A clean, simple, but powerful weather toolkit for the web browser. Includes NEXRAD parsing and plotting, doppler velocity dealiasing, weather alerts, real time lightning data, METAR station data, and much more.
You can find the app live here:
https://atticradar.steepatticstairs.net
The libraries that parse NEXRAD files client-side were provided by two python packages, which can be found here:
- Level 2 parsing comes from nexrad_level2.py, ported to JavaScript from pyart
- Level 3 parsing comes from nexrad.py, ported to JavaScript from MetPy
Inspiration for the app to be created, and some of the code for WebGL rendering, came from QuadWeather's radar app, which can be found here: https://radar.quadweather.com
Virtually all of the code for the doppler dealiasing algorithm comes from pyart. I used their region-based dealiasing algorithm. I go into more depth about the process behind this in the JavaScript dealiasing file in this project.
git clone https://github.com/SteepAtticStairs/AtticRadar.git
cd AtticRadar
npm install
npm run build
php -S 127.0.0.1:3333
then you can go to localhost:3333 or 127.0.0.1:3333 to view the website.
Using PHP as the local server was intentional, because of development that I do of server-side code that affects AtticRadar.
Browserify is used in AtticRadar to implement a moduling system. npm run build bundles the project with Browserify to be used in distribution.
You can also run
npm run serve
to use watchify (another project by Browserify) to auto-bundle the project every time you make a change.
Jul 13 2022- On that morning, I stumbled across QuadWeather's radar app, which was still in development, while browsing Twitter. This was the initial inspiration to create AtticRadar (called "NexradJS" at the time).Sep 10 2022- Renamed this project from "NexradJS" to "AtticRadar"Jun 28 2023- Updated URL from "steepatticstairs.net/AtticRadar" to "atticradar.steepatticstairs.net"