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Weather station scripts - Images and Handlers

They're free, but use at your own risk

The scripts referenced here are used in the operation of this weather station, and may be freely copied and used to support your station. Please note that you use these scripts at your own risk. No warranty is expressed or implied. I accept no liability for any damages that may ensue from their use.
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This page was updated Monday, 13-Sep-2010 11:39 AM

Image handling scripts


Wind direction Icons

The following wind direction icons are 14x14 transparent GIF files:

S SSW SW WSW W WNW NW NNW N NNE NE ENE E ESE SE SSE

Wind Direction Icons: download [ see version history ]

You can easily use these icons with the wind direction (example for Weather-Display) by using this PHP code:

<?php
$avgspd = "%avgspd%"; // average wind speed (current)
$dirlabel = "%dirlabel%"; // wind direction (NNE etc)
if (strip_units($avgspd) <= 0.1 ) { echo "Calm";
} else { ?><img src="./images/<?php echo $dirlabel; ?>.gif" height="14" width="14" title="Wind from <?php echo $dirlabel; ?>" alt="Wind from <?php echo $dirlabel; ?>" /> <?php echo $dirlabel; ?>@ <?php echo strip_units($avgspd); ?> mph<?php } ?>

<?php
// strip trailing units from a measurement
// i.e. '30.01 in. Hg' becomes '30.01'
function strip_units ($data) {
preg_match('/([\d\.\+\-]+)/',$data,$t);
return $t[1];
} ?>

Resize Nexstorm.jpg and wasp2.png scripts

This script will resize the nexstorm.jpg graphic and cache the result. It is used on my lightning.php page to force the width of the image to be 640px max (so it fits in the layout of the website). The second script does the same for the WASP2 PNG image.

<img src="resize-nexstorm-image.php" alt="NexStorm Display" width="640" height="445" />
NexStorm Display

Resize Nexstorm JPG PHP script: download [ see version history ]

<img src="resize-wasp2-image.php" alt="Wide Area Storm Probe 2" width="640" height="562" />

Wide Area Storm Probe 2

Resize WASP-2 PNG PHP script: download [ see version history ]

Fetch/resize/cache NOAA Image of the Day script

This script will get and cache locally the NOAA Image of the Day, and download, resize and cache the image if it is updated on the NOAA server. I use it in my NOAA Image of the Day page.

This script uses three files for caching, so please make sure that they are writable by PHP so the script will operate properly. The cache files needed are:

  • IOD-page-cache.txt (used for cache storage of nnvl page HTML)
  • IOD-image-full.jpg (used for cache storage of full-size IOD image)
  • IOD-image.jpg (used for cache storage of current IOD image resized to new width/height)

If your installation of the script shows the error message of:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

followed by a series of other error messages, it is likely due to your PHP not permitting a fopen() on an URL. To fix, create (or modify) a php.ini file in the document root of your website and insert the line

allow_url_fopen = on;

into the php.ini file, and upload to your website. That will allow the script to fetch the graphic image from the NOAA website.

Some installations have had a PHP error citing insufficient memory to perform the resizing operations. If you receive this, try putting

php_value memory_limit 32M

in your php.ini. That seems to be sufficient to process the largest image files seen to date.

The image is resized to 620x349px to fit in the WD/AJAX/PHP template narrow width style. The full-size image is 960x540 (low res version).

<?php include_once("get-nnvl-iod.php"); ?>

Three Storm Systems Tracked by GOES Satellite

Three Storm Systems Tracked by GOES Satellite

Merging both GOES East and West imagery, three weather systems are shown spanning the U.S. To the far west, a stationary system is currently dumping up to two feet of snow over the Denver region. In the South and Plains, a line of severe storms stretches from Texas to Missouri. Over the Atlantic the remnants of an extratropical storm move out to sea. Data from the GOES-15 and -13 satellites were acquired on February 3, 2012 at 1715z.

Courtesy of NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory

Fetch/Resize/Cache NOAA Image of the day PHP script: download [ see version history ]

Note: this script replaces the resize-NOAA-IOD.php script as the Image Of the Day has moved to a new website and the resize-NOAA-IOD.php would not work with the new website's presentation.

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