[wxqc] Status of RADAR at EWX

[Ken True]

Really no trouble at all.. if you have a personal weather website with 
PHP, you can have the script invoked on your radar page ( like mine at 
http://saratoga-weather.org/radar.php ) in 'don't display if radar is 
active' mode.
When a radar issue crops up, a box is displayed at the top of the page 
with the status and any text messages about the radar from NOAA.  It 
just helps the viewers of the radar images on your site to see that the 
data may be stale, and why it is so (if NOAA has text messages about the 
outage).

Regards,
Ken
CW1792
http://saratoga-weather.org/

deertrail131 wrote:
> Sounds like a lot of work and trouble..............when the Radar site is
> down.  
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> NEXRAD Radar KEWX status: No Data [last data 81089 secs ago] as of Sun,
> 01-Jun-2008 12:49pm PDT
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> NWS WSR-88D Transmit/Receive Status
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> Ron DW0573 http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?DW0573
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Ken True
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> Date: 6/1/2008 1:43:39 PM
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> To: Discussion of weather data quality issues
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> Subject: Re: [wxqc] Status of RADAR at EWX
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> If you have PHP available on your weather website, you can use a small
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> script I wrote to show the status of the NEXRAD radar site.
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> Script is available from
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> http://saratoga-weather.org/scripts-NEXRAD.php#NEXRADStatus
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> Using it by invoking (on my site)
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> http://saratoga-weather.org/radar-status.php?nexrad=KEWX
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> shows
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> NEXRAD Radar KEWX status: No Data [last data 80189 secs ago] as of Sun,
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> 01-Jun-2008 12:34pm PDT
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> You can customize the script on your site for local timezone and default
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> NEXRAD site id.
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> Best regards,
>
> Ken
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> CW1792
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> David Dean wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> This is my first post to this list. I have been lurking since October 2007
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>> My question is what's up with the RADAR at EWX? The last image available
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>> time stamp of 2007 05 21  21:17 UTC. I am used to seeing the "down for
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>> maintenance" from time to time, but this is the longest.
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