Recently a few new services have been made available for live streaming video, and some of them are offering special deals for tour operators.

Google just released a new service called Google Latitude that allows people to keep track of one another using their mobile phone, or PC. The service appears to be a play upon popular microblogging services such as Twitter, but with more functionality.

Kentucky’s governor will ask President Obama on Monday to speed up federal aid dollars as costs spiral past $45 million for emergency work to restore power, hand out water and food and clear debris across the state hit hard by an icy winter storm last week.

British authorities could run out of salt to grit roads within three or four days as Britain faces a week of paralysis after the heaviest snow for at least 18 years, it has emerged.

I guess I saw this one coming – Kentucky is one of the hardest hit areas by the recent ice storm that swept over more than a dozen states and took out power to millions of homes across the country.

We just completed the addition of a new nowcasting area on stormchase.com. Visitors can now look over the Convective Outlooks along with the text, view up-to-date Doppler radar from sites all over Tornado Alley as well as retrieve live surface observations and IR satellite imagery. All course this information can be found on The Storm Prediction Center’s website and other NOAA websites, but its kind of convienent to have it all on a single page with an easy layout.

Storm spotters serve as the eyes and ears to warning meteorologist at the National Weather Service. Each year, various weather forecast offices hold training seminars that are free to the public for the purposes of providing enough training to help those who are interested in volunteering as storm spotters identify storm structure and understand safe practices while storm spotting.

I’m pleased to announce the long anticipated launch of the all new StormChase.com (at least long anticipated by me). StormChase.com is a work still in development and as the content grows the site itself will likely undergo some major overhauls. This blog however will likely be the most updated part of the website and I’ve invited several friends to blog here as well.