... not sure how long these facilities have been available on this 
site, but at least one of them is flagged 'NEW'

http://www.meteox.com/

(1) At the top of the image pane, note the legend " clouds and 
rainfall images combined in 1 image ". This is an *excellent* feature 
and something that professionals have had available for many years - 
the presentation here appears to be accurate and smooth. Now, all we 
want is 'Sferics' on top :-)

(2) If you click on a rainfall (only) image, then it will switch to 
overlay of rain-over-Google map, which has all the usual Google-map 
facilities, such as zoom, pan. The downside is that the image time 
(and date) are not displayed, and there appears to the a permanent 
legend "09:00 - 12:00 CET" at the top which I can't figure out - as 
far as I can tell, the imagery you get is 'current'; remember that the 
times are CET, which are 1 hr ahead of BST (atm), and thus 2 hours 
ahead of GMT.

Use with caution as on one occasion it managed to lock my machine up, 
but I think I tried to zoom too far with too many images! Also, I 
suspect a certain amount of development work going on.

Martin.


-- 
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N   Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:27:53 +0100, "Martin Rowley"
 wrote:

>... not sure how long these facilities have been available on this 
>site, but at least one of them is flagged 'NEW'
>
>http://www.meteox.com/

Thanks for that, Martin.

-- 
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

Yes, its a good site Martin. However, I have noticed that when using the
zoomed in over the Google map, the echoes are displaced, 15 to 20 miles to
south of where they appear on the Met Office radar. I did tell Meteox
several weeks ago, but it seems to still be the same today. And as you say,
the displayed time is in error. Also on my PC, the zoomed in frames do not
update automatically. I also get the locking up problem if trying to zoom in
too far. Also,  the echo colour changes from blue to black at times, again
when zooming in.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html
or
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Martin Rowley"  wrote in message
news:d40bk.182514$aE7.99784@newsfe16.ams2...
> ... not sure how long these facilities have been available on this
> site, but at least one of them is flagged 'NEW'
>
> http://www.meteox.com/
>
> (1) At the top of the image pane, note the legend " clouds and
> rainfall images combined in 1 image ". This is an *excellent* feature
> and something that professionals have had available for many years -
> the presentation here appears to be accurate and smooth. Now, all we
> want is 'Sferics' on top :-)
>
> (2) If you click on a rainfall (only) image, then it will switch to
> overlay of rain-over-Google map, which has all the usual Google-map
> facilities, such as zoom, pan. The downside is that the image time
> (and date) are not displayed, and there appears to the a permanent
> legend "09:00 - 12:00 CET" at the top which I can't figure out - as
> far as I can tell, the imagery you get is 'current'; remember that the
> times are CET, which are 1 hr ahead of BST (atm), and thus 2 hours
> ahead of GMT.
>
> Use with caution as on one occasion it managed to lock my machine up,
> but I think I tried to zoom too far with too many images! Also, I
> suspect a certain amount of development work going on.
>
> Martin.
>
>
> --
> Martin Rowley
> West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
> Lat: 50.82N   Long: 01.88W
> NGR: SU 082 023
>
>

"Martin Rowley"  wrote in message 
news:d40bk.182514$aE7.99784@newsfe16.ams2...
> ... not sure how long these facilities have been available on this site, 
> but at least one of them is flagged 'NEW'
>
> http://www.meteox.com/
>
> (1) At the top of the image pane, note the legend " clouds and rainfall 
> images combined in 1 image ". This is an *excellent* feature and something 
> that professionals have had available for many years - the presentation 
> here appears to be accurate and smooth. Now, all we want is 'Sferics' on 
> top :-)
>
> (2) If you click on a rainfall (only) image, then it will switch to 
> overlay of rain-over-Google map, which has all the usual Google-map 
> facilities, such as zoom, pan. The downside is that the image time (and 
> date) are not displayed, and there appears to the a permanent legend 
> "09:00 - 12:00 CET" at the top which I can't figure out - as far as I can 
> tell, the imagery you get is 'current'; remember that the times are CET, 
> which are 1 hr ahead of BST (atm), and thus 2 hours ahead of GMT.
>
> Use with caution as on one occasion it managed to lock my machine up, but 
> I think I tried to zoom too far with too many images! Also, I suspect a 
> certain amount of development work going on.
>
> Martin.
>
>
> -- 
> Martin Rowley
> West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
> Lat: 50.82N   Long: 01.88W
> NGR: SU 082 023

Excellent site (best on the web?) The time stamp does appear if you zoom out 
one click on the google map.