Spice up your videos!With archive weather data

Tony Perkins

What is archive weather data?Surface MapsRadar ImagesYour GPS locationStorm reports

Sources for archive dataNCDC: National Climatic Data Center

http://www.ncdc.noaa.govUpper Air1 and 5 minute METARSurface

Sources for archive dataHDSS:

http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pls/plhas/has.dsselect

Level2 and Level3 radar raw dataText files for everything else

Sources for archive dataSRSS Text ProductsWarnings, Volcanoes, METARs, you name it

Sources for archive dataPlymouth State: http://

vortex.plymouth.edu/u-make.html

Radar Images, Soundings, SFC Maps, Upper Air

Sources for archive dataStorm Prediction Center: http://

www.spc.noaa.govConvective Outlooks, Storm ReportsMesoscale Analysis Images, Mesoscale

Discussions

Sources for archive dataUCAR Image Archive:

http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/imagearchiveUpper Air, Soundings, Surface Maps (fronts),

Satellite

Sources for archive dataMore UCAR:

Save sequences of imagesRight click on an image and “Save Image As”Save multiple images to animate later

Surface Analysis Example

Using GRLevel3Meant for radar, but makes a decent GIS

mapperUses “Placefiles” to overlay data on the radar

Using GRLevel3Live data is abundant, but archive is

nonexistenthttp://grlevel3.tornadocentral.com

Making placefilesLook at existing placefilesFormat: http://

www.grlevelx.com/manuals/gis/files_places.htm

Importing GPS DataExport your data to a text filehttp://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert_input

Animating ImagesMencoder / FFMpeg: Combine images into a

videohttp://www.mplayerhq.hu

Imagemagick: Resize images, convert formats.http://www.imagemagick.org

Automation with AutoITFree Windows utility to simulate user inputhttp://www.autoitscript.com/

GRLevel3 automation demo

Scripts to make placefilesSoon available at:http://blueskybust.com/wxscripts

Movie Time!