any thinking about adding NOAA radio feeds to wunder radio?

[slatescan]

some major tornado alley areas are missing (Nashville Amarillo most of KS Springfield MO just to name a few


as a armchair chaser for the time being i would like to see more feeds

[rdale]

That's one streaming feed I don't get... It's a MUCH slower and MUCH MORE CUMBERSOME version of what you already can get free from many other sources -- what's the kick?

[kc0qlz]

Maybe i'm missing something here but what is Wunder Radio?

Thanks,Brian

[rdale]

wunderground.com carries streaming audio of NOAA Weather Radio stations from around the country, I just don't see what purpose there is in listening to it.

[kc0qlz]

I see it's weatherunderground!...............I was thinking wunder radio what the heck is that??LOL
Anyhow I don't use those feeds,I use NOAA Weather Radio,lot more reliable than streaming audio.
And Nice when the power goes out!!!!!


73,Brian

[z96cobra]

Originally Posted by rdale

... I just don't see what purpose there is in listening to it.

I'm guessing he just wants to tune in to the "local" station that is experiencing the bad weather. Its easy enough to pull up RADAR and notice an area with bad storms, so he probably wants to listen to the NOAA station for that area.

Roger

[rdale]

What I'm saying is that the information he'll hear on the link is EXACTLY the same as what you read on the Internet. It's not as though it's a local radio station.

[Bote]

Originally Posted by rdale

What I'm saying is that the information he'll hear on the link is EXACTLY the same as what you read on the Internet. It's not as though it's a local radio station.

Actually, it's not EXACTLY what you can read on the Internet, it's an inferior text-to-speech translation in which something usually gets lost in the translation. Some of the pronunciations are hysterical, if unintelligible. Not worth listening to over the radio half the time, let alone the Internet.

This would have been a GREAT idea prior to about 10 years ago before these damned computerized voices took over. I enjoyed traveling to different areas and listening to the local NOAA weather radio because you would get the local accents and inflections, and those local meteorologists knew their turf.

Nowadays it's just a homogenized, centralized, faceless computer that only knows the data fed into it from hundreds of miles away from the weather action. The local knowledge is lost, at the very least. It doesn't seem worth consuming bandwidth to ship that stuff around the Internet as speech when the text that generates that very same speech is available much more readily.

Hell, you can even get the storm alert text delivered to your PADD as e-mail or your phone as a text message. I used that method to great advantage during Hurricane Wilma here in south Florida when the power went out, taking the computers along with it.

I'll pass, thanks.