An inspired thanks to
Google Maps NES tribute maps, I thought it would be fun to make some weather graphics that were considered high tech in the mid to late 80's for today's blog.
Sun will give way to clouds and showers today, as an approaching weak storm system moves in from Canada later this afternoon. Expect showers to arrive around 5 PM. Todays highs will be just around normal reaching near 50 in most locations.
 |
| Google Maps NES 1987 version of New England Map with todays high temperatures. |
 |
| Clouds will increase this afternoon from the west. In the 80s, most satellite images received by TV stations were of low quality and only a few pixels. It could take up to 15 minutes to get this image and disk space was at a minimum to store this 2MB image. |
|
 |
| Rain over New York will arrive in the Boston area around 5 PM. If a TV station was lucky and had money in the 80s it could tap into the NWS Telephone line to access the radar sweep from the WSR 57 Radars. Only 5 colors would be could be shown to indicate intensity. Most maps looked like this with 3 letter airport codes to indicate cities. (NOTE: the snow colors did not arrive until the later 90s as seen on this de-hanced map) |
 |
| In the 80s, weather forecasts were considered to be most accurate out to 4 days. Some places started giving out a 5 day forecast, but this could be filled with A LOT of errors, so it was safer for the meteorologists to only give a 4 day forecast, and at that time, only high temperatures for the day were given. |
Maps: accuweather.com intellicast. com and maps.google.com
No comments:
Post a Comment