Rain can cause fresh snow to become super heavy and extremely difficult to remove. Overexertion from lifting heavy snow has also been know you cause heart attacks. Get it done before it gets too heavy.
Wunderground.com still offers the old-style NEXRAD radar [LIX] but no longer has anything from any of the high definition TDWR sites
Instead, in this example an image dated from 2019 is shown and red lettering saying "Radar down for maintenance" is overlayed.
I assume Wunderground gets the feeds from the government, and I assumed the government didn't shut these radars down, but I've been unable to find a difference real-time source.
Specifically WWI & WWII pilots since there were so many planes up in the air, but would also be very interested in anything from Ancient weather devices up-to 1970’s (right before modern weather systems became prevalent!)
How did they track & share info about weather patterns? Did you just look up at the sky? Was there a dude high up on a mountain looking for storms? If so, how would he communicate to other what weather was coming?
I know the Crow’s Nest was a lookout point on (all?) ships, and it would only make sense to also look for weather while you’re up there. But was there any other way to find out about what you were sailing into?
IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES - THIS WILL NOT WORK FOR YOU!
The data is pulled from geoterrestial.net, which is used by NOAA Live Radar. NOAA is an American scientific agency!
Radar images are available only for the Continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico
I have created a video on how to add a live wide tile which shows a doppler radar image of your home location that updates every 30 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4wB31BQmqY&feature=youtu.be
Drawbacks
- Live Tile only updates every 30 minutes at a MINIMUM
- The static image of the radar image is not HD, but clear enough
- This fix requires you to set a STATIC gps coordinate, therefore location services are not supported. The phone will always show one location. So if you travel from LA to New York, the live tile will ALWAYS show LA.
- Web Tiles is limited to 3 tiles max. So you could have one for home, one for work, one for travel.
Technical Explanation
If you want a technical explanation on how I was able to find/extract this info, here it is below:
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Downloaded the NOAA Hi Def App from the store.
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Downloaded and installed Fiddler Web Debugger/Proxy
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Set up a internal proxy on my home machine and pointed the Windows Phone to the IP of the proxy server.
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Launched the NOAA Hi Def app from the phone clicked the "Update live tile" function to see where it was pulling the image from.
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Lastly I pulled the URL onto my web browser and investigated the settings to see what they did. From it i discovered how to set the gps coordinates, zoom level, size of image, and how close you can get before the doppler image goes away.
Fiddler is such an amazing tool. I've used it to monitor all traffic on my WP at night and find out what background services/live tiles are eating up all my cellular data.
I posted here a couple of minutes ago, but this question is for a different computer.
I have a 2020 edition Acer Predator, that I bought specifically because it was the top recommended computer for Geographic Information Systems. It's an absolute beast, and can handle literally everything I throw at it (including all games on Ultra settings, and absolutely massive Excel datasets), except, ironically enough, maps.
ArcGIS is slow to load, Google Earth is slow to load (which I accept because these are huge programs), Google Maps takes 1-3 minutes to load, any webpage that includes a leaflet.js map takes 2-3 minutes, Zillow and Realtor take about 3 minutes, and any website that includes a radar or weather map usually takes 5-6 minutes to fully load the map, and even then animations are choppy. Sometimes the page needs to be reloaded a bunch of times before it starts displaying the map.
Any idea why this is? I don't know why a computer that can play any game I can think of with maxed out settings, so clearly the computer is no slouch. Additionally, I have a 2013 Macbook with horrible specs in comparison, and the Macbook loads maps just fine.
