JavaScript can do the same thing the Flash display can, only better. It wouldn't take them long at all to replace that Flash display. I would imagine it would have all the same features, but then again I still miss the days of the tropical cyclone floaters on the old NOAA site. New satellite site just isn't the same with floaters:
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/floater.php?stormid=AL132020The longer satellite floater has imagery that jumps around and you can't control the loop. The mesoscale 1 minute imagery is great, but sometimes I don't want to view that short of a time frame. I have to load a massive amount of images and set it to maximum speed to have it get closer to what I want. I wish I could choose every other image like some other sites have. There are no overlays any longer, like adding forecast points. Obviously I love having the more detailed imagery available and having 1 minute imagery available, I just wish they had that and the old options. And I want to be able to drag the slider on the mesoscale floater to make the imagery go at the exact speed I want. Other sites have that too. I guess this is stuff I am noticing more and more because I am working on a lot of UI (user interface) elements right now.
The site CypressTX posted does work nicely, but the display does need some work. The top left corner of the map has zoom levels. Bigger number zooms in more. You just click the number. (Wish that was a slider) I like using my mouse wheel to zoom in and out, but you have to check "Enable Mouse Wheel" for that. To pause a loop you have to check the "Pause" checkbox. I wish it was a regular pause and play button. You only have three options for speed. Wish that was adjustable.
The slide indicator tells you where in the loop you are, but you can't click it and drag it when it is paused. You can only click and drag it while the loop is running.
Sometimes the imagery doesn't show after you do something and you have to unclick pause to have the image show up. Then click pause again to pause it.
You can choose a lot of frames and choose the time step you like. You could choose "1 hr step" and "36 frames" to view 36 hours worth of radar data. Or choose "2 min step" with that number of frames and that is 72 minutes worth of data.
You can hit "Permalink" and it will load the page again with the view and options you chose so that you can then bookmark that link.
You can access that after clicking the "Base Map Layer" button in bottom right corner. I also turned off the "States" outline for the first one after clicking "Overlays" button. The radar selected is probably best. Because you are viewing multiple radar sites in that display, the "Base Reflectivity" gets a little odd at times between radar sites, with extra data, when you select that "Product Type". The "Seamless Hybrid Scan" seems to do better with merging the data.
Weather Underground has detail, but their site is getting worse and worse with IBM in charge. You used to be able to zoom in on their radar. Here is Mobile:
https://www.wunderground.com/radar/us/al/mobile/mobNow you can only do it while the page is loading. If you zoom in after, it zooms in to weird things. Also, "Lightning" layer doesn't work and I just noticed that "Severe" layer does not work either any longer. You can only loop 12 images, despite the options.
I tried a bunch of times and was able to get a somewhat centered view. Once you do, you click "Save Image" and you can bookmark that view that because it will always show the latest image or loop.
With storm tracks that show where a storm will be in an hour perhaps. Each segment is 20 minutes on the arrow:
From:
https://vortex.plymouth.edu/myo/rad/nids.htmlWhen creating the link there it adds the date, but if you remove the variables from the date variables, and not the variable names, you can create a link you can bookmark.
You can change that ".12" for the zoom variable to zoom in and out. ".24" would be zoomed out twice as much.
You may not want to get that involved with it, but maybe it will help others too. But I do think NOAA will likely still have what they have now.