FULL CREDIT GOES TO netbymatt for pretty much all of this project.

He provided FOUR libraries:
nexrad-level-2-data
nexrad-level-2-plot
nexrad-level-3-data
nexrad-level-3-plot
that allowed for the development of this project. I only take credit for porting these Node apps to the browser with Browserify.

Pretty much all of the code that plots the data to the map using WebGL came from QuadWeather's Radar Demo page. Please go share him some love on Twitter.

His main radar page (which inspired this entire repository to be made) can be found here: https://radar.quadweather.com

In summary, the majority of this app was not made by me. I wanted to give the credit that was due to the people that made the frameworks of this app, because this website would not exist today if it weren't for the libraries / code snippets they provided. Here are their links again:

netbymatt (link to GitHub profile)
QuadWeather (link to Twitter profile)

git clone https://github.com/SteepAtticStairs/AtticRadar.git
cd AtticRadar
npm install
npm run build
php -S 127.0.0.1:8080

then you can go to localhost:8080 or 127.0.0.1:8080 to view the website.

(I used to use python3 -m http.server 8080, but it would frequently crash or freeze, which became extremely irritating. Although the php server functionality is really meant for php development, I have found that it works fine for this app, and it doesn't break like python's local server does.)

You can also run

npm run serve

to use watchify (a part of Browserify) to auto-bundle the project every time you make a change.

The website can be found live here:
https://steepatticstairs.github.io/AtticRadar/


You can add some parameters to the URL to make the app easier to use / bookmark. You can add

• #station=ICAO
• #tideStation=TIDESTATIONID

The first one is to set the app's initial station. This is the station the map would load radar products for / load METAR stations around, if there isn't a selected station. (The default will likely be either KLWX or KMHX, because those are the stations I use the most.) The second one is to set the default tide station. Here are some examples:

Sets the app's initial station to KHGX:

https://steepatticstairs.github.io/AtticRadar/#station=KHGX

Sets the app's initial tide station to 8724698 (Loggerhead Key):

https://steepatticstairs.github.io/AtticRadar/#tideStation=8724698

Sets the app's initial station to KHGX AND sets the tide station to 8724698:

https://steepatticstairs.github.io/AtticRadar/#station=KHGX&#tideStation=8724698

Notice how in the last example, the two parameters are separated by an ampersand (&) and still require a hash (#) before each parameter.

• Sep 10 2022 - Renamed this project from "NexradJS" to "AtticRadar"