WeatherScope

[Chris Vagasky]

Is there a way in WeatherScope to automatically export the map created when it updates?

 

[Michael P. Morris]

Some very good questions, ones that may be better answered by the folks at OCS, but I can give them a shot.

I wonder if there is a guide to making your own place files?

As far as custom placefiles, I have not tried to do that myself, but WeatherScope does allow for the generation of dynamic and static shapefiles. There's some good info in the Help about that.

is there any way to view a list of full storm attributes? If you ever used like OKFirst, you used to be able to look at it there. Or for that matter, there's a similar list in GR.

You can view storm attributes in Composite Reflectivity mode with the Inspector (Ctrl-I or Window>View Inspector), and when you mouse over a storm cell it will provide you with most of the important ones (hail size, probability, motion).

Is there a way in WeatherScope to automatically export the map created when it updates?

Not that I know of. Your best bet is to hit Ctrl-E for a quick export whenever it updates.

 

[Glenn Dixon]

wait, did someone say FREE? For a Mac?

*click*

 

[Brent Osborne]

So being on a mac, where would i put the files that you can download for wxscope? when i open up wxscope i see two folders, a Macos folder and a resources folder.

 

[Andrew Herron]

There's a folder in your home folder called 'Weather'. That's where it keeps all its data. I need a fun project, maybe I'll work on getting APRS into it.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Has anyone gotten WeatherScope to run properly under Windows with the OU-PRIME data?
http://arrc.ou.edu/ouprime/wxscope.htm

I've seen it running just fine on someone else's computer (a Mac) but I tried this on two separate Windows 7 machines, and the OU-PRIME data causes WeatherScope to crash. I tried skipping WeatherScope and running the OU-PRIME raw netCDF files through Mc-IDAS, Panoply, and NcBrowse and they all don't know what to do with the data; apparently it's not standard NetCDF.

I'm going to write ARRC but I suspect they're just going to tell me to deal with OCS.

Tim

 

[Adam Wolff]

ARRC Radar Data is working fine for me Tim. Computer is running XP SP3, although I haven't upgraded to the latest version of Weatherscope (still using 1.7.2).

EDIT: I updated to 1.7.3 and ARRC Radar Data seems to be working fine.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Bizarre. I tried this on an XP machine and it crashes the same way the Windows 7 machines did. Maybe I need to downgrade from 1.7.3 to 1.7.2. Do you still have an EXE of the old WeatherScope install package?

EDIT: Never mind, I found 1.7.2 here: http://sdg.mesonet.org/builds/final/win/WeatherScope/WeatherScope-1.7.2.exe
I will try that and report back.

Tim

 

[Tim Vasquez]

OK... it works fine under 1.7.2. I guess they broke something in development work. DON'T UPGRADE!

Thanks much Adam.

Tim

 

[Adam Wolff]

Yep, mine crashed under 1.7.3 shortly after I posted I'm wiping and going back to 1.7.2.

No problem Tim.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

I e-mailed Justin at OCS about this, so maybe they'll get a fix out.

Tim