Twitter / windcanical

Now Wind/KiteSurfers at Madeira island can receive Twitter alerts whenever optimal wind speed and direction are predicted.

3 day wind forecasts are calculated operationally for the Madeira islands using the MM5 meteorological model and using the GFS solution as initial and boundary conditions by the University of Madeira. Credits go to Rui Caldeira, Ricardo Tomé and myself.

The mashup itself was performed with some simple bash scripting and curl. More technical details are available at the archipelago wiki. I also aggregated all the twitter-bots into a single dapper application using Pipes, so you can add them as an iGoogle gadget on your frontpage.



If anyone whishes to forward their feeds to Twitter alerts, please contact me (guillaume dot riflet at gmail dot com) and I'll see what I can do.