Desert Weather

[MarkBC]

Some personal friends of mine have found a page on my website useful enough to use for repeated looks, so I thought I'd share the link in case people on this forum might find it useful....or maybe just interesting if you're a weather-enthusiast like me.

Desert Weather

It's an array of Weather Underground current-condition "stickers" that I put together on my website for 27 towns across what I consider the "desert west". The stickers are arranged roughly/schematically by geographic location, with Bend, Oregon (my town) -- the northwestern-most location -- in the upper left and El Paso, Texas -- the southeastern-most location -- in the lower right.
So you can open this simple, html-only (fast-loading) page to get a snapshot of current weather across the West -- the deserty parts of the west, anyway. If you click on a sticker it takes you to the full Weather Underground page for that location.

(I couldn't find any other sub-forum here appropriate for this, so I put it on this one.)

PS: The Bend weather sticker is actually the current at my house. I have a little weather station that uploads as a "personal weather station" to the Bend page of Weather Underground.

 

[DirtyDog]

Hey that's a great idea Mark! We'll have to discuss the terms under which I borrow the idea

 

[MarkBC]

Hey that's a great idea Mark! We'll have to discuss the terms under which I borrow the idea


Thanks...and I'm a pushover for WTW t-shirts...

 

[SunMan]

Very cool idea, bookmarked.

103 in Needles at 7:56 pm?? WTF?

 

[MarkBC]

Very cool idea, bookmarked.

103 in Needles at 7:56 pm?? WTF?



Yeah -- it cools off really fast in the desert

 

[MarkBC]

Big changes at Desert Weather today!

• Added a few locations in desert Mexico
• Added a few more locations in the desert USA
• Changed/moved a few locations
• Cosmetic changes

Why not be like lots of desert rats and other fans of the inter-mountain West and make Desert Weather your browser Home page today?

(...unless you already have WanderTheWest as your homepage.

)

 

[MarkBC]

I made a couple more addition/modification/improvements to Desert Weather today: I added a line showing the elevation for each weather location and a click on that line is a link to Google Maps showing that location.



DirtyDog: If you want to use this idea (or use some of the HTML itself) for one of your outdoor sites feel free (tell me if you do).
I could see value in adding non-desert locations, too, since not everyone is a (primarily) desert rat like me. Might want to delete some locations to keep the width from being too unwieldy for a typical browser-window...or do away with the roughly-geographically-representational approach that I've used and just make it a list.