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. 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 [email protected]. >>> 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 [email protected]. >> > 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/8c8b6a6f-76dc-46e7-8852-52d8882d05ecn%40googlegroups.com.
