The Google Earth weather layers “Conditions and Forecast” and “Ocean Observations” have been broken for some time. We did a post on it in July this year, but at that time it had already b...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2016/10/google-earth-weather-layers-dropped.html
Over the last few weeks we have had several emails from GEB readers saying that the weather information in Google Earth is not accurate. We have compared the temperatures shown in Google Earth wi...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2016/07/google-earth-weather-layer-broken.html
As a number of GEB readers have noted, some of Google Earth’s weather layers have not been working correctly and as of this writing the data is out of date. The ‘Conditions and Forecasts’ l...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/06/google-earth-weather-information-date.html
DigitalGlobe is one of the leading providers of satellite imagery for Google Earth, and now they’re teaming up with the World Resources Institute to track fires across southeast Asia via their ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/07/digitalglobe-helping-track-forest-fires.html
Hurricane season is here, and Google has recently put out a helpful blog posts with tips for staying safe. Specifically, they suggest three things: Make sure your phone will receive Public Alerts...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/06/hurricane-season-upon-us.html
With severe storms again rolling across the central US, I thought it’d be a good time to revisit the ways that Google Earth can help you track the weather. Google Earth has a variety of built-i...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/05/tracking-weather-google-earth.html
We’ve all heard about El Nino over the years and how it can affect weather patterns, but it can be a bit tricky to understand the relationship between all of the elements involved in it. Accord...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/05/everything-el-nino-zone-google-earth.html
The NASA Earth Observatory site brings us amazing images from time to time (such as some of these), and they’re back with some fresh imagery from the tornadoes that have ripped across the centr...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/05/tornado-damage-mayflower-arkansas.html
For those of you shivering in the United States, you may have read that a “polar vortex” is to blame for the shockingly low temperatures. For a new look at that phenomenon, the folks at NOA...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/01/viewing-polar-vortex-google-earth.html
Google Earth is an amazing tool for studying and sharing information about our planet’s climate. Frank first shared a climate-related story back in 2006 (UNEP’s New Environment Layer in Goo...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/01/google-earth-climate-change-pollution-privacy.html