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A Weatherpixie is a web graphic that shows a representation of the current weather derived from a METAR report gathered in one of 6000 locations around the world. A customisable avatar changes clothing or sports an umbrella according to the weather conditions, and the background of the box around the figure shows a graphic representation of current weather, day or night sky and current moon phase. Text below the graphic indicates air temperature, relative humidity, collection time, wind velocity and atmospheric pressure, respectively.
The Weatherpixie application was created by Tamsin Bowles, a web developer and server-side programmer in London, in 2002. Its website provides free code to put weatherpixies on web pages, weblogs, on a computer's desktop (using Active Desktop or Konfabulator), and so forth.
Unfortunately, the Weatherpixie site suffered a hard disk crash in March of 2010 and the application has not been operational since. As of this writing (18Dec2011) the URL (http://www.weatherpixie.com) directs to a page with the sites' logo and text stating that the service will return.
[edit] External links
- Weatherpixie site
- Tamsin Bowles's home page - includes biography, interests and pictures.
- BBC Click article about Weatherpixie
- Gothamist article about Weatherpixie
