12-11-2021, 11:58 AM
My 'software' workbench has had a project mostly-finished and triggered by the recent rain here in VK4. It was a thought back last year but the rain made me sit in the recliner and put it into practice:
The software does a 'grab' of the selected BOM rain radar and saves the image to local file once every 6 minutes - with a few provisos. You can then open the 'save folder' and view all images with an application that allows rapid scrolling between image files (I use Imageglass) and you can see the movement of the rain over time. (You slowly lose it if you directly view any of the BOM radar sites.)
All Aus BOM radar site details can be accessed and the selected details are saved for a subsequent session.
The downloaded GIF image size must be greater than the user-set threshold size to be saved to file, anything too small is ignored. You set the reference threshold only when there is no rain evident on the radar of interest...
I have a copy running on a low performance laptop that runs 24x7 and it provides a great graphical history of when & where the rain has fallen.
No current plans to make it into an article on my web site but if there is enough interest by others, maybe.
Sample stored image :
Doug VK4ADC
The software does a 'grab' of the selected BOM rain radar and saves the image to local file once every 6 minutes - with a few provisos. You can then open the 'save folder' and view all images with an application that allows rapid scrolling between image files (I use Imageglass) and you can see the movement of the rain over time. (You slowly lose it if you directly view any of the BOM radar sites.)
All Aus BOM radar site details can be accessed and the selected details are saved for a subsequent session.
The downloaded GIF image size must be greater than the user-set threshold size to be saved to file, anything too small is ignored. You set the reference threshold only when there is no rain evident on the radar of interest...
I have a copy running on a low performance laptop that runs 24x7 and it provides a great graphical history of when & where the rain has fallen.
No current plans to make it into an article on my web site but if there is enough interest by others, maybe.
Sample stored image :
Doug VK4ADC
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