an abbreviation and NOAA labels its weather radio stations with a WX prefix.
Next time you visit Philadelphia, order a cheesesteak wif’ WX for a delicious sandwich and a weather forecast.
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Oregon Scientific WMR-100 - This personal weather station is both sleek looking and damn accurate. It has a remote monitoring station that works up to 300ft. In addition to showing the expected temperature, humidity, barometer, etc… it has a wind sensor and collects rainfall amounts! |
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2008 Farmer’s Almanac - Is our five day forecast not enough for ya? This 215 year young book has been forecasting entire seasons with 80-85% accuracy. They use both historical data and modern astronomy like analyzing sunspots to make their predictions. This book is a great resource to get an edge on picking a wedding day also. |
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Rainbarrel - Go green and get someone a rainbarrel that catches rainwater from your roof spout. They have a built in mosquito screen to keep unwanted pests from contaminating the water. Interesting fact: Every inch of rain that falls on a 1,000 sq ft surface is equivalent to 600 gallons! Check your area’s average rainfall to get a better idea of how much potential a rainbarrel might have |
As I’m sure you’ve read in the news, a massive wildfire has engulfed multiple homes in California’s Malibu community. Firefighters had trouble fighting the blaze over the weekend due to in-climate weather conditions. But now, thanks to light cloud activity and cooler temperatures, an aerial assault on the fire can now continue which should be enough to have it under control by this evening.
You can easily view Malibu’s current conditions here on SimpleWeather.
Good things are happening on the Google front with simpleweather. I was checking our analytics stats and took a peek into the keywords that drive people to this page from search results. For the first time ever people are now getting to simpleweather when searching for “weather”. This may not seem that exciting to most people but it is a pretty big deal in the grand scheme of running a weather website.
Addiontionally, our pagerank is now at a 4 (out of 10 sadly), but that’s up from a 3 so we’re not complaining. We could use your help in pushing us into the elite realm of weather sites! If you have your own website, blog, facebook, or myspace spend a minute and write a quick blurb about what you like or dislike about Simpleweather. We’d be forever grateful and we’ll be sure to give a toast to your name (or domain name) next time our glasses are raised!
I rearchitected the weather widgets so they will load asynchronously and not delay the loading of the parent page. I also added output level caching to get them to load even faster.
What are you waiting for… you know you want one!
