NEW/UPDATED WEATHER SITES

[Jason Boggs]

This time of year I'm going through my chasedata site and adding new links and getting rid of old ones. I love to browse the internet for new sites that I can use. I came across an SPC HRRR Model Browser site that I've never seen before. I also like to look for newer precip/reflectivity, satellite and surface data sites that I can use for chase season. Have any of you guys stumbled upon newer/updated sites that you liked?

SPC HRRR BROWSER

 

[Dan Robinson]

Great idea for a thread. A couple of new ones I use a lot now are the Blitzortung realtime lightning data maps:

Simple map (faster loading):
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=30

Zoomable map (less stable):
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

 

[Jason Boggs]

Excellent! I've never seen that lightning map before. Thanks for the links Dan!

 

[Jason Boggs]

For anyone interested, I came across some HRRR training modules, and thought I'd post the link in case anyone wanted some training:

HRRR TRAINING MODULES

 

[Todd Lemery]

This is a satellite loop that I use mostly on my IPad. I haven't found a better one myself. If you have a better one though, please post it.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/us_comp/us_comp.html

 

[Todd Lemery]

Also, some training modules.

https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training...guageSorting=1&module_sorting=publishDateDesc

 

[John Olexa]

Excellent! I've never seen that lightning map before. Thanks for the links Dan!

Indeed! That lightning map looks like it's going to be awesome!

 

[Jeff Duda]

This is a satellite loop that I use mostly on my IPad. I haven't found a better one myself. If you have a better one though, please post it.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/us_comp/us_comp.html

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/

Not only does the above site have much better resolution (without making the image size too large), it also has a ton of sector views (which keeps the physical image size from being too large for a tablet on the higher resolution products).

 

[rdale]

Jeff - how do you loop that? And the status page says they are losing data

 

[Todd Lemery]

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/

Not only does the above site have much better resolution (without making the image size too large), it also has a ton of sector views (which keeps the physical image size from being too large for a tablet on the higher resolution products).

Thanks Jeff! I just took it for a test drive and the resolution is much better. Not having to load the whole U.S. And then zoom to the area you want is a huge plus too. I just deleted the other one.

 

[Todd Lemery]

Jeff - how do you loop that? And the status page says they are losing data

Hi Dale. I don't know how quick Jeff will be getting back to you, but using my IPad, I clicked on Jeff's link and on the lower right hand side of the page is a list of "quick links". Clicking on those went right to looping for me. Maybe a computer problem? I didn't try it on my desktop, but on the IPad it works good.

 

[rdale]

Those are just for a few sectors, unless my iPad is acting up?

 

[Jeff Duda]

Jeff - how do you loop that? And the status page says they are losing data

The message makes it seem like a temporary loss of data. If it's just snow accumulating on a dish, I doubt that will remain a problem throughout spring and summer. I don't think there are any major bureaucratic changes going on at CoD, so I wouldn't worry about availability.

To loop, click on a product within that drop down menu on the left side of the page and display something. Once displayed, click the product menu button across the top of the image and select a looping product and loop length.

I used this site to view satellite loops on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (or whatever it was called) while chasing last year and had no problems.

 

[rdale]

Nice! Thanks for the pointer.

 

[Jeff Duda]

The number of available sectors is dependent on the scale of the product. For the regional and hemispheric products, there are only a handful of sectors each. For the 1-km visible satellite products, however, there are about as many sectors as there are US states.