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I just tried out the new weather radar, and it was a mess. Extremely slow to update new tiles when scrolling around or zooming. Trying to "play" the radar had
by EMM_386 6y ago
I just tried out the new weather radar, and it was a mess. Extremely slow to update new tiles when scrolling around or zooming. Trying to "play" the radar had a 15 second delay. The browser console is full of errors.
And then, after a couple minutes of moving around the map, I can no longer access the site.
Is this the "data limiting" the article mentions??
> Access Denied
> You don't have permission to access "http://radar.weather.gov/ http://radar.weather.gov/" on this server.
> Reference #18.95fa3b17.1617393226.1c0a631b
- julienchastang 6y agoThere was a WaPo article about this too [1]. I feel bad for the software developers who had to work on this website. They were probably understaffed and under-resourced and had to release something they knew was not working. Edit: Note that the old radar.weather.gov was great and well-liked, but they had to get rid of it due to its reliance on Flash. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/21/nws-new-radar-website-slow/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/21/nws-new-ra...
- maxerickson 6y agoThere were gifs. Oh the gifs. The animated loop for a radar station would load in ¼ second. (this is the radar lite that they could have left up without flash)
- superkuh 6y agoI miss them too. Try out this https://s.w-x.co/staticmaps/wu/wu/wxtype1200_cur/conus/animate.png https://s.w-x.co/staticmaps/wu/wu/wxtype1200_cur/conus/anima... It's the best simple animated CONUS weather radar gif I could find with a static URL.