Problems with SPC website

[Andy Wehrle]

Is everyone else unable to get to John Hart's Storm Reports archive on the SPC website? I get a "the page cannot be found" error when I attempt to go to this page: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/staff/hart/severe_archive/

Also, all of the links to this archive that I have installed in my high risk pages no longer work.


By the way, the other day I was messing around on the SPC website, and I noticed something interesting. If you remove the "_prt" from the graphic URLs in their convective outlook archive, you can get the non-printer friendly version with the black background.

For example, compare this
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/a...24_2000_prt.gif

With this:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/a...030624_2000.gif

And these:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/a...30_torn_prt.gif

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/a...8_1630_torn.gif

And:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/a...08_0800_prt.gif

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/a...030708_0800.gif

Interesting that they still have all those graphics online, but with no link to get to them unless you perform this bit of URL manipulation.

 

[Skip Talbot]

Good find, Andy. Now if only you could do that with the current outlook images. I and many others do not like the white backgrounds. What's curious though is that both of these work:

http://spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1o...lk_1630_prt.gif

http://spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1o...lk_1630_prt.gif

Wasted server space... or perhaps for backwards compatibility. I thought about writing a script to bring back the old plots but I haven't gotten around to that.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

Originally posted by Skip Talbot
Good find, Andy. Now if only you could do that with the current outlook images. I and many others do not like the white backgrounds. What's curious though is that both of these work:

http://spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1o...lk_1630_prt.gif

http://spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1o...lk_1630_prt.gif

Wasted server space... or perhaps for backwards compatibility. I thought about writing a script to bring back the old plots but I haven't gotten around to that.

Skip,
They both work because they are the exact same address....

I personally like the white backgrounds... It makes it possible to see the risk / probabilities without having the open the full-size graphic... Saves time when you're just glancing at the risk area, but we've had this discussion at length before, so I will refrain.

 

[Robert Dewey]

I think he meant:

http://spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1o...lk_1630_prt.gif
http://spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk_1630.gif

Try those...

 

[Skip Talbot]

Originally posted by rdewey
I think he meant:

http://spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1o...lk_1630_prt.gif
http://spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk_1630.gif

Try those...