Brilliant!
// February 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Random Stuff, Storm Chasing, Weather
Storm chasing in 3D! Why not have two cams right next to each other and have the video interlaced so that you can use 3D or polarized glasses to watch storm chasing! Talk about getting immersed!
More NCEP Viewer Updates
// February 8th, 2009 // No Comments » // Development, Forecasting, KWiXS, NCEP Viewer, Weather
I’ve gone ahead and added support for image links so you can share the images more easily. An idea is to allow the user to cache the image to the server so that they can get it later and will last longer than 24 hours, when the next day’s run is done.
I’ve also made the menu smaller so that more image fits on the screen. I may change this back but for now it works.
I’m also looking into making the script aware of the model runs’ start and stop times. I’m not sure if I want to do this for each image, assume an integral of time for each image to finish or simply wait until the whole run is complete (which would still be an assumption). The benefit to this is allowing the user to change model runs that are a day behind and still keep the valid date the same. Right now this only works with runs of the same day where if you do this to a run of the previous day you will be behind 24 hours.
Of course, if I start using the server-side for this then all is moot since I’ll be able to check the modified-date on the image itself. This would also be a good time to start thinking about caching the images to relieve the strain on the NCEP servers.
TweatherWatch.com
// February 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // Development, Weather
After nabbing some code from Gabe Ortiz I set up http://www.tweatherwatch.com/.
All you need to do is add #wx to your Twitter status update and the site will show it.
I have some pretty cool ideas for this sort of thing so we’ll have to see how it all works out. If you have any suggestions feel free to let me know!
Building ImageMagick on OSX
// February 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Random Stuff
I had some trouble getting everything working in OSX so after some digging I found this PDF.
http://imagemagick.sourceforge.net/docs/GuideToBuildingIMForMacOSX.pdf
Rather than use the method specifically explained in the doc, I used /usr/local as my prefix and then built as normal.
Updates to the NCEP viewer
// February 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Forecasting, KWiXS, NCEP Viewer, Weather
It came to my attention that the viewer was not working in IE7. From what I can tell, the options property of SELECT elements, does not mean all the OPTION tags below the SELECT. Instead, it’s a collection of that SELECTS properties.
In any case, I changed how I was getting the collection of OPTION tags and all was well. IE7 is now working.
NCEP Forecast Model Viewer
// February 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Forecasting, KWiXS, NCEP Viewer, Weather
I’ve whipped up little JavaScript based viewer for the weather forecast models provided by the NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction). It’s primary benefit is that you can use the keyboard to change various aspects of what you’re looking at.
It’s on my KWiXS playground so things may come and go on it. I’ll release a finished version in a few weeks when I get some time to find the bugs.
Take a look and feel free to comment here on what you’d like to see fixed, changed, or added.
New Server, New Blog
// February 1st, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Random Stuff
So I finally migrated the domain over to A2 Hosting servers. I also figured I’d clean the slate and start anew!
