WeatherBonk.com - Get Your Weather Forecasts

WeatherBonk.com is a service that configures GoogleMaps with other things such as live webcams to bring you the most up to date weather and forecasts for you area. Usually you won't even have to type in your location because the website can calculate where you are logging in from. When you first log on you will see a large GoogleMap in your right hand corner of the screen showing you the temperatures where you are and in nearby surrounding areas. Some other cool features that the site has are the weather for your route, where you can type in your the locations and time of you commute and the site will tell you what weather you can expect, underneath the GoogleMap is on the home page are the average temperatures in that city for each month.

Weather Bonk is a mashup that lets you view real time weather information on a map. This can provide some very interesting information, particularly in areas with microclimates , such as San Francisco. For example, summer in San Francisco can be particularly cold and foggy, and this map can help you to find a sunnier area of the city to visit. Clicking on the web cams give you a visual observation from a given location. Looking at wind direction can help you locate approaching weather fronts.

The site can get very in depth in areas with microclimates so you can see what areas within areas have what weather at any given time, also the commute tracker is very helpful and unique to this website. There are quite a bit of web cams to choose from as well to get a good look at the weather with your own eyes.

Why will people choose this over weather.com or some of the other more popular sites? Do visitors necessarily want this much information or do most people just want to check briefly to see what the temperature is?