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Clouds Gadget and Mapplet

See your own weather from above! This gadget/mapplet displays a mosaic of satellite cloud images updated hourly (though the images themselves may occasionally be up to 6 hours old, see below). Optionally, it can also overlay my signature day & night display.

The cloud imagery itself comes from the following sources; when one isn't available, my server drops back to the next one.

1. Google Earth's Weather layer, sourced from the US Naval Research Lab (updated hourly)
2. NASA's Earth Science Office (global imagery updated every 6 hours)
3. xplanet's cloud layer (updated every 3 hours)

Want your own Clouds Map?

• Add it to your home page
• Overlay it on Google's My Maps
• New! Install it on the sidebar of GMail. Unfortunately, this is a manual process:
  1. In GMail, click the Settings link (at the upper-right), and go to the Labs tab.
  2. In Labs, turn on the Add any gadget by URL feature (currently towards the bottom), and save your changes.
  3. Back in Settings, go to the Gadgets tab.
  4. Copy & paste in the following URL to activate the gadget:

  http://www.daylightmap.com/clouds/cloud_gadget.xml

• Or, get the code for including the gadget on any other web page

* Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger (or higher) is required. If you're using Safari, click the download link above. When the widget download is complete, Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it.