[paul.m]

The new V3 UK rainfall radar is now available on netweather, with a huge range of new features including custom/postcode zooms, cumulative rainfall displays, pixellated and smoothed view options plus more.

For more information on the radar and to use a fully functional demo, please visit this page

Some screenshots of the radar:

Cumulative display:

Zoom - smoothed:

Zoom - pixellated (5km):

Data overlay:

[paul.m]

Introducing netweather 4web:

This new service from netweather, is a free way for owners of websites to quickly place a weather forecast onto their site. The system is totally automatic, allowing you to create a forecast for anywhere in the UK with a choice of templates. All you then have to do is copy and paste the code into your site - the forecasts update on a daily basis.

For more information, visit the netweather 4web info page

This is one of the template options available:

[Sam Jowett]

That's excellent Paul... I spent ages looking for something suitable for my site and never found anything so gave up. Certainly happy with how it looks though: http://www.photoweather.com/aws/

Any chance of a template with a transparent background?

[Sam Jowett]

Btw... the "Click here for full forecast" link might acheive more hits if it opens in more than the 400 x 200 iframe! ;) Opening in a new window would be preferable as far as I'm concerned... :)

[Sam Jowett]

Oh, and to add to that :P ... I'm rather surprised there aren't any showers forecast for Coalville over the weekend given GFS is showing so many heavy showers?

[paul.m]

Hi Sam, glad you like it :)

Will sort the links out now - re the weather for the weekend - I think you may have taken the code before selecting your location from the box that appears, so you still have a generic london forecast there.

This code should do the trick:

[paul.m]

Ouch, some dodgy post formating going on there - just to add, I'll try and get some transparent frames done too :)

[paul.m]

I've fixed the link now, so it opens a new window. As i say, I think you've grabbed the wrong code for your site there though, best to go fetch it again and don't forget to highlight the location in the box which opens :)

[Sam Jowett]

I'll run through getting the code again later Paul [y]

[Sam Jowett]

Works much better when you actually select the coordinates you've retreived doesn't it! ;)

Any reason why it's forecasting yesterdays weather btw? :D

[paul.m]

Lol, good point - it's fixed now :D

[Sam Jowett]

That's better! ;) I take the "AM" temperature isn't the overnight minimum?

[paul.m]

No, it's not - the am time is from the 09z GFS timeslot and the pm time is from the 15z gfs timeslot.

[Sam Jowett]

OK [y] Would it look untidy to change the labels to "9AM" and "3PM" do you think?

[paul.m]

I think that would probably work ok - judging by feedback so far today (we've had a pretty good take up in the first few hours!), I would probably want to do it as an optional template change rather than across the board as many people really like them as is. Plan is to add more templates tomorrow so I'll get that into some of them. :)

[Sam Jowett]

Excellent, thanks Paul :D

[scanman]

This is superb......... Like Sam, I had been looking for something like this for my website too. Chuffed to bits, I am!!!!!! [hi]

[Sam Jowett]

Just curious Paul, I know you're moving house and this isn't urgent, but I'm in the process of slowly getting my site XHTML compliant. I notice iframe isn't supported under strict compliancy and will presumably be depricated in future versions. I'm fairly happy with transitional or framset compliancy, but strict would be better still. Is there any easy way you can provide forecast solely as an image to embed or something?

[paul.m]

Very quick announcement tonight - but just wanted to let you all know that Netweather Extra now carries the UK 5 minute rainfall radar, with 1km resolution (where available, 2km and 5km elsewhere).

The radar only subscription will remain at £19.50 for 1 year until the end of Feb (and to existing customers as long as they don't let their sub lapse), but beyond that it will increase to £23.95 a year.

More information is available here:

Netweather extra

[admin]

Paul, it looks amazing and is the holy grail for meteorologists. Any chance you could post a screenshot for people to see.