Time to get a weather rock, I guess.
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So, this is a stretch - but taking that idea (the idea that weather info should be available always) I've been thinking about a software project.
It would be cool to create an open source "federated/distributed" weather application. I'm thinking sorta a mix between seti@home meets torrents.
Many many people have their own weather stations or sensors. Many of the existing weather satellites are "open channels" meaning you can pull data with your own antenna.
What we need to do is distribute the processing, aggregation and hosting. I'm not aware of other projects like this that currently exist, but it seems like a good idea.