New Zealand radar service
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@Korina I'm sorry I missed your reply! I can't see a way on your forum to be notified (by email) of replies in a specific thread you follow or a way to get notified of direct replies. :(
Anyway, I was thinking it might be better for the request to come from your end since you'd have to be asking for the access as well at the same time? They seem really responsive and helpful. What they have available right now is:
3 hourly radar reflectivity (rainfall rate) images, in colour: available via MetWeb FTP access - contact us and ask for Open Access Rain Radar images
Let me know if don't hear from them and I can try emailing the guy I was conversing with again. Thanks!
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Can some of the points raised here maybe be followed up please?
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@jmh2002 Agreed. I can try to assist again by contacting the NZ Met Service again, but it would be good to know that Windy is going to be able to do the work to hook this up if so. But it would probably be better if Windy contacted them directly I think since they are the ones using the data. :)
And the New Caledonia radar mentioned by @idefix37 would be great too.
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@Korina No major pressure but I was wondering if we could get some premium user support on this item please. 😋 And let me know if I can help.
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@onetrev Hello, our development team will look into this and if it is possible, they will consider adding NZ radar again.
Korina
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Great news. Let me know if I can assist here if necessary?
The NZ radar is available free on the https://www.rainviewer.com/weather-radar-map-live.html site.
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@korina I realised today I hadn't checked out the New Zealand radar on the Windy for a month or so. I just looked and I noticed it looks like you have it online! Hooray! Right now it seems a bit glitchy, it only shows one image for the last hour. Hopefully that's just a temporary issue. :)
I also noticed you guys added New Caledonia as @idefix37 had suggested, so that was great to see too, and it works perfectly I see.
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@onetrev said in New Zealand radar service:
I also noticed you guys added New Caledonia as @idefix37 had suggested
Yes It's works. But there is no radar image in North of New Caledonia island. This is because the radar antenna has been destroyed in 2019 by tropical cyclone Oma.
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Nice! I'll definitely be testing this daily from now on.
THANKS! to all of the Windy Team :)
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Japan's weather radar hasn't been working the last few days on Windy :(
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@motorcycle said in New Zealand radar service:
Japan's weather radar hasn't been working the last few days on Windy :(
Please post a new separate topic if you are still having issues. Japan's radar is not relevant to NZ's radar.
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@motorcycle Hello, we will look into this. Thank you for report.
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Not sure if the Windy NZ Radar maight be having some issues but the image seems quite different to what is available from Rainviewer and the MetService NZ (source). Please see the screenshots to follow:
Windy:
Rainviewer:
MetService NZ (source):
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@jmh2002 Hello, our radar seems aligned with the Rainviewer now.
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Are you sure? For me the radar for NZ still sometimes shows "no data" and consistently shows the radar image with "lines" like indicated in example number 3 in your post here https://community.windy.com/topic/10732/weather-radar-with-lines-and-radar-availability/2?_=1594720632201 suggesting "Interference of radar connection, so we show the last image taken before the cut"
Below is the previous image again for reference.
I'd appreciate if you can please check the NZ radar again please, thanks :)
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@jmh2002
Hi, Jason
We see these ‘’lines’’ quite often in France and in UK. As far as I understand, they are not due to radar interference, but because the last image from the radar provider is not received in time to be included in the loop. So it is the previous image, but with stripes, which is shown.It take a long time to get images from down under :-)
(I’m joking as we get the same in Europe).EDIT: In New Zealand radar, it is not only the last image in the loop which is missing, but sometime several.
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Yes, I took the quote and the word "interference" from Korina's post in the other thread but I assumed it meant a problem with the connection to receive the radar data? (and that's what it looks like).
We had clear skies for a couple of weeks but we have rain for a few days this week so that's why I'm checking on it.
The same problem still seems to exist today.
Also I think the problem is more than just displaying the 'last image with stripes'.
The amount of precipation activity shown on the radar is nowhere near correct compared to Rainviewer or the source: MetService NZ (links above in previous posts).
It seems like the data is not being received / computed / displayed correctly.
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I would say from checking out the MetService, Windy and Rainviewer that indeed they do look pretty similar.
It's great we finally have something for NZ again, but it is a major bummer that the radar images only update every hour or so instead of every 8 minutes as they do on MetService (and I think that time frame is industry standard).
I'm not sure if this is a limitation of their API @Korina? If it is I can try to email them and bug them about this.
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@onetrev said in New Zealand radar service:
I would say from checking out the MetService, Windy and Rainviewer that indeed they do look pretty similar.
Are you sure? Please double check my screenshots on page 1. Yes the general outline is similar but the definition is not even close.
It's not meant to be like that. if you zoom out and look at another country you can make a better comparison to how it should look.
It seems like there won't be much rain to see on the radar over the weekend but from Monday it should be raining again - good for testing if not for the beach :)
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Hi, the NZ radar has been down on Windy for nearly week now. Are we able to get this fixed?
