Did you know that it’s not uncommon to have dozens of tornadoes reported in the U.S. in a single day? Now you can watch the reports come in, accurately mapped in Google Earth, as events unfold.

The latest KML from the guiWeather team shows storm reports for tornadoes, damaging winds and hail, complete with descriptions of injuries and damage. This example shows a confirmed tornado in Missouri earlier in the week.

Above: Confirmed tornado and damage in Missouri. The inset shows the Places options to display reports for ‘Last 3 Hours,’ ‘Today,’ & ‘Yesterday.’ click for larger image.

You can select to view yesterday’s reports, today’s or just the most recent. When you save this to your Places directory, it will auto-update when you reopen Google Earth, and every five minutes as you keep Google Earth open. To download this free guiWeather exclusive, (more…)

The team at guiWeather has released three new mapplets for the Google’s My Maps platform with versions of our most popular Google Earth features. My Maps lets you add custom content to Google Maps and create your own specialized maps.

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• Live Lightning

A guiWeather exclusive–Lightning strikes around the world in the past thirty minutes. Auto-updated. As many as 1,200 bolts displayed

• Tropical Weather

Another exclusive–Current storms, official forecast tracks, model forecasts, buoy & ship data and reconaissance flights

• Current Weather

Unique guiWeather mapplet with 1000’s of worldwide current conditions & forecasts. Choose ‘icon’ or ‘graph’ format, Select English or metric.

Instructions for getting the new guiWeather mapplets: (more…)

Here’s a tip from the guiWeather team to get the most from our imagery: Turn off ‘compression’ in your Google Earth options.

Can you tell the difference? The uncompressed image is on the left. Click for larger image.

guiWeather Radar, for example, shows more precip detail with compression turned off. Do the following to change this setting: (more…)

guiWeather’s unique Global Lightning is now faster to load, and more user-friendly.

above: guiWeather Global Lightning over our radar layer of Humberto on Sept. 13.

More about our lightning and how to get it: 

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The guiWeather team has released an improved version of our Ship & Buoy KML product for Google Earth.

Above: guiWeather Ship & Buoy product; click for larger view

Here’s what’s new and how to get the new version:

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Why are not all radar KML products alike, and what’s special about ours? Answer: the best QA in the industry. Not only do we produce our own national mosaic from all U.S. advanced Level II NEXRAD sites within 10 seconds of the data arrival; we apply proprietary processes to filter non-precipitation artifacts, ground clutter, biological targets (birds!), electronic interference and other

Above: the difference is dramatic–NWS radar & guiWeather radar; click for larger view

things that keep you from seeing the precip as it really is in Google Earth. We apply our own

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Above: new guiWeather Airport Delays combined with guiWeather Radar; click for larger view.

The guiWeather team has released a new Airport Delay tool for Google Earth.

Here’s how you can download it, and some particulars:

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Frank Taylor’s excellent Google Earth Blog site features a video that Frank produced to show some of his favorite storm tracking tools.

In the video you can see how guiWeather layers combine to tell an effective story: storm position, track and projected wind impact, all in the guiWeather Global Storm Track download.

Click on the image to go to Frank’s video.

Hurricane Dean is the third most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall since record-keeping began in the 1850’s. Did you know that you can track all Atlantic storms since 1851 in guiWeather, and sort them by year, name and strength?

This shot, for example, shows all Cat5 Atlantic hurricanes and their tracks for the past 20 years.

Just use the free guiWeather Hurricane Archive Track tool

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