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I generally just use the NOAA full resolution loop: http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

This plus a big monitor, my kids think they are in a weather command center ;)

I made a network of twitter bots that tweet beautiful, color-blind friendly animated radar GIFs every 2 hours.

Here's the continental US (@wxGIF): https://twitter.com/wxGIF

And a list of the bot network: https://twitter.com/wxGIF/following

Where are you pulling the info from? Regardless, this is something I didn't realize I wanted but have already followed the relevant ones. I don't like all the third party weather sites and usually rely on NOAA, but this makes it so I will see the radar in the morning. Cool stuff.

Pulling from NOAA, changing the projection, palette, and adding a basemap.

Data source: http://radar.weather.gov/GIS.html My GitHub repo: https://github.com/mattparrilla/wxGIF

Is @DeepSouthWxGIF Broken or deprecated? Hasn't tweeted in 40 days and they appear to be colored differently.

Nothing amazing about this... the national weather service has been doing this already for about 2 years on their website.

Where do you find something like this there?

glad you asked ;-) http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=33.55910&lon=-8...

http://forecast.weather.gov/afm/PointClick.php?lat=33.9321&l...

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=all&textField1...

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Sharon&sta...

My oldest radar.weather.gov bookmark dates from 2006. They had a flash animation up for much of that time.

My favorite no-nonsense radar for the Seattle/PNW area is the UW atmospheric sciences one: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/weather/radar.shtml. Fast to load, no-nonsense.

Notice also how post-processing/filtering the data can make a big difference in the results and interpretation:

Image #1: weather-ng.com: http://pbrd.co/1DzfPkq Image #2: UW Atmospheric Sciences: http://pbrd.co/1DzfYEh

Much more detail in #2.

Wait, isn't everyone using these since at least 5 years? A biking culture and frequent weather with intermitted showers has apparently clouded my view here.

(Simply google weather radar and the area you want to look at, and project the speed of shower areas to know when to leave the house and how fast you have to ride to stay dry..)

Canada's shoddy version:

http://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html

They've done lots of modernizing in the last while, it used to be much worse but at least they're paying attention to it.

I'm more used to the interface of FullScreenWeather [0] from WUnderground, but this seems to give me access to a broader scope of data. Nicely done!

[0] http://www.fullscreenweather.com

For those looking for a "flat" image, I really like the NWS National Mosaic page: http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/full.php

I like the Norwegian one at yr.no quite well (In general that is a great weather forecast site).

http://www.yr.no/radar/norden.html

Anyone else just getting a "Loading . . ." splash screen?

I was able to load it on OS X with both Firefox and Safari without issue. On 7 I got stuck using ie9. Chrome on 7 worked as well

It takes a few seconds to load on a 100Mb connection but Chrome works fine on FreeBSD.

Nice! I like the gadget too.

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