Webcams

You may have noticed over there to the right, a box that may or may not have a picture in it. This is a shot from a webcam at the soils department at the University of Wisconsin. If you don't see anything (or much of anything), it's night, or the image will improve later in the day. When visible it shows Lake Mendota and Picnic Point. So if you ever want to check out the conditions in our wonderful town look there. You may also enlarge it or go to its site at http://www.soils.wisc.edu/asig/webcam/big.jpg.

Another of my favorites is located at the Engineering Department. This camera can be manipulated by you in some fun ways. You can pan left or right; up or down. You can also zoom in. (That is if someone else is not doing the same thing.)

This is located at http://lakecam.engr.wisc.edu/view/view.shtml

It's much more fun because it updates quickly, so you can see cars and students go by. The colder it is the faster they go.

If you go to the Lake Mendota preset and zoom the telephoto all the way, you can see the area of my parents' house across the lake.

Speaking of my parents, a webcam exists for their snowbird home in St. George Island, Florida. Should all of us in the frozen north wish to experience warmth and sunshine vicariously try this site: http://www.beachvillage.net/cam.htm

And then there's this: Ann and I will be visiting Italy in March and even a webcam exists for where we are going. http://www.campaniameteo.it/webcams.asp

At the bottom of that page you may also click on webcams for other coastal cities we plan to visit--Positano, Salerno, and Campania.

Happy viewing.