WINDNINJA

• WindNinja: A Weather Station in Your Pocket

"Over the years, wind shifts have caused untold damage to communities and claimed the lives of firefighters and civilians alike. Although the National Weather Service (NWS) provides regular forecasts of the weather across the country, it could never drill down to a small enough area to be useful for firefighters. So something more was needed, something which could sharpen the focus of those NWS forecasts to make them truly useful to fire crews. Thanks to the U.S. Forest Service, that ‘something’ is now available to anyone with a computer or a smartphone. And it’s called ‘WindNinja.'"

-- Michael Archer, Wildfire News of the Day