Finally got an answer back from NOAA. I haven't see this link listed anywhere yet. Images aren't the best, but it's something better than the .gz's and straight .gif files....
https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/ On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 7:12:15 AM UTC-6 Mark Jenks wrote: > Email contact information here: > https://www.weather.gov/radarfaq > > 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 [email protected] >> 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 [email protected] >>> 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 [email protected] <[email protected]> >>>> 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 [email protected] >>>>> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I use the old standard skin (modified). The NWS radar site changed >>>>>> today and the optional radar graphic no longer works. 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