MotoWeatherman Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Got my radar pages up and running. Use StormLab software to do this and combine metar obs on top of the radar image. Pretty cool... Right now I have BHM, HSV, BNA, TYS, ATL, GSP, CAE and RDU base reflectivity up. Plus you can now loop any of the sites with my Flash loop which you can see the metars obs change and the radar loops thru the 12 frames. http://www.motoweatherman.com/radar/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strongwxnc Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Thanks for posting this link!! \ Got my radar pages up and running. Use StormLab software to do this and combine metar obs on top of the radar image. Pretty cool... Right now I have FFC, GSP and CAE base reflectivity up. You can also access a Java loop of each site. http://www.motoweath...n.com/radarFFC/ If you prefer to use a "Flash" loop of FFC then use this link: personally I like the flash animation better than Java. http://www.motoweath...m/radar/ffc.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generelz Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Those look great! Thanks for sharing. I prefer the flash loop as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyefan1 Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Got my radar pages up and running. Use StormLab software to do this and combine metar obs on top of the radar image. Pretty cool... Right now I have FFC, GSP and CAE base reflectivity up. You can also access a Java loop of each site. http://www.motoweath...n.com/radarFFC/ If you prefer to use a "Flash" loop of FFC then use this link: personally I like the flash animation better than Java. http://www.motoweath...m/radar/ffc.php It's already in my favorites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 This is the best radar to me...... RADAR- Atlanta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted November 30, 2010 Author Share Posted November 30, 2010 I just added Severe Thunderstorm Warning and Tornado Warning overlay to the screen. Severe thunderstorm warnings show up as a yellow box and tornado warnings show up as red box. Not Watches but just Warnings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXinCanton Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 I just added Severe Thunderstorm Warning and Tornado Warning overlay to the screen. Severe thunderstorm warnings show up as a yellow box and tornado warnings show up as red box. Not Watches but just Warnings. Looks good! I like the overlays with the warning boxes. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lookout Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Nice, will pin it so others can be sure to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep1478 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Got my radar pages up and running. Use StormLab software to do this and combine metar obs on top of the radar image. Pretty cool... Right now I have FFC, GSP and CAE base reflectivity up. You can also access a Java loop of each site. http://www.motoweath...n.com/radarFFC/ If you prefer to use a "Flash" loop of FFC then use this link: personally I like the flash animation better than Java. http://www.motoweath...m/radar/ffc.php Very nice! Added to my favorites too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_hailstorm Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 These are very nice,thanks for sharing. Added to favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 I just tweaked my clear air mode scale to show stuff down to 4dbz. Before it would cut off everything less than 8dbz when the radar was in clear air mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 My radars are currently down as I'm migrating to a new computer and have to get the software working on the new machine. Shouldn't be too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted December 24, 2010 Author Share Posted December 24, 2010 Got GSP, ATL and CAE back up. They are now using the new NWS HiRes radar data but I tweaked the color scale to match the traditional NWS colors. My flash loop for some reason is not working on my firefox brower. Can anyone else use the FFC flash loop link on the first post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosie Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Worked great using both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavarreDon Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Got GSP, ATL and CAE back up. They are now using the new NWS HiRes radar data but I tweaked the color scale to match the traditional NWS colors. My flash loop for some reason is not working on my firefox brower. Can anyone else use the FFC flash loop link on the first post? Dawson, I am at work & it works fine for me on the ie browser they have here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted December 24, 2010 Author Share Posted December 24, 2010 Worked great using both. Dawson, I am at work & it works fine for me on the ie browser they have here. Thanks! Found out the problem is my Firefox on my local machine. For some reason it's not doing flash very well. Edit...fixed my FireFox issue. Had to reinstall FireFox and all works normal now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Weather Monger Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Thought I'd bump this. Why is this great link no longer a sticky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sctvman Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 CAE radar is not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted December 26, 2010 Author Share Posted December 26, 2010 CAE radar is not working. That's because the CAE radar is down. Not much I can do about that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted January 8, 2011 Author Share Posted January 8, 2011 I've revamped, with my very basic programming skills, my radar pages and now have 8 sites up and running. Right now the loops are not working but I should get them all updated to Flash before our storm hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sluggo Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Got my radar pages up and running. Use StormLab software to do this and combine metar obs on top of the radar image. Pretty cool... Right now I have BHM, HSV, BNA, TYS, ATL, GSP, CAE and RDU base reflectivity up. You can also access a Java loop of each site. http://www.motoweath...n.com/radarFFC/ and the link: If you prefer to use a "Flash" loop of FFC then use this link: personally I like the flash animation better than Java. http://www.motoweath...m/radar/ffc.php Here's a capture from Banner Elk, NC live webcam to go with your Greenvillle, SC base reflect radar link: http://www.highcount...s_BannerElk.htm For some reason, I hear "Anticipation'" - Carly Simon in my head for all those on the board. LOL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sluggo Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Got my radar pages up and running. Use StormLab software to do this and combine metar obs on top of the radar image. Pretty cool... Right now I have BHM, HSV, BNA, TYS, ATL, GSP, CAE and RDU base reflectivity up. You can also access a Java loop of each site. http://www.motoweath...n.com/radarFFC/ If you prefer to use a "Flash" loop of FFC then use this link: personally I like the flash animation better than Java. http://www.motoweath...m/radar/ffc.php Thanks for those links. Can hardly wait to see this unfold. Here's a capture from Banner Elk, NC live webcam to go with your Greenvillle, SC base reflect radar link. Snowing pretty good there now. http://www.highcount...s_BannerElk.htm For some reason, I hear "Anticipation'" - Carly Simon in my head for all those on the board. LOL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 I still have not fixed the loops on my radar page...sorry about that...just can't find the time and I'm not very good at programming so it takes me forever. All of the "loop" links on my radar pages will pull up the FFC loop but all the non looping pages are working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 OK...so I was tardy getting the flash loops working but at least they work now. If you have previously bookmarked my site all the links have changed so see the first post of this topic or start with the link below and then re-bookmark your favorite site. http://www.motoweatherman.com/radar/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavarreDon Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Really like your radars Dawson. Nice that they all loop now. Thanks for the work you put into them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaculaWeather Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Good job Jason! Can your Stormlab be setup to automatically begin publishing to the web on startup? The one thing I don't like about GRLevel3 is I have to manually start the web process, you can't make it automatic. Every time I restart the computer I have to remember to restart the web publishing, it's kind of a pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Good job Jason! Can your Stormlab be setup to automatically begin publishing to the web on startup? The one thing I don't like about GRLevel3 is I have to manually start the web process, you can't make it automatic. Every time I restart the computer I have to remember to restart the web publishing, it's kind of a pain. Thanks AshevilleDon and Dacula!! Yes. Personally I wanted to use GRLevel3 but ran into two issues: 1) Manually restart after reboot like you stated. 2) It has to be open and running on the current "user" of the machine or it won't upload. I only have one PC at home (a windows 7 Dell) but I set up 2 users. One of my users is called "Weather" where I keep Weatherlink and StormLab open and running. I can then switch users to my "Main" user so I can do my computer stuff without having all these weather programs open on the bottom taskbar and having to worry about my kids closing them or something. I've been using SL for years and tried to change my web stuff to GRLevel3 but just couldn't make it work as good. As far as web publishing goes IMHO SL blows away GR if you are serving up multiple sites. Now with SL I have to use this "loop_builder" script that someone wrote for it as it creates a nice loop file name list that is needed for the Flash loop code. SL uploads images with a time/data stamp rather than just 0 thru 12 like GRLevel3. But with the free "loop_builder" script it works great. Right now I have 8 radar windows open (850x900) in size and uploading and the SL memory usage sits at 61k which is not bad. The only thing SL will not do is that neat "Smoothing" feature that GRLevel3 does. Also the Metar overlays are built into the SL software and IMHO look better on the radar than the GRLevel3 stuff. SL does have all those hail/storm rotation type of alarm icons that will pop on the screen like GRLevel3 but I have not messed with it all that much. Oh yeah....to autoload the sites is easy. In the SL software you just "bookmark" the radar product you want to automatically open when the SL software is open. So when you open the software then all the "bookmarked" products just automatically open and start uploading (if that's they way you configure it). Evan, the developer of SL, is open to ideas on tweaks to the software. I was a beta tester for the latest version 4 and bug fixes were usually quick. Since my main use of the product is just uploading images I was able to weed out FTP issues because if anyone would have any uploading type issues it would be me since I did a ton of it. Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaculaWeather Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 That's the other thing about GRLevel3, it doesn't actually create the images in a folder or something, it's on the fly as it uploads. I use Fling to do most of my FTP stuff as it's a lot more stable than the ftp in the weather apps I use. And yes, GRLevel3 kinda sucks at multiple sites. Not that it can't be done because I do it when we have storms, but it's just not as simple as it should be. I might look into StormLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoWeatherman Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 That's the other thing about GRLevel3, it doesn't actually create the images in a folder or something, it's on the fly as it uploads. I use Fling to do most of my FTP stuff as it's a lot more stable than the ftp in the weather apps I use. And yes, GRLevel3 kinda sucks at multiple sites. Not that it can't be done because I do it when we have storms, but it's just not as simple as it should be. I might look into StormLab I let the SL software do the FTP work and it works great. Version 3 of the software had some bugs that all my heavy FTP use was able to identify and Evan fixed all of them. Regarding the folder thing that is another plus for SL. You have the flexibility to specify what folder you want the image to upload to and also if you want it to save a copy in a local folder at the same time which is great if you want to "archive" a storm on your local machine or something. Oh yeah...and you can do all those topo backgrounds too...I just have not messed with that stuff yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaculaWeather Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 How do you do multiple sites with StormLab? As you know with GRLevel3, you open up a new instance of the program. Another thing about GRL3, I wish you could assign a set of placefiles to each radar site. I might want certain things displaying for certain sites. and of course, as it is, you just have the one placefile manager that's generic for all sites. You basically have to redefine everything for each instance of the application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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