Anyone notice the new experimental NWS radars?

[HouTXmetro]

I love the new radars.

[jasons2k]

A very nice app for radar display. Info at:

http://www.grlevelx.com/grlevel3/

Jan

Yea, it is a pretty good ap. I'd like to combine some of grlevel3 with the one I've used nexrad3. You can try the demo here http://www.hurricanealley.net/nexrad3.html

I love the fact you can smoothe out the radar images on the grlevel3. You can also hover your mouse over a radar image and get the exact db. With nexrad you can open multiple radar sites on one map, create maps to streetlevel and even create user points like your home, office, park, baseball stadium.

You can do points, etc. on GRLevel3 as well in addtion to uploading custom maps. I don't think you can do multiple sites on 1 map but usually 248nm is quite far enough

[hookemfins]

I don't think you can do multiple sites on 1 map but usually 248nm is quite far enough

What I mean by multiple sites is that on nexrad 3 you incorporate several different different radar sites into one map. While viewing the Miami area you can also include KY and Melbourne. That helps when the Miami radar goes down the other two pick up the slack. You can also have multiple sites up like the Miami radar going and Austin TX and others so you can monitor storms in various areas. Also in nexrad I can filter out some of the lower dbz to help reduce the ground clutter.

Both radars have their pros and cons. Both offer far more than what the NWS has.

On GRlevel3 how do you ungrey out the smooting box?

[NCHurricane]

On GRlevel3 how do you ungrey out the smooting box?

In the beta version, if your computer did not have a graphics card that would run smoothing, it would grey that box. Not sure if thats your situation, but I had that trouble with my computer.

[jasons2k]

On GRlevel3 how do you ungrey out the smooting box?

In the beta version, if your computer did not have a graphics card that would run smoothing, it would grey that box. Not sure if thats your situation, but I had that trouble with my computer.

It is probably a hardware issue. You need a pretty good graphics card to display the smoothing. The min. specs are in the support forums. Once you use it, you'll never go back.

I don't know how to do multiple sites on a single map, or if you can. But some of the mapping features and custom downloads are very in-depth with help in the forums. There are also alternative subscription feed sites that may enable multiple sites on a map, but I'm honestly not sure...hope this helps.