OtherWeather.com - Weather Forecasts From Real People

Are you sick and tired of waiting 30 minutes to hear the weather forecast from your local radio station? Or have you become frustrated with inaccurate weather forecasts online? It may be time you visit OtherWeather.com. OtherWeather.com is a social weather site. Become part of the community and you can rate weather forecasts or submit your own. The homepage of the site is a google map; above it you can enter a zip code and see the weather forecasts today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. Users can rate other users’ forecasts so that you can see which user has the most skill and who is the most accurate in determining the weather. Visit users’ profiles to see their track record. If you have found a particular user whose forecast you find useful you can subscribe to their RSS feed or post their forecast on your website or blog. Get the forecasts from real people with real knowledge at OtherWeather.com.

“Other Weather dot com is a social weather forecasting website that allows anyone to participate in weather forecasting and rating. Our goal is to bring the new world of Rich Internet Applications and Social influence to the dynamic and essential world of weather. We believe that by giving everyday people a tool to report the weather, we can achieve more accurate forecasts and deliver a weather forecast experience much more rewarding to the user than through typical channels.
To keep the established weather outlets on their toes, we've got a few tricks up our sleeve. We mashed our application together with Google Maps allowing the user to zoom in and out and see forecasts from around their location using Google's great technology. We added a rating system that allows registered users the chance to rate their favorite forecasts and gave each forecaster their own profile page with an RSS feed and personal weather widget. Sounds cool huh?”

OtherWeather.com has an attractive serene interface. The site is easy to navigate and has very little clutter. The social aspect of the site is a good way to find the users who give the most accurate weather forecasts. It is nice users can subscribe to other users forecasts and even post them on their website or blog. Google map always makes a website more attractive and entertaining.

Hopefully there will be more users and users will start submitting forecasts because I looked up some cities in MA and there weren’t any forecasts available. Does OtherWeather.com have any future plans of expanding to include weather forecasts internationally?