Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Africa's Weather? In Indiana??

Imagine my surprise today when I checked the weather online and saw we might get a tropical storm. Here? In Indiana?
We have had lots of rain and some flooding, but not to the extent that the Wabash had flooded North River Road. I decided to look at the satellite image on the page to determine just when those tropical storm conditions might affect us.
 Only I didn't even recognize the area the map was showing. It wasn't Indiana, though!
 A zoomed-out view showed me that a map of Africa's western coast had been posted for Indiana!
Just to be sure, I looked again to see that I had clicked for my own weather. I even refreshed the feed, and the same information about Africa and tropical storms came up again.
 Look at the elevation and the geographic coordinates - Wunderground.com is certainly having issues! (Interestingly enough, as I clicked to see my kids' weather via Wunderground.com, their weather reporting was accurate.)
An hour later and I still have Africa's map and a tropical storm notice up.

I wonder if the folks in Africa are seeing a map of Indiana?