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Big Screen Weather 2 for Windows Media Center coming soon

by Brad Linder, posted Dec 9th 2007 3:57PM

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Windows Media Center developer Niall Ginsbourg is responsible for some of the coolest media center plugins around, including Big Screen Movies, Big Screen TV Shows, and Big Screen Contacts. He also has an attractive application for viewing weather forecasts called, you guessed it, Big Screen Weather. But there's one big limitation with the current version of Ginsbourg's current weather application: it only covers Australia.

Now Ginsbourg is working on Big Screen Weather 2, and among other features it will provide detailed forecasts, maps and information for locations around the globe. Other features include:

3-7 day forecasts for over 4,000 locations
Satellite imagery and charts, plus animated radar loops for the US and Australia
Pan and Zoom to locations on the continent, region, country, and state levels
Support for 9 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, with Hebrew and Japanese support coming next year.

Right now the application is still in private beta, with a public release tentatively scheduled for January. In the meantime, you can check out a bunch of pretty pictures at Ginsbourg's Big Screen Blog.

[via Ian Dixon]