Rain and shine hit Google Maps and Google Earth

Two of the most useful online services have got to be maps and weather.

With this in mind, The Weather Channel Interactive is offering a new mapplet for Google Maps that lets people add customizable weather layers to maps and see weather data on Google Earth (download it for Windows or Mac OS X).

One click and you can see the clouds over San Francisco on Google Maps. Pop-up bubbles provide more detailed information like current conditions including temperature, humidity, wind speed and UV Index. You can also find links to forecasts and track storms.

The weather information combines data from Doppler radar, satellite, lightning strike detection, computer models and climate profiles.

The weather mapplet is in the Featured Content section in the My Maps utility on Google Maps, while the data is in a weather layer on Google Earth.

Google Maps now shows weather data compliments of The Weather Channel Interactive.

(Credit: The Weather Channel Interactive/Google)

[ethana2]

bad download link

Please use the google download link that uses the browser user agent to determine platform. Thank you.

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

[peterbutler]

Download.com links

Hi, ethana2. We often provide links to software downloads from CNET as a service to our users. The mistake made here in production was the exclusion of the Mac version, which has been since rectified. All other versions of Google Earth are available via the Google Earth Web site, which is linked first in the article.