Something for the Weather Geeks

If you're a weather geek like I am, you'll enjoy this new product from The Weather Channel:

Something seems to be missing from online weather maps.

They show major highways and town names. But have you ever seen one get detailed enough to show neighborhoods and street names and, by extension, truly localized weather?

The Weather Channel is unveiling a product Monday that could change that.

The Atlanta-based cable channel has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to offer detailed road maps combined with satellite imagery. The result is an interactive Web map that lets users zoom in to get a localized snapshot of current weather. That is, to see how it's affecting their neighborhood _ not just the city as a whole.

The interactive map sits on the channel's online site, http://www.weather.com . It has a sliding bar that controls the view of the weather, along with tools that let users pan around the map.

Cool.