Maybe this is common knowledge, but I just noticed that the ridge/lite radar images and loops have been restored, with maybe slightly different URLs. The index is at:
Index of /ridge/lite/ (weather.gov) <https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/> On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 7:58:58 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > For the moment I've given up on the NWS stuff and am using Wunderground > maps. I've been able to integrate an animated loop into my weather page > by doing the following: > > I started at: https://www.wunderground.com/maps > > For regional radar from Wunderground navigate to: > > https://www.wunderground.com/radar/us > > The Intellicast maps may work as well, I've not tried them. > > From the drop-down select the region for your area. In my case I chose > 'KS - Salina', then clicked the Animate button. Now you should have an > animated regional map. At the lower right of the image is "Image Link" > which will open the animated map picture in a new tab (on my browsers). > > I used the URL for this image: > > https://s.w-x.co/staticmaps/wu/wu/wxtype1200_cur/ussln/animate.png > > in the "radar_img" setting of the skin.conf file for both Standard and > Seasons skins. For the "radar_url" setting I used: > > https://www.wunderground.com/radar/us/ks/salina > > I used a similar approach for the satellite imagery. I navigated to the > US Infrared page and then started the animation and right-clicked on the > image and chose 'View image in a new tab' from the pop-up to get the URL > of the image. One can narrow these images into a regional view as well. > > The results can be seen at https://www.n0nb.us/weather/ in the left > sidebar. > > - Nate > > -- > > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > > Web: https://www.n0nb.us > Projects: https://github.com/N0NB > GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 > > -- 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/cd5cc780-eccf-4ca4-b06c-dcff257901f0n%40googlegroups.com.
