Wii Weather Channel Went live

[Lazybones]

Noticed my Wii was greeting me with its pulsing blue glow this morning. Turns out the weather channel is live and serving up forcasts.

Not supper interesting, but it does have a global zoom in zoom out feature on a global map if you want to play weather man.

[Shayne]

Any idea where they are sourcing the weather from?

[Lazybones]

Some screens posted here http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/19/wii-weather-channel-finally-launches/

weathernews?
Images owed by NASA

[Shayne]

Interesting.  When you can, could you compare what the Wii tells you compared to say...

http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-50_metric_e.html
...and...
http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/CAXX0126_c.html

..I'm more or less interested if weather bring reported is from the International or the Municipal airport.   Curiosity I suppose.

[Lazybones]

ECForcast.jpg = Environment Canada
theweathernetworkForcast.jpg = The Weather Network
Wiiforcast.jpg = Wii
YTWCForcast.jpg = Yahoo / The Weather Channel

[Lazybones]

According to someone in the Nintendo forum Madden can pull live weather from the weather channel now and give you matching conditions in game.

[Lazybones]

Thanks to Mr A. for pointing this one out to me.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/12/20

[Mr. Analog]

I got teh high scores! Partly Cloudy FTW!

[Lazybones]

http://josef.org/wii-forecast-constellations.html

The stars are apparently accurate as well.. Thanks to NASA providing the images.