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On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 7:10:50 AM UTC-6 Mark Jenks wrote: > I just sent an email to NWS. I'll let you know the response if I get one.. > > ---- > > Good Morning! > > For years, there have been many many people who have linked your radar > images and loops to their PWS (Personal weather station) websites. I > currently use weewx @ http://weather.mjenks.net > With the new radar, this is no longer possible, and the .gz versions just > aren't good enough quality. So I have to use someone else's radar now. > > It sure would be nice if you could provide an iframe code snipped that we > could embed into our webpages. Or at least recreate the images and loops. > > This is what I have been using that no longer works. > > radar_img = http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/N0R/GRB_loop.gif > radar_url = > http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?product=NCR&rid=GRB&loop=yes > > Thank you! > > Mark Jenks > Station ID - DW7584 > > On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 4:20:17 PM UTC-6 chri...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Thank you for looking into this folks. It sounds as though they have gone >> the same route as Environment Canada did a long time ago now. No more >> animated gifs available, instead they build the animations on the fly with >> overlays and a repository of images. The best I could do for Environment >> Canada radars was to create a shell script that runs on the web server cron >> that guesses at the current time stamp for the latest image and saves it to >> my webserver. >> >> Less than great. >> >> It sure would be nice if they could just provide an iframe code snipped >> that we could embed into our webpages. >> Alas. >> Cheers >> Chris >> On Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 9:59:31 AM UTC-8 peterq...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> I hooked up the NWS gif and it's worse than useless. It's hours old and >>> shows nothing, flashes clutter, and repeats. Now, it should show nothing >>> but the flashing of clutter is super annoying. >>> >>> As much as I'm pissed at WU, I'm going to use their gif while it's >>> available. >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 7:17 AM wfs...@gmail.com <wfs...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes John kind of crummy images and I just tried mine for KILX and it is >>>> two hours behind the current UTC. >>>> >>>> On Friday, December 18, 2020 at 11:56:56 AM UTC-6 jo...@johnkline.com >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> The loops in https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/ >>>>> <https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/KMUX_loop.gif> seem to be up to >>>>> date today. >>>>> >>>>> For example: >>>>> https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/KMUX_loop.gif >>>>> >>>>> As such, that’s also an option, although these gifs are tough to get >>>>> used to. >>>>> >>>>> On Dec 18, 2020, at 9:38 AM, John Kline <jo...@johnkline.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> This thread has a nice solution (see URL below): >>>>> >>>>> https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=40980.0 >>>>> >>>>> Terms of use: >>>>> https://www.wunderground.com/company/legal >>>>> >>>>> (In the following URL, substitute your radar station for OAX. Set >>>>> weewx.conf’s Seasons radar_img value to this.) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=OAX&brand=wui&num=18&delay=15&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&showstorms=0&showlabels=1&severe=1&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=0 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Dec 17, 2020, at 10:00 PM, John Kline <jo...@johnkline.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Although the directory listing here shows old timestamps: >>>>> https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/ >>>>> >>>>> The loop is being updated (albeit still a few hours old and I’m not a >>>>> fan of this radar imagery): >>>>> https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/KMUX_loop.gif >>>>> >>>>> Although not part of the loop, this image is only about 30m old: >>>>> https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/KMUX_1.gif >>>>> >>>>> It’s not clear one could determine which file has the latest image. >>>>> Maybe this will improve over time and the _0.gif will have the latest gif >>>>> (and/or the loop will be updated regularly). >>>>> >>>>> On Dec 17, 2020, at 4:18 PM, John Kline <jo...@johnkline.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I’ve been grappling with this. It is annoying. The “new site” is >>>>> maddening to interact with: https://radar.weather.gov/ >>>>> >>>>> There’s a FAQ about the change here: >>>>> https://www.weather.gov/radarfaq >>>>> >>>>> The FAQ tells one where files can be downloaded. I’ve started to look >>>>> at them (they are gzipped), but, so far, I haven’t found anything >>>>> acceptable to use. I’m seeing a single color overlay (with no base map). >>>>> >>>>> Still looking, but this is an awful change. >>>>> >>>>> John >>>>> >>>>> On Dec 17, 2020, at 4:05 PM, peterq...@gmail.com <peterq...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I use the old standard skin (modified). The NWS radar site changed >>>>> today and the optional radar graphic no longer works. Has anyone dug into >>>>> this and figured out how to get the new site to work? >>>>> >>>>> It's no big deal if not - I'll take a look myself and post something >>>>> once I find out how to make it work with the new site. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/15c6bd2a-5795-4cf0-9ada-c6527f8d56ddn%40googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/15c6bd2a-5795-4cf0-9ada-c6527f8d56ddn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3a87f847-e1e6-459f-9561-cf928ac1fcf1n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3a87f847-e1e6-459f-9561-cf928ac1fcf1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Peter Quinn >>> (415)794-2264 <(415)%20794-2264> >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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