Monday, January 17, 2005
Those kidders at Weather.com
I was playing some music in Meedio tonight when I decided to check out the weather forecast. One of the images I use in the Meedio Weather module is the Severe Weather Alerts radar image. For some reason, I never noticed the text that Weather.com adds at the bottom of the image. It says:
"In order to comply with National Weather Service safety tests, occassionally this product will display test alerts, which are normally conducted during calm, quiet weather."
Wow, that makes me feel great knowing that the radar image for severe weather could be showing test data. You would think that they could come up with some more reassuring verbiage and maybe even some "test" graphic that overlays the map. Then again, that would take all of the fun out of it.
I was playing some music in Meedio tonight when I decided to check out the weather forecast. One of the images I use in the Meedio Weather module is the Severe Weather Alerts radar image. For some reason, I never noticed the text that Weather.com adds at the bottom of the image. It says:
"In order to comply with National Weather Service safety tests, occassionally this product will display test alerts, which are normally conducted during calm, quiet weather."
Wow, that makes me feel great knowing that the radar image for severe weather could be showing test data. You would think that they could come up with some more reassuring verbiage and maybe even some "test" graphic that overlays the map. Then again, that would take all of the fun out of it.
¶ 8:30 PM 
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