• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Options for Level 2/SuperRes radar?

OK, to confirm:

- The options for chasers to pull level 2 data are either Radarscope (Android/IOS/Windows, $10) or GR2Analyst (Windows, $250).
- Third-party subscriptions are available but no longer required to access live Level 2 data in GR2Analyst.
- The free public source for Level 2 data is via AWS:
aws.amazon.com

New AWS Public Data Set – Real-Time and Archived NEXRAD Weather Data | Amazon Web Services

My colleague Ariel Gold wrote the guest post below to introduce the newest AWS Public Data Set. — Jeff; You can now access real-time and archival NEXRAD weather radar data as an AWS Public Data Set. The Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) is a network of 160 high-resolution Doppler radar...
aws.amazon.com aws.amazon.com

Are there any other options?
 
Dan Robinson said:
OK, to confirm:

- The options for chasers to pull level 2 data are either Radarscope (Android/IOS/Windows, $10) or GR2Analyst (Windows, $250).
- Third-party subscriptions are available but no longer required to access live Level 2 data in GR2Analyst.
- The free public source for Level 2 data is via AWS:
aws.amazon.com

New AWS Public Data Set – Real-Time and Archived NEXRAD Weather Data | Amazon Web Services

My colleague Ariel Gold wrote the guest post below to introduce the newest AWS Public Data Set. — Jeff; You can now access real-time and archival NEXRAD weather radar data as an AWS Public Data Set. The Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) is a network of 160 high-resolution Doppler radar...
aws.amazon.com aws.amazon.com

Are there any other options?
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I may be confused here (it happens)... but, I thought Radarscope was doing Super-Res (in L3 format?), not L2 ... maybe just a subtle difference ... and not an area I have looked at too much, but, this AllisonHouse blog entry (from 2015, so, maybe outdated) ... On the level: clearing up radar data misconceptions - AllisonHouse Severe Weather Blog ... details some differences between L2 and L3 Super-Res that exist(ed?).
 
Pretty good summary...

RadarScope doesn't do Level II either, it does SuperRes which is comparable. GR3 does SuperRes if you have AllisonHouse as your provider.

The only app that does pure Level II is WeatherLab. Weather Lab - The only 3D radar on iPhone and iPad

NCEI is a free web viewer: NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit (Viewer and Data Exporter)

Unidata IDV: Unidata | IDV

AWIPS2 (I'm not sure that the free provider has L2 though): Unidata AWIPS User Manual

MciDAS-V: McIDAS-V — SSEC

I've heard of AWeather but never touched it. AWeather
 
I have AWeather on one of my old linux machines but really never messed with it, so I can't tell you much about it. If I have some spare time, I may get it out and play with it on one of my newer machines just to see if it's any good. From what I remember, the D610 that I tried it on years ago simply didn't have enough processor to properly run it.
 
RyanHickman said:
Unidata AWIPS2 doesn’t support Level 2 anymore AFAIK. We (AllisonHouse) were forced to roll-out Super-Res for our EDEX/AWIPS2.
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Super-Res works now for EDEX/AWIPS2 ? The last I heard it created performance issues and was disabled (assuming I am not confused).
 
Lou Ruh said:
Super-Res works now for EDEX/AWIPS2 ? The last I heard it created performance issues and was disabled (assuming I am not confused).
Click to expand...
It works for AllisonHouse customers now; we updated that Twitter thread after we reached a resolution. It created performance issues and those were solved within a month or two.
 
wX will show Level 2 SuperRes reflectivity & velocity.


I have downloaded Aweather but haven't installed it yet.
 
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