Real Weather Radar software for linux

[kd8hho]

Now I have looked and looked till i got a headache all I seem to find is lame "gadgets" for Firefox or gnome ect.

where is the REAL radar software for Linux there is tons for windoze "Storm predator,SwiftWX" is just a couple. but i think software for linux would rock since *nix is alot more stable then windowz.

(really sucks tracking tornadic storms and get the blue screen of death with windoze)

[StarWolf]

Radar Tools 0.20 this wasn't to your liking ?
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Radar-Tools-Download-2100.html

[dibl]

I probably don't understand -- here is what I use:

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx?location=USIL1114&enlarge=true&animate=true

[kjjjjshab]

weatherunderground is the absolute BEST radar available, because it is always a few minutes quicker than all others, and give you storm cell tracking, with hail size, etc. and "radar-indicated" tornado info...

As a website, it is probably as close to real software that you can get.

http://www.wunderground.com/

[andy753421]

(bringing up an older topic I found on google)

The old standard for weather stuff on Unix/Linux is GEMPAK, it's a bit complicated to use, but is extremely powerful.
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/

IDV is a more modern approach that uses Java, as such it's a bit slower:
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/

I've never tired it, but WDSS-II looks pretty good. It's not open source, but is free for educational and non-profit research use.
  http://www.wdssii.org/

Some of the windows applications work to some extent under Wine as well..

I've been meaning to write something of my own as well but haven't got around to making anything functional yet.

[kjjjjshab]

(bringing up an older topic I found on google)

The old standard for weather stuff on Unix/Linux is GEMPAK, it's a bit complicated to use, but is extremely powerful.
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/

IDV is a more modern approach that uses Java, as such it's a bit slower:
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/

Bah. What is wrong with me... I can't believe I forgot about the great resource that is the ucar.edu site... nice addition to the topic! 

[raconteur]

I've noticed a dearth of useful desktop weather radar apps for Linux as well.

I'm the creator and maintainer of StormPredator, and I'm launching an open-source project to fill that void.

My plan as of today is to make it a KDE app and to allow the program to use data from a user-selectable range of data sources, including NEXRAD Level II or Level III data or published images from NOAA/NWS. The Level II data is a subscriber feed, the Level III and imagery are free of charge. Of course the program will be published under the GPL and will be free of any fees, advertisements, or entanglements.

StormPredator's target audience is the casual user, with emphasis on ease of use and understanding vs. the technical jargon and visual clutter that pervades some other weather radar display programs, and I intend to carry that philosophy into the Linux application as well. Due to intellectual property agreements I have entered into, the program will bear no resemblance to its Windows counterpart, but I can and will make the user experience as straightforward and simple as I can while preserving the same range of features of other programs whose target audiences are more meteorologically and technically inclined.

I have no idea what sort of development time will be involved, but I'll post back occasionally with any pertinent info.

[GreyGeek]

weatherunderground is the absolute BEST radar available, because it is always a few minutes quicker than all others, and give you storm cell tracking, with hail size, etc. and "radar-indicated" tornado info...

As a website, it is probably as close to real software that you can get.

http://www.wunderground.com/

+1

I also subscribe, for $12/yr, and get a display void of ads and other cpu cycle stealers.  Being able to follow lightening strikes, hail storm tracks, tornado vectors, etc. with a time delay of no longer than 7 minutes is nice.

[andy753421]

(bringing up the same old topic again/shameless plug)

I've done a bit more work on the program I've been writing so I figured I'd post a pointer for anyone that's interested in trying it or helping out.

There's a few tricky dependencies (RSL, recent GTK+) and I haven't done anything with packaging it for distros yet.. Anyway, you can read more about it at http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/wiki/AWeather