Many moons ago (like 52), I expressed discontent with available Doppler radar weather services, citing a lack of user-friendliness and clunky UIs. I had concluded that I should instead design my own by “borrowing” NOAA’s static map image and embedding it with some CSS into my own page with a timed refresh. It may have been a shameless hack, but it did what I wanted it to do.
But recently, I noticed that the image no longer appeared. I suspected that NOAA’s admins finally restricted embedding, as doing so is a standard security practice. I sighed sadly at the prospect of being forced to use a commercial product once again.
Originally, to get the radar image, I had to dig through their source code. I considered that maybe the file name just changed, so I went back to NOAA. And to my surprise, I found that they had completely overhauled their weather site, replacing their own radar page with a dynamic, higher-rez version that auto-refreshes: essentially what I was trying to create originally.
So my point is that this renders my own page moot. I’ve updated the link accordingly to redirect to their site. I’m just glad to have back what I wanted originally.
–Simon