He said the Weather Channel decided against incorporating mesonets and personal stations because they "are not always reliable because installation and maintenance of sensors is crucial, and these unofficial results do not have a professional insight of a meteorologist".
Weather watchers who want to share their findings can post data and images to these community weather services: WEATHER UNDERGROUND, which is at www.wunderground.com, lists more than 12,000 personal stations in its collection.
A recent demo of Chrome OS featured the Pandora online music player, a service that allows you to name your favorite music, then sends you tunes similar to what you apparently like (based on roughly 400 attributes) and enables the creation of 100 personal "stations".
The move also sees the service continue to gravitate away from an on-demand offering akin to the likes of Spotify to a more Pandora-esque lean-back experience that borrows from traditional radio but mixes in the ability to create personal stations based on an artist, mood or musical genre.
This session took place in a computer laboratory equipped with personal stations allowing for hands-on practice with the portfolio and the web-based system.
The personal-station network will augment data from the 10,000 or so National Weather Service stations in the United States and national and international networks of stations (called mesonets), like the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
But having your own personal base station means that you can move it from place to place (like home or office) at will; the Express can even store and switch among five different network configurations.
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Personal Video Station works with a TV tuner card that is installed in the computer.
