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March 20, 2008
Google Adds More Countries with Weather Radar Layer
Last November Google added a weather layer which included a global cloud layer, and weather radar for the US. Today Google has expanded the radar layer coverage to include: Europe, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. (The European coverage is limited to the north central part of Europe.) The new weather radar data once again comes from Weather.com. You can find the new weather information under the Weather layer on the lower left of Google Earth like this:
If you open the Weather layer folder, and click on the Information placemark, you can load a 6 hour radar animation as well.
There's another weather site which has some great Google Earth weather files called GuiWeather. They have a weather radar visualization 
for the US which I think looks even better (higher resolution for one thing). And they have a radar animation built-in to the same file.
See also NOAA Radar data in Google Earth here, and here.
Posted by FrankTaylor at March 20, 2008 10:38 PM
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Posted by: Jarno at March 20, 2008 11:29 PM
The radar layer is still very very far from covering Europe. It only has Germany, France, the British Isles, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland. That is less than 15% of Europe.
Posted by: Szabolcs at March 21, 2008 4:51 AM
I would love to understand how anybody makes any money by providing this type of data to the world. Is this simply an extension of government "public" data or is this from a business that is trying to make money?
Posted by: Vic at March 24, 2008 12:29 PM
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Posted by: ali asghar sadeghi at May 22, 2009 10:12 AM
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And check http://www.meteox.com/ for some European radar images that are updated every 15 minutes. Not only on their website (also PDA and as iGoogle gadget), but as an animated Google Maps image overlay and Google Earth networklink overlay as well (not animated, unfortunately).