Monday, November 06, 2006
Weather Wood
Nashville , Tennessee - BVD Bloggtographer. WKRN has finally come thru with a weather watch winner.
It's called Weather Wood. WKRN's manager stated , " We owe it all to our Nashville Is Talking blogger , Brittney. She wood constantly complain about her view out the window from her blogging office since there was'nt anything to look at. So what finaly happened , Brittney wanted a view and put to work WKRN's weather department , this effort would enable WKRN to report the weather more accurately and in a timely fashion. Besides , when the blogg system goes down , Brittney goes down too , this new system does'nt suffer from power outages or CPU downtime. Plus the added benefit of realtime weather as it occurs which would enable the NIT network to report the weather in real time. The manager was amazed how a piece of wood would enhance their weather coverage while giving a view. No coax cable required , the view is free and it's low maintainance. This could change how the weather is viewed and possibly wood go world wide.
Here's how it works :
If it's wet , it's raining
If it moves , the wind is blowing
If it is spinning , there's a tornado close by
If it is white , it's snowing
If it's black , it got used for firewood
If it's on the ground , the system is down
If the rope is gone , it's been disconnected
This system is so simple to use , the idea of using this in the blogg network has been discussed , and there's possible educational useage as well. If enough weather wood is put into place , it would make possible to draw out maps as the weather occurs in real time. Plus , we will have the added advantage of observing the weather underneath the cloud cover , so that would eliminate the problems of whiteouts using satellite technology.