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Tornado Tim wrote:Anyway I can get rid of horrible Tan colour by making a php script to take it out

jamie.haultain wrote:wikid stuff. Love the west coast radar. its full of blind spots though. bet they had a hard time finding the best spot for it.

westcoast is showing up on the metconnect account i use on the full country image but still no individual radar option. im sure it will appear in due course.

Jasestorm wrote:I wonder where the radar station is set up on the coast? maybe somewhere simular to Denniston very open to the coastline west and north without not too many hills in the way.

Blue Spur Range, 8km inland from Hokitika.

RAIN RADAR IN REAL TIME ON METSERVICE WEBSITE
November 24, 2011

Today MetService launched real-time rain radar coverage of New Zealand on its website, metservice.com. For the last hour, images are every 7.5 minutes – the time it takes for each radar to go through one scan of its coverage area and send back an image – which means the images are effectively updated in real time.

“This is the culmination of a substantial project to investigate and test how we could make our rain radar coverage on the website even more useful to the New Zealand public,” said MetService deputy chief executive Mark Ottaway.

Previously, rain radar on the site updated hourly for the last eight hours.Following extensive investigation into enhancements of the product for public use, MetService first trialled more frequently updated radar coverage over Christchurch after February’s earthquake. The systems worked well for the trial and the team received a lot of positive feedback, so the company decided to continue the project and invest in a permanent solution for the entire country. A second step-up came with the grounding of the Rena, where MetService took the opportunity to test a further enhanced service over the Bay of Plenty region.

“Our trials confirmed that we could provide additional peace of mind to the public with a more immediate view of incoming rain,” said Ottaway.”While rain radar data are just part of a wide range of inputs necessary to make good weather forecasts and decisions, MetService is always looking at ways to provide more information to those who are interested – particularly to the public through metservice.com.”

As of today coverage is now nationwide, providing real-time updates for the last hour and hourly updates for the previous eight hours.

For further information please contact:
Jacqui Bridges General Manager Communications 04 4700777

http://metpr.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/r ... e-website/

Tahii wrote:Next time I'm talking to Tony Quale, I'll pass it on that everyone's happy with the change

iomkiwi wrote:

Tahii wrote:Next time I'm talking to Tony Quale, I'll pass it on that everyone's happy with the change

I've already passed on that message in an email (and from his reply I suspect he may have had a look around here )

Tornado Tim wrote:Good that its up but it seems a little too far zoomed out.
Also I prefer those complete transparent images not that yuck tannish colour overlay, why on earth did they add that for! If they wanted to show where the radar coverage stopped they should have added a border instead of an overlay.

They also need to fix the colour scheme of the radar, it should be like the US and Australian Radars are.

Nev wrote:Don't want to appear ungrateful

Tahii wrote:

Nev wrote:Don't want to appear ungrateful

If you want this and that and the other, either set up a PHP script to alter the colours onto your own overlays, or purchase a MetConnect login.

Tahii wrote:If you want the nice shiny version, all the zoom-in stuff, longer scans, purchase a login to metconnect. If they give away too much for free, noone will want the pay version.