New National Weather Service Radar possibly coming soon
Posted by Beachlover on 8/25/2020, 5:08 pm
Received this morning the following info from the webmaster for the NWS office in Mobile, AL, as to what they plan to provide for radar service sometime prior to discontinuation of Flash in December. Have not had a chance to "play around with it," but being an old lady am naturally more than a little cowed by having to deal with all this. I guess I'll eventually figure it all out, but for now it's just one more stress producer that nobody needs in the current environment:


This is the preview site for what we are going to. I do not know when we are shuttering the other site and making this one operational other than it must be done prior to Flash shutting down.

https://preview-radar.weather.gov/?settings=v1_eyJhZ2VuZGEiOnsiaWQiOm51bGwsInpvb20iOjgsImNlbnRlciI6Wy04OC4wNzksMzEuMTQ3XX0sImJhc2UiOiJzdGFuZGFyZCIsImNvdW50eSI6ZmFsc2UsImN3YSI6ZmFsc2UsInN0YXRlIjpmYWxzZX0%3D#/

The site automatically changes the link when making certain changes to the page (zoom in or out, type of displayed data, etc.). That is what all that gobbledygook is in the link. The basic link (https://preview-radar.weather.gov) will start you with the national reflectivity mosaic. I figure you prefer looking at the individual radars so this link starts you in our area with dots representing each radar. Clicking a dot will start loading the data for that radar. You can click another dot to go to another radar or use the menu in the upper left corner to choose a different site or type of data as well as hazard overlays (click the sideways ellipsis image.png ). You can change map backgrounds and boundaries by clicking image.png. The loop controls are in the bottom left corner - image.png

https://preview-radar.weather.gov/?settings=v1_eyJhZ2VuZGEiOnsiaWQiOiJsb2NhbCIsInpvb20iOjgsImZpbHRlciI6IldTUi04OEQiLCJjZW50ZXIiOlstODguMDc5LDMxLjE0N119LCJiYXNlIjoic3RhbmRhcmQiLCJjb3VudHkiOmZhbHNlLCJjd2EiOmZhbHNlLCJzdGF0ZSI6ZmFsc2V9#/


Play around with it. Keep in mind that until this page becomes operational, don't depend on it being reliable. It probably will be but being experimental, it will not be afforded the same priority as operational pages.






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