Re: Weather software

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks, interesting ... but also a bit complex in presentation ...
and having a radar-map, eg: as included in :

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

but animated for long time-spans, would be more useful - for seeing
where the rain actually is & how far it's moving & where it seems
to
be going to ... plus temperature & rainfall graphs, and web-cam
images, etc ... if only I was familiar with html, I'm sure it would
be possible to copy (via View Source) & adapt code from the
Met.Office & other pages & include it in a web-page with other data
...

'bought Dreamweaver ('think that's what it was called) a few years
back, but never had the time to get into it - maybe I should dig it
out ... or maybe it's the sort of thing that wouldn't cost too much
to get someone to do ... ?

trouble is, it would need to be adaptable, to keep up with changes,
at the Met.Office, and to keep the presentation fresh ...

Chris




On 7 Sep 2007, at 21:36, Jim Noble wrote:

> Chris Hunter wrote:
>> looking for some software that will show what the weather's doing,
>> has been doing, and may soon do ... maybe something that reads the
>> Met.Office website, keeps copies of the radar maps for the last
month
>> or two (as against the last thirteen every half-hour snap-shots
>> normally available), and uses them to play a movie, continuously
...
>> plus plots of temperature etc, vs the norm, and so-on ... on a
>> dedicated display, perhaps in the parlour, and to help with
planning
>> the day (stay in, do some gardening, get the camera out, go for a
>> walk on the hills, walk 'round the village ... whatever) ... don't
>> suppose there's anything that does this already ???
>>
>
> You can do a fair amount of that with Weather Display running in
> stationless mode and fetching METAR data off the net I think (not sure
> if the data is available free though). WD can also fetch webcam images
> (or a weather map...). Not sure about video though. Weather Display
> Live
> gives you a very nice flash based gui.
>
> Whatever happened to the UK Weather Channel anyway?
>
> Jim