[melbourne-pug] Tool for capturing BOM radar as animated gif?

[Dave Collins]

Kevin,
I do not know the reason its only availble on some radars.

I *think* its due to lack of money.

dave

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 12:59:12PM +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> Wow, that's what I was looking for.  Why is it only on some radars  (apart
> from the fact it never rains in Carnarvon )?
> 
> Kevin
> On 09/01/2015 7:18 AM, "Dave Collins" <dave at hopest.net> wrote:
> 
> > Kevin,
> > There are rainfields products for some radars ....
> > http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR02D.loop.shtml
> >
> > On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 14:51 +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > I wrote to BOM some years ago to ask them if they could produce an
> > > 'integrated' radar image each 24 hours - each pixel would be a
> > > normalised sum of the pixel values.
> > >
> > >
> > > This would show the path of storm events and allow farmers to see (an
> > > estimate of) which parts of their property received more rain than
> > > other parts, without having to spend the whole day watching the
> > > images.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regrettably they declined this opportunity.  But perhaps they might if
> > > asked nicely package a 24-hour GIF for us all?  (this would be half
> > > way to a single summed image)
> > >
> > >
> > > Although they are probably undergoing a nasty treatment of Abbott's
> > > All Purpose Elixir at present, it may catch their imagination.  You
> > > never know unless you ask!
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Kevin.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 8 January 2015 at 13:52, Javier Candeira <javier at candeira.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >         Hi Melbourne pythonistas, happy New Year and apologies in
> > >         advance for
> > >         the potentially offtopic question.
> > >
> > >         I know the BOM radar image *isn't* an animated gif, but is
> > >         there a
> > >         tool in the wild that will capture and export it as a gif?
> > >
> > >         Bonus: it's not off topic if the tool is in Python, but
> > >         obviously I'm
> > >         agnostic enough to accept something written in PHP or
> > >         whatever.
> > >
> > >         Asking for a friend...
> > >
> > >         J
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