Continued work on my Database of Publicly Accessible Weather Radars
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 10/28/2022, 8:29 am
I have it available at HurricaneCity too. It takes a lot of memory to load the map. And even the list itself. (the list is created dynamically using the same script that powers the map)

Map:
https://hurricanecity.com/radar_database/

List:
https://hurricanecity.com/radar_database/list.shtml

As of posting, there are now 1,646 radars in 130 countries and territories. You can export the radar sites to Google Earth. (including ranges now if you want) You can also export them to a spreadsheet, save an HTML file or simply view the listing of radar sites in your browser. I've been working on it for the past month some and I might still be working on it for the next few weeks, or month, before I'll have most added that I can easily find. And I still need to review a lot of radar sites, which I want to try to do every few years, to see if countries have added or removed radars. I don't know if I'll add any other features to it right now, like options to view just data from a particular country for example. The links in the database were getting out of date, and I had more sites to add, so I wanted to work some more on it. I needed the ability to generate a list of links so that I could then use a dead link checker online that will generate a report of which links no longer work. Otherwise I would have to manually go through a thousand links manually. I wanted to be able to check that more often than every few years.

I also wrote some scripts that go through some of the existing databases of radars and tell me which ones my site is missing. I've added almost all the radars from the World Meteorological Organization's World Radar Database. (they have a little under 1,100) I still have a few dozen to go there, but might have 50 to 100 to add from other sources.
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Continued work on my Database of Publicly Accessible Weather Radars - Chris in Tampa, 10/28/2022, 8:29 am
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