I want to talk quickly about some new things we have launched recently here at Simcoe Weather.

Last 24 hour Observations
We have added a new Observation page. On there you can see all the latest, in some cases near real-time, observations within the Simcoe Weather coverage area. You can also click through each of those individual observation stations to see the observations within the last 24 hours that have been reported. Some observation stations only report very hour, while other ones may report every 10 minutes, especially the Personal Weather Stations. There are also a few stations that are reporting actual weather conditions, such as CFB Borden, Muskoka Airport and Toronto Buttonville Airport. There is also a link to see the last 24 hour observations in the local forecast page.
Note: Its important to look at the timestamps of the last observations reported!

Regional Webcams
Another new page we added is the new Webcam page. It displays the regional webcams within the Simcoe Weather coverage area, grouped by location. The webcams might not always work, since they are provided by external websites. We also added a new section in the local forecast that shows the nearest webcam of the location of the local forecast.
Note: Once again, its important to look at the timestamps of the webcams to see when the picture was taken!

Sun & Astronomical Information
Lastly, we added a new section in the local forecast that shows the time of the sunrise and sunset as well as other Astronomical Information for that day. If you find any errors, or want to see more Astronomical information that we don't display currently, contact us and we'll see what we can do.

Improved Simcoe Weather Mobile Website
This is fairly important new addition. We had the Simcoe Weather Mobile Website for a while now, but we only concentrated it to get it into the newer smartphones. We where thinking to always support all mobile phones, so that's why we re-designed the mobile website to make it capable of being viewable on all mobile phones, as long as you have an internet connection. However, we did add some extra gimmicks if you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, Android or Palm Pre by adding the ability to automatically detect your location using your phones GPS. You can view more information on our mobile web page.

The year 2010 just got started, but we have already been actively working on new features, including the Simcoe Weather API, in where we have made many additions, including a new Webcam API.

Thanks for all your support :)

Hey all,

Yesterday marked the official One Year Anniversary of Simcoe Weather. Although Simcoe Weather exist well before that, it wasn't really a company until then. Over the last year we had a lot of good memories at Simcoe Weather, and we wouldn't have done it without our users, you!

Besides creating weather forecasts for south-central Ontario, we worked hard on the website. We improved many of the web pages to make it easier for users to find weather information. We revamped the Simcoe Weather API to make it even easier developing weather applications. We launched a new local forecast page, to make it easier for you to get the weather information you want and we also worked hard to develop a new infrastructure that changed how we update our weather forecasts, by being able to localize our weather forecasts down to street level. In fact, in 2009 we mainly focused on simplicity and work on new ways that keep the forecasts accurate.

So, for the road ahead, we are planning on adding more cool features in 2010. We want weather information to be simple, easy understandable and off course open. Happy New Year and I hope you join us in 2010.

Thanks,

Mario