Last Sunday’s Post profiled local site CapitalWeather.com, the first D.C. weather blog:
While an earlier generation of “weather weenies” will be stuck in front of the TV, Samenow will not be idle. No, a storm hits and he drives toward it, from his apartment in Van Ness to the maelstrom in Virginia, to collect evidence for his weather blog. He checks out Doppler radar, dew points, jet stream winds, satellite images, vorticity maps and convective parameters, and creates his own forecast, which he details under such subject headings as “Amazing Alex” or “Flood Redux” or “Thunder in the blogosphere.” Come the apocalypse, you begin to think, he would probably be outside with a thermometer and a tape measure preparing an entry: “End of the World???”
The story also mentions the weather subsection of our sister site Gothamist.com. Gothamist weather blogger Leslie Campisi told the Post her subsection received more hits than Gothamist’s sports, food, or advice sections.
We here at DCist have our own weather section, but it’s a bit on the spartan side – for now at least. Other D.C. weather sources include the National Weather Service, Weather Underground, NBC4, WUSA9.
