New College of DuPage weather website up

[Tyler Allison]

Released into production in the past two hours...

http://weather.cod.edu

Learn to use it before you need it. Everything has changed.

Features:
- Animate just about everything (heavy use of flash/flanis)
- Model comparisons (being finished)
- Satellite product enhancements
- Overlays all over the place

This is version one of the new website...the rest of the website items such as text products, individual radars, etc are being brought into the new format as time permits.

-Tyler

 

[Drew.Gardonia]

not to criticize, but it's about time they updated that page, it was long overdue, and it looks great!

 

[Rob H]

Cool, they've been talking about this for awhile. I'm glad that the image format has stayed the same, because I've always liked their sector views and clean, crisp charts. There are a few little bugs in the side nav, Chrome was having some problems with the flash, and the NAM only goes out to 48 hours - all things I hope they're working on. It's nice to see that the image location/naming schema stay the same (since I have some tools that reference these). Hopefully they'll add comparisons between GFS/ECMWF too.

I liked their old page and used it a lot - adding all the fancy flash crap doesn't automatically make something better, but they seem to have kept things looking clean and simple, which was the strong point of the old site.

 

[Tyler Allison]

Not all the models have run under the new directory structure. We are still watching to see what breaks

 

[Dan Robinson]

Always been a fan of the radar and satellite on COD, it's the primary source I use. Kind of annoying to have to update my 50+ bookmarks now (301 redirects are your friends, server admins) but at least it looks like this won't happen very often.

 

[Tyler Allison]

If you need to update bookmarks, work the directory structure while we still have it open for directory indexing, instead of trying to do "show source" on all the different pages. Here's the root of where all the data is:
http://climate.cod.edu/data

We couldn't do 301 redirects because we literally redesigned the entire website and data structures. It would have been one gigantic 301

The additional 1km and 2km areas are fantastic (IMO), you can't find them anywhere else.

 

[mikegeukes]

Tyler, will the NAM and GFS forecast hours someday be every 3 hours instead of 6 hours
and will the RUC forecast hour be every 1 hour. Some sites have the RUC out to 18 hours.

Mike

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

Wonder how well this will work on an iPhone? Guess I'll have to give it a try!

 

[Tyler Allison]

Tyler, will the NAM and GFS forecast hours someday be every 3 hours instead of 6 hours
and will the RUC forecast hour be every 1 hour. Some sites have the RUC out to 18 hours.

I'm not in charge of the model runs. Sorry. I'm just a sysadmin.

 

[Tyler Allison]

Wonder how well this will work on an iPhone? Guess I'll have to give it a try!

none of the animation/loops will work. But the static image links on those pages will work.

 

[Tony Perkins]

Animation loops are working fine on my android phone. The new organization looks nice!

none of the animation/loops will work. But the static image links on those pages will work.

 

[Michael Carlson]

Will there be the same zoom domains like there was on the older site? Those came in handy most of the time. The zoom feature that is added in there now is "eh" but other than that its a pretty cool site.

 

[Doug Drace]

Already used it a couple times this morning, looks really nice and the flash loops are much better. I as well, have always enjoyed the well structured and detailed domain zooms. Nice update

 

[Tyler Allison]

Will there be the same zoom domains like there was on the older site? Those came in handy most of the time. The zoom feature that is added in there now is "eh" but other than that its a pretty cool site.

There are actually more. Which ones are you missing?

-Tyler

 

[W. Grant Dade]

Let me say the 1KM vis is awesome. I love the new updates!