Comments on: View NOAA/NWS NEXRAD in ArcGIS 9.x

By: Brian Crumpler

Brian Crumpler — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:06:05 +0000

With ArcGIS Explorer Coming out in the next week or so, radar and warning data will be viewable in ArcGIS and in ArcGIS Explorer.

http://radar.weather.gov/GIS.html has KML/KMZ warnings and radar outputs. They access the data on the NWS Website, and are updated every minute for warnings, and every two minutes for radar images.

By: dbSpatial

dbSpatial — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:20:27 +0000

NWS Weather Radar WMS:
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r-t.cgi?&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

Example using WMS-T (WMS with time ability):
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r-t.cgi?&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&layers=nexrad_base_reflect,nexrad-n0r-wmst&time=2004-08-23T20:35

Shown here in OpenLayers:
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/wmst.html

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:57:33 +0000

We plan to add WMS capability in the near future, but if you have ArcMAP you can connect to nowcoast.noaa.gov

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:30:24 +0000

Indeed. I was pretty excited about it when I downloaded it Monday, then I saw the readme too. Are there any WMS weather services?

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:41:15 +0000

This looks great. I almost installed it until I saw this in the README:

“IMPORTANT!!! THIS PROGRAM CREATES A FOLDER (www.srh.noaa.gov) TO STORE THE IMAGERY UNDER C:GISNWSRADAR AND SHOULD BE DELETED AFTER USE OR YOUR HARD DRIVE WILL BE OVER LOADED! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!”

I’ve been using accuweather that I found on Mapdex for my weather, and is working out pretty good.