Chris Vagasky
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Is there a way in WeatherScope to automatically export the map created when it updates?
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WeatherScope
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Some very good questions, ones that may be better answered by the folks at OCS, but I can give them a shot.
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.
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).
Not that I know of. Your best bet is to hit Ctrl-E for a quick export whenever it updates.
Glenn Dixon
EF2
wait, did someone say FREE? For a Mac?
*click*
*click*
Brent Osborne
Enthusiast
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
EF3
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
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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
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
EF0
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.
EDIT: I updated to 1.7.3 and ARRC Radar Data seems to be working fine.
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Tim Vasquez
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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
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
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OK... it works fine under 1.7.2. I guess they broke something in development work. DON'T UPGRADE!
Thanks much Adam.
Tim
Thanks much Adam.
Tim
Adam Wolff
EF0
Yep, mine crashed under 1.7.3 shortly after I posted I'm wiping and going back to 1.7.2.
No problem Tim.
No problem Tim.
Tim Vasquez
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I e-mailed Justin at OCS about this, so maybe they'll get a fix out.
Tim
Tim
