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Note To Readers:
Below you find links to what our
staff considers to be the best software available in this
category. Efforts have been made to assure a good selection
while eliminating software that we do not feel is worthy of
consideration. If you do not see it listed here you probably
should not consider purchasing the product. If our readers or a
developer feels that a particular piece of software should be
listed please contact us with specifics and we will make every
effort to give it our attention and, if worthy, we will include
it in our next update.
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StormPredator
version 2.57
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Updated: 05/10/2005 |
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StormPredator - Personal Weather Radar with
Storm Tracking & Intelligent Weather Alerting
Software -with FREE Weather Forecasts, Data, and Images!
StormPredator is the result of years of experience in the weather graphics business. The founder of the company, Anthony Watts, is a 25 year broadcast meteorology veteran and was responsible for the first ever PC based weather graphics display system for broadcast television in 1983. Since then, hundreds of TV stations have used TV weather display equipment he designed to show weather on the nightly news. Companies such as WSI and Accu-Weather® have relied upon systems designed right here.
StormPredator is a result of that experience.
FEATURES AT A GLANCE:
- New in 2.5! Send Radar Images to Cell Phones! Sends JPEG or PNG images on Scan Zone Alerts to HTML Email, and/or Picture Cellphones, Plain text based email and pager alerts are also available.
- New in 2.5! 70 New markers Place Markers on the map along with descriptive text, over 70 to choose from, even a mobile home! Plus you can create your own markers or icons for on-screen plotting
- New in 2.5! FTP to Web Pages Radar Images are automatically saved to disk for using an external FTP uploader program to send SP images to your web page. FTP program is included free in the CD ROM version
- New in 2.5! Image processing for image smoothing - provides a better radar presentation
- New in 2.5! New Full-screen mode shows radar images in static, rotating beam, or loop mode without the user interface
- EXCLUSIVE Storm Tracker Tool plots speed, direction, distance, and ETA!
- FASTER THAN NOAA WEATHER RADIO!
- Free Lifetime radar imagery - No subscription fees! Uses public domain NWS data
- Latitude and Longitude position reporting with a single mouse click!
- Personal Weather Radar with "Always On" Live Display Mode
- Personal Storm Alarm - settable for your area where you live or work - simply draw on the map
- Create custom Overlays for road symbols, towns, landmarks
- Mini-Mode provides updated display in small format on your desktop
- Pop-up storm alerts with or without audio alert, customizable .WAV file
- Stunning user interface with custom skins and buttons
- Looping/Animation with variable speed and single step mode
- Save radar loops to disk, load them again for history playback of severe weather
- Distance Measuring Tool- measure how far away storms are from you! - Statute or Nautical Miles
- Zoom Control - movable and sizable window, variable magnification
- Storm Cell Analyzer- determine strength of storm cells - your own personal storm lab
- Automatic Ground Clutter blanking when in Clear Air Mode, eases interpretation - selectable on/off
- Background or Foreground Operation, plus compact operational modes
- Full USA coverage for the entire 155 site NEXRAD Weather Radar Network, including Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico
- And Much More!
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WeatherAloud v1.5
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"Get the forecasts you want,
when you want them,
read aloud on your PC!"
WeatherAloud is the talking software for your PC that reads you weather forecasts and conditions aloud from over 7500 locations worldwide. It's like having a personal weatherman at your service.
These days you need to know more than just the weather outside your door, so WeatherAloud brings you forecasts from other cities and regions you select from around the world.You can build a personal list of forecasts that interest you, and customize each one to meet your needs. Wake up to your local forecast, listen to hourly temperatures from your favorite vacation spot, or hear conditions where your distant loved ones are.
Now available with the exciting new Natural Voices™ from AT&T Labs. Get these voices on your PC and experience text-to-speech quality previously available only in a server-based environment.
Frequent updates, current temperature in your system tray and complete control over when and what you hear make WeatherAloud a must for all seasons. Click on the image on the left to view a larger screen shot.
WeatherAloud is easy to learn so you'll be enjoying it right away. Be sure to check out our FAQ page as that's a great way to see any questions other new and more experienced users might have when getting started.
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WetSock Version 4.9c
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Instant weather at your fingertips!
WetSock shows your current weather conditions and forecasts as an icon on the tray notification area of the system taskbar.
Exciting features in
WetSock:
- The most important new feature in WetSock is the extremely accurate and detailed forecasts. These aviation forecasts, previously in the domain of pilots and other aviation professionals are now brought to you in plain language.
- Detailed cloud cover information for both current conditions and 24-hour forecasts. It not only indicates the general status as "mostly cloudy", "partly cloudy", etc., but also displays in detail, cloud height, cloud coverage at each height and the type of clouds
- WetSock supports monitoring multiple cities. You can have one or multiple tray icons indicating the weather in each city, or you can contain all your cities in a central control window, from which any and all weather information is only clicks away
- A detailed weather information window gives a snapshot of every weather detail you could want about a city
- Control over what kind of weather data you want to download for each city, lets WetSock to download relevant weather information for a city in mere seconds
- WetSock can show information on over 3750 cities worldwide
- It now supports 200 countries all over the world
- With almost 1500 cities in USA, and over 820 cities in Canada, you can choose weather information pinpointed to your location
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