Crowdsourcing the Weather with Twitter
A new project has emerged that uses Twitter to crowdsource the weather across the US. Don’t remove that weather app from your iPhone just yet, as it’s not perfected, but the idea is sound: use vetted, geo-tagged weather reports from regular Twitter users experiencing storms, snow, rain, or sunny days in their area.
OurAmazingPlanet picked up on the technology, and we just had to share.
The project was started by the National Weather Service (NWS), in order to harness the power of weather-related Tweets.
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