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GRLevelX Placefiles and generator scripts

The Radar viewing software GRLevel3 (and GR2Analyst and GREarth) all allow add-on functionality via placefiles which can show a variety of additional information on the radar displays.
Saratoga-weather is happy to provide some placefiles from our website for free use with GRLevelX software, and the respective scripts to produce the placefiles are available on GitHub in case you would like to run copies of the scripts.

NWS Land and Marine Alerts placefiles

This script set gets JSON alert data from api.weather.gov/alerts and formats a placefile for GRLevelX software.
The 'areas' links provide a filled-in, color-coded area applying to the alert with a mouse-over icon to display details about the alert in a tooltip pop-up.
The 'outlines' links provide a color-coded outline of the alert area that pops up a tooltip with details about the alert.

Placefiles to use in GRLevelX Placefile Manager window
NWS Land Alert areashttps://saratoga-weather.org/alerts-placefile/alert-areas.php
NWS Land Alert outlineshttps://saratoga-weather.org/alerts-placefile/alert-details.php
NWS Marine Alert areashttps://saratoga-weather.org/alerts-placefile/alert-marine-areas.php
NWS Marine Alert outlines https://saratoga-weather.org/alerts-placefile/alert-marine-details.php

The scripts are available on GitHub at https://github.com/ktrue/NWS-alerts-placefile if you would like to run the scripts on your personal weather website.

These scripts do not require cron -- data is gathered and cached every 5 minutes automatically,

Sample Display

NWS Alerts with areas shaded NWS Alerts with areas outlined NWS Marine Alerts with areas shaded NWS Marine Alerts with areas outlined NWS Alerts/Marine Alerts outlined and shaded NWS Alerts with North American Regional Network memeber sites
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NWS Alerts with areas shaded
NWS Alerts with areas shaded

NWS Storm Prediction Center Convective Risk placefiles

This script set gets JSON outlook data from the SPC GIS Convective Outlooks and formats a placefile for GRLevelX software to display outlines of the areas with risk hazards. A mouse-over the line will popup a text tooltip with details about the risk area.

The SPC-placefile.php script is to be accessed by including the website URL in the GRLevelX placefile manager window.

Placefiles to use in GRLevelX Placefile Manager window
SPC Day 1https://saratoga-weather.org/SPC-placefile/day1.php
SPC Day 2https://saratoga-weather.org/SPC-placefile/day2.php
SPC Day 3https://saratoga-weather.org/SPC-placefile/day3.php
SPC Day 4https://saratoga-weather.org/SPC-placefile/day4.php
SPC Day 5https://saratoga-weather.org/SPC-placefile/day5.php
SPC Day 6https://saratoga-weather.org/SPC-placefile/day6.php
SPC Day 7https://saratoga-weather.org/SPC-placefile/day7.php
SPC Day 8https://saratoga-weather.org/SPC-placefile/day8.php

The scripts are available on GitHub at https://github.com/ktrue/SPC-placefile if you would like to run the scripts on your personal weather website.

These scripts do not require cron -- data is gathered and cached every 8 minutes automatically,

Sample Display

SPC Day 1 sample SPC Day 2 sample SPC Day 3 sample SPC All-Risks sample
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SPC Day 1 sample
SPC Day 1 sample

METAR conditions placefile

This script set gets METAR data from aviationweather.gov and formats a placefile for GRLevelX software to display icons for weather conditions/sky conditions, wind barbs for wind direction/speed, and mouse-over popups with text for the current METAR report from the station.

Placefile to use in GRLevelX Placefile Manager window
METAR placefilehttps://saratoga-weather.org/metar/metar-placefile.php

The scripts are available on GitHub at https://github.com/ktrue/metar-placefile if you would like to run the scripts on your personal weather website.

Note that this script set has a part to gather the data to be run via cron.

Sample Display

METAR conditions display METAR Icon Legend METAR Icon Sky/Conditions Legend
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METAR conditions display
METAR conditions display

RAWS conditions placefile

This script set gets data from the National Interagency Fire Center Public View - Interagency Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) and formats a placefile for GRLevelX software to display icons for Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS), and mouse-over popups with text for the current observation from the RAWS.

Placefile to use in GRLevelX Placefile Manager window
RAWS placefilehttps://saratoga-weather.org/RAWS-placefile/RAWS.php

The scripts are available on GitHub at https://github.com/ktrue/RAWS-placefile if you would like to run the scripts on your personal weather website.

Note that this script set has a part to gather the data to be run via cron.

Sample Display

RAWS conditions display RAWS Icon Legend
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RAWS conditions display
RAWS conditions display

AHPS data from NOAA-AHPS stream gauge levels

This script set gets AHPS data from water.weather.gov and formats a placefile for GRLevelX software to display icons for stream gauge levels/alerts, and mouse-over popups with text for the current observation from the gauge.

Placefile to use in GRLevelX Placefile Manager window
AHPS All Gaugeshttps://saratoga-weather.org/ahps/ahps-placefile.php
AHPS Alerts only Gauges
(Low Levels, Near Flood,
Minor Flood, Moderate Flood,
Major Flood)
https://saratoga-weather.org/ahps/ahps-placefile-alerts.php

The scripts are available on GitHub at https://github.com/ktrue/ahps-placefile if you would like to run the scripts on your personal weather website.

Note that this script set has a part to gather the data to be run via cron.

Sample Display

AHPS gauges only in alert condition AHPS all gauges display
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AHPS gauges only in alert condition
AHPS gauges only in alert condition

Buoy data from NOAA-NDBC buoy observations

This script set gets buoy data from www.ndbc.noaa.gov and formats a placefile for GRLevelX software to display icons for buoys, and mouse-over popups with text for the current observation from the buoy.

Placefile to use in GRLevelX Placefile Manager window
Buoy Datahttps://saratoga-weather.org/buoy-placefile/buoys.php

The scripts are available on GitHub at https://github.com/ktrue/buoy-placefile if you would like to run the scripts on your personal weather website.

Note that this script set has a part to gather the data to be run via cron.

Sample Display

West Coast buoy sample Great Lakes buoy sample East Coast buoy sample
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West Coast buoy sample
West Coast buoy sample

USA Blitzortung North American lightning placefiles

Saratoga-weather.org operates a Blitzortung lightning detector so we offer placefiles for lightning detection from Blitzortung.org network.
The placefiles contain the same stroke information with four different timezones and choice of 'B' marked or plain lightning icons.

Placefile to use in GRLevelX Placefile Manager window
(Pacific time) icons with 'B' https://saratoga-weather.org/USA-blitzortung/placefile.txt
(Mountain time) icons with 'B' https://saratoga-weather.org/USA-blitzortung/placefileMT.txt
(Central time) icons with 'B' https://saratoga-weather.org/USA-blitzortung/placefileCT.txt
(Eastern time) icons with 'B' https://saratoga-weather.org/USA-blitzortung/placefileET.txt
(Pacific time) plain icons https://saratoga-weather.org/USA-blitzortung/placefile-nob.txt
(Mountain time) plain icons https://saratoga-weather.org/USA-blitzortung/placefile-nobMT.txt
(Central time) plain icons https://saratoga-weather.org/USA-blitzortung/placefile-nobCT.txt
(Eastern time) plain icons https://saratoga-weather.org/USA-blitzortung/placefile-nobET.txt

The scripts are available on GitHub at https://github.com/ktrue/BO-mapgen if you would like to run the scripts on your personal weather website.

Note that this script set has a part to gather the data to be run via cron.
You must be operating a Blitzortung detector that is sending data to Blitzortung.org as the script requires a Blitzortung userid:password to run.

Sample Display

Blitzortung Eastern Time - strokes with 'B' Blitzortung Eastern Time - plain strokes
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Blitzortung Eastern Time - strokes with 'B'
Blitzortung Eastern Time - strokes with 'B'

North American Regional Weather Networks

The North American Weather website was founded by Jack Ahern in May, 2008 as a home site and forum for the growing number of Affiliated Regional Weather Networks around the world. It provides a platform to run the global collection process for station data (for presentation on the global map) and to generate lists of member networks and tally an overall member station count.

This placefile has popup tooltip conditions displays for all members of the Regional Networks in the USA. Conditions are sampled at 5 minute intervals and stations reporting conditions in the prior hour are included in the display. Both Regional map and Global map scripts are available for use on personal weather websites.

Placefile to use in GRLevelX Placefile Manager window
NAWX members conditionshttps://www.northamericanweather.net/members-placefile.txt

The scripts used to produce this placefile are only run on the NAWX website. You can submit an application to join a regional network by filling out a Join/Signup request at the appropriate Regional network listed below.

Sample Display

North American Regional Network PWS Member conditions North American Regional Network PWS Member conditions
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North American Regional Network PWS Member conditions
North American Regional Network PWS Member conditions

Affiliated Regional Weather Networks

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