Are there large real-time weather maps a home owner could buy?

[Thaellar]

I was watching the weather channel today and thought about how cool it would be to have a real-time map on the wall showing all the doppler radar around the country. I realized something like that would be mongo-expensive, but does anyone know how to locate a company that offers them? How do the weather channel and the local stations do it?

 

[mancow]

What map?

It's all virtual...as in green or blue screens that meld the image of the person and the map.

I guess you could go to BestBuy, grab a digital projector, hook it to the PC and display whatever map you wanted.

 

[Thaellar]

LOL...I should have known that. Thanks for the reply.

 

[BaLa]

how large? lol..

You could get an extra comp with a large screen.
Set it to this site..
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full.php

With some kind of Macro to refresh it every so often..I believe there is a browser that has an option w/Auto Refresh as well.

 

[Thaellar]

Yes...that's what I mean. But I want it to be about 6 x 9 ft covering most of a wall behind protective plexiglass and using a relief map of the US like this one:

http://www.maps.com/map.aspx?pid=3869&AID=10442067&CJPID=243567&SID=1

with a remote so I can select Doppler, Visible, Warning boxes, etc.

Might be easy to do in another 10 years.

BTW...thanks for that link. Instant bookmark.

 

[Grog]

tag for weather geekniess

 

[Don_Burke]

This looks like a job for a projection monitor and a wireless handheld mouse.

 

[BaLa]

This looks like a job for a projection monitor and a wireless handheld mouse.

I didn't think about that..That would prolly work pretty good.
If you have large wall....:lol: :lol:

 

[mkh]

Here's the map but you will need to figure how to get it on the wall.

http://www.wunderground.com/station...wxsn=0&svr=1&svr.tor=1&svr.wrn=1&cams=0&sat=0

Note - you can drag the map around

 

[chrismol1]

Automatic Picture Transmission from NOAA weather satellites?
You can get a receiver for around $200 and hook it up to a PC. Or just get a good antenna with a scanner and record the noise on 137.500

 

[RadioWARE]

I think this is what you want

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

 

[DRabbit]

Large-screen TV with an input for computer connection...

combine with something like this: http://www.soft32.com/download_191611.html (live weather screensaver)...

???

 

[bob-the-scanner-man]

A neat tool I've found is radar as well as other tools for GoogleEarth. Just google "Google earth radar" and you'll get quite a few sites for it and some with live feeds. That's if you already have GE or wouldn't mind downloading it. Then I'd just do what others suggested and get a nice projector.

This would be a cool idea to pursue.

 

[firetaz834]

If you had the bucks there are video cards that will allow multiple monitor capability and then have all monitors act as one. Then, this allows for setting up a matris simular to what they do as major events with multiple monitors acting as one large monitor. Your might look on this site www.matrox.com to see what they offer