Last updated: 9/4/02 Welcome to the weather locker! This locker serves as a depository for all sorts of useful weather data, graphics, and information. If you can think of anything weather-related that you'd like to see added here, please send some email to ericldab@mit.edu. The locker is currently structured as follows: Directory Contents --------- -------- RADAR/ Last 72 hours of New England radar NEXRAD/ Last 72 hours of Boston NexRad images SATELLITE/infrared/ Last 72 hours of U.S. infrared satellite images SATELLITE/visible/ Last 72 hours of U.S. visible satellite images MISCIMAGES/ Miscellaneous images INFO/ Various informative text files and FAQs bin/ Executable programs man/ Manual pages for installed programs A separate README file resides in each image directory, giving brief descriptions of the images therein. Also, the following links make it easy to view the latest image in each series: /mit/weather/RADAR/latest /mit/weather/NEXRAD/latest /mit/weather/SATELLITE/infrared/latest /mit/weather/SATELLITE/visible/latest Please note that these images described above can really only be viewed on grayscale or color displays. Too much information is lost when you try to view them on a monochrome display. (This was more pertinent back when [Project] Athena used monochrome displays!) The bin directories currently contain the following programs, which should already be in your path if you've issued an "add weather" command: weather - A text-based version of xweather. This program can be used to obtain weather data for any given city from the unix prompt. The man page for this command lists options which make it Zephyr-friendly, too. animate - A tool for viewing "loops" of the images described above. This is a CPU- and memory-intensive program when used to show a long series of GIFs, but it's worth it! Thanks to the following people for helping me by making various contributions to the weather locker: Laura Baldwin (boojum@mit.edu) Carla Fermann (carla@mit.edu) Richard Barbalace (rjbarbal@mit.edu) Erik Wile (esw@mit.edu) Enjoy! Eric McDonald. This is experimental software. Please send any suggestions, comments or bug reports to ericldab@mit.edu.