Kevin, I do not know the reason its only availble on some radars. I *think* its due to lack of money.
dave On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 12:59:12PM +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote: > Wow, that's what I was looking for. Why is it only on some radars (apart > from the fact it never rains in Carnarvon )? > > Kevin > On 09/01/2015 7:18 AM, "Dave Collins" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Kevin, > > There are rainfields products for some radars .... > > http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR02D.loop.shtml > > > > On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 14:51 +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > I wrote to BOM some years ago to ask them if they could produce an > > > 'integrated' radar image each 24 hours - each pixel would be a > > > normalised sum of the pixel values. > > > > > > > > > This would show the path of storm events and allow farmers to see (an > > > estimate of) which parts of their property received more rain than > > > other parts, without having to spend the whole day watching the > > > images. > > > > > > > > > Regrettably they declined this opportunity. But perhaps they might if > > > asked nicely package a 24-hour GIF for us all? (this would be half > > > way to a single summed image) > > > > > > > > > Although they are probably undergoing a nasty treatment of Abbott's > > > All Purpose Elixir at present, it may catch their imagination. You > > > never know unless you ask! > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Kevin. > > > > > > > > > On 8 January 2015 at 13:52, Javier Candeira <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > Hi Melbourne pythonistas, happy New Year and apologies in > > > advance for > > > the potentially offtopic question. > > > > > > I know the BOM radar image *isn't* an animated gif, but is > > > there a > > > tool in the wild that will capture and export it as a gif? > > > > > > Bonus: it's not off topic if the tool is in Python, but > > > obviously I'm > > > agnostic enough to accept something written in PHP or > > > whatever. > > > > > > Asking for a friend... > > > > > > J > > > _______________________________________________ > > > melbourne-pug mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > melbourne-pug mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > melbourne-pug mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
