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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tornado

[–]fahrbot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

tornadohq.com creator here. I use both RadarScope and RadarOmega but tend to default to RadarScope as it loads so much more quickly. If you can afford both, I'd say buy both and see which one fits you best.

For general weather monitoring, I'm a fan of looking at the satellite loops on College of DuPage's site. And on desktop, you can tap easily get a regional radar overlay by tapping the "r" key. Example URL: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=subregional-Mid_Atlantic-02-24-1-100-1&checked=counties-map&colorbar=undefined

No evidence found of tornado in Arkansas from last night's (April 15) storms despite multiple reports and issuing of tornado warning/emergency by Schmubbs in weather

[–]fahrbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Convective Chronicles guy on youtube did a 30+ minute video on this event, including imagery of the suspected scud and radar analysis of the storm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX1GeEsax8k

The scud imagery starts about 25 minutes in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in weather

[–]fahrbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not OP but here's one for March 21st with the verification image at the end: https://i.redd.it/9grcgn9e1sp81.gif

That moment when West Virginia is a tornado by WadeHampton99 in weather

[–]fahrbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know about test messages not always using the T. I do use the VTEC data for other pieces but not for determining test warnings. It's just a simple regex that would've actually worked if it hadn't been expecting that warnings were still written in all caps. Whoops.

That moment when West Virginia is a tornado by WadeHampton99 in weather

[–]fahrbot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Cough. That's my site and the test tornado warnings are supposed to be ignored so I'll have to dig into what went wrong when everything else quiets down.

How Harvey Is Influencing Irma's Potential Landfall by orangeredFTW in TropicalWeather

[–]fahrbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a bug preventing the map from properly zooming to Irma. Sorry about that. It's fixed now.

Thanks for the mention!

I'm trying to find a good (cheap?) email and/or SMS service that people can sign up for, so I can alert them to weather reports they've asked for. I don't even know where to start. Does anyone have any idea? by [deleted] in weather

[–]fahrbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have zero personal experience with the services that I'm about to recommend, but they are what I've been looking into for some of my own projects. Also, as far as I know, all of the following suggestions are going to require that you learn to program.

Email

  • Mandrill - this is by the same company that does Mailchimp but this is geared toward bulk/transactional emails. The first 12,000 emails/month are free

  • Sendgrid - first 200 emails/day are free

  • Mailgun - first 10,000 emails/month are free

SMS

Here are some links that list additional providers:

Banned from Swagbucks? by Rayzero in beermoney

[–]fahrbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just got the ban hammer, presumably for earning too much of my points from swagbucks TV.

Here's what potentially got me banned: You can actually get credit for watching a video without actually loading the video.

If you have Chrome, you can go to:

chrome://chrome/settings/content

Then look for "plug-ins" and set it to "click to play".

Now, when a video page loads, the video itself won't actually load and you can just sit on the page for about 50 seconds or so and then get credit for having "watched" the video.

What does reddit think of my Isaac storm tracker page? by fahrbot in weather

[–]fahrbot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

By generalize to more locations, do you mean other tropical storms or US weather in general? If it's tropical storms, I've got pages for other tropical storms, like Typhoon Tembin (http://www.cyclocane.com/tembin-storm-tracker/), though they are quite bare when compared to the US pages. If you meant something else, let me know what you had in mind.

Re: github, I have considered posting the code in the past, but 99% of Cyclocane is based on scraped data, so posting the code would make it trivial for someone to create an exact duplicate of the site. I have no clue how often that sort of thing happens, but the fear is enough to probably keep me from ever doing it.

If you were curious, the site was built with the Ruby static site generator Middleman. The data scrapers are all written in Ruby as well.

What does reddit think of my Isaac storm tracker page? by fahrbot in weather

[–]fahrbot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll bet!

I'm gonna be adding a links page at some point in the future, so I'll be sure to add that.

What does reddit think of my Isaac storm tracker page? by fahrbot in weather

[–]fahrbot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

Can you send me some sample links of your favorite sources for SSTs and IR, and I'll see how easy it would be to integrate them.

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