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Larry - 23 Jul 2008 18:30 GMT

http://mobile.weather.gov/radarhl.php?radar=kbro

The hurricane is crossing Padre Island IN TEXAS NOT MEXICO as I type this.

Look at the website with any phone or web browser....OUCH!

The little sellphone browser url is:

http://mobile.weather.gov/radar.php?radar=kbro

Simply change the station ID kbro to any Weather Service Office callsign
like kclt or kclx for other radars on your phone....quickly, in color.

Best wishes for safety to all the people of Southern Texas and Northern
Mexico today.....That puppy is really tight eyed!

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Larry - 23 Jul 2008 18:40 GMT

Larry <noone@home.com> wrote in news:Xns9AE489E76B062noonehomecom@
208.49.80.253:

> Best wishes for safety to all the people of Southern Texas and Northern
> Mexico today.....That puppy is really tight eyed!

Weather station on the beach at S Padre Island....live data
http://www.krgv.com/Weather/WeatherBug
The map has clickable weather bug stations across the TV viewing area.

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Todd Allcock - 23 Jul 2008 21:06 GMT

> http://mobile.weather.gov/radarhl.php?radar=kbro
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> Best wishes for safety to all the people of Southern Texas and Northern
> Mexico today.....That puppy is really tight eyed!

Agreed. One of the Microsoft Mobile Device MVPs setup a nice link to those
mobile radar pages years ago for people who don't know the callsigns.

With a touchscreen device you can tap on the dot on the map, or with a
button-controlled device select the map then scroll the crosshairs to
select the desired station.

Bev designed it for old Windows CE PDAs but it'll work on any smartphone or
phone with HTML browser (works great in Opera Mini.)

http://bevhoward.com/storm/ppcrad.htm

A good site to bookmark this time of year if you live in a hurricane area!

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Craig - 23 Jul 2008 22:05 GMT

>> http://mobile.weather.gov/radarhl.php?radar=kbro
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> A good site to bookmark this time of year if you live in a hurricane area!

Great resource, thx!

-Craig

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Larry - 24 Jul 2008 01:33 GMT

Craig <netburgher@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in news:g1Nhk.17125$jI5.10395
@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com:

> Great resource, thx!
>
> -Craig

You're quite welcome...(c;

http://mobile.weather.gov/
has lots of other resources for the smartphones and tablets

http://cell.weather.gov/
is a wap weather site for the simpler craphones stuck with WAP to save
sellphone companies bandwidth.

I like them because they are near instantaneous on EVDO....bookmarked.

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Ron - 24 Jul 2008 01:12 GMT

>> http://mobile.weather.gov/radarhl.php?radar=kbro
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>> http://mobile.weather.gov/radar.php?radar=kbro

A Fox rfeporter using Sprint was able to send info back. I had a
friend at the Radison there (where the conference Center blew apart)
and their ability to get an ATT signal came and went.

Of course the idiot lady in the studio kept saying how Padre Island
was just like Galveston that got hit by Rita.

Except it never happened; Rita went inland 100 miles east if
Galveston.

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Larry - 24 Jul 2008 01:19 GMT

> A Fox rfeporter using Sprint was able to send info back. I had a
> friend at the Radison there (where the conference Center blew apart)
> and their ability to get an ATT signal came and went.

There WAS a rooftop weather cam from Weather Bug pointed out to sea and I
was watching it when we suddenly tipped back pointing crazy and it
locked....

There were great pictures on it, in spite of the rain on the box window
just before it died.

Here's a mirror site that's still up with the last picture the weather bug
sent out before it died!
http://www.instacam.com/showcam.asp?id=STHPD&size=S

This site also has the older pictures on it. Click the TIME LAPSE button to
look at each hourly snap this morning....Notice the beach DISAPPEARS! I
clicked the nominate button for best site. It certainly earned that right
dead centered on the storm this morning....

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Larry - 24 Jul 2008 01:30 GMT

> A good site to bookmark this time of year if you live in a hurricane
> area!

That's here....

I stood with my handset in one hand and the bagphone on AMPS in the other
dead center in the EYE of Cat5 Hurricane Hugo in 1989....on Cellular
One....talking to family up Nawth describing the stars plainly visible in
the center of the storm near midnight.....

Then, the back of the storm made all the trees in the neighborhood go back
down the street in the direction they flew from.....

Charleston was FLATTENED....Dolly is just a little blow in comparison.

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iPhone News - 24 Jul 2008 01:04 GMT

Or for iPhone users. Just touch your weather bug icon (free from the App
store), type in Brownsville or McAllen Texas (or any zip code) and
you'll get not just real time radar images, but live pictures from
weather cameras all through the area.

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4phun - 24 Jul 2008 04:11 GMT

> In article <Xns9AE489E76B062noonehome...@208.49.80.253>,
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> you'll get not just real time radar images, but live pictures from
> weather cameras all through the area.

All you have to do is zoom the WEATHER BUG map out from any location
and pan down to Texas and the Gulf with a touch of your two fingers.
Pull way out and view the weather across thousands of miles or pinch
it to zoom in on the eye of the hurricane. Change the OPACITY to view
details directly under the weather if you need to read the map streets
etc. That little iPhone WEATHER BUG is a sleeper and its map has some
real capabilities to stretch and zoom and overlay radar data that are
not obvious at first.

I love it.

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