Middle East Weather Radar
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Currently, the Windy weather radar shows a couple of locations in KSA, Qatar, Bahrain and there is nothing for the rest.
We need data for the whole middle eastern region rather than a bunch of areas in specific countries to provide better data for middle eastern users.
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@vvc
If there no weather radars network covering all Middle East area, but only some in few locations, you think that Windy can go there and install weather radar devices?
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What do you mean by weather network? Like one data provider for the whole region?
For example, https://www.yanbuweather.com/pages/RainRadar/compradar.php
This website provides a radar for all of Saudia Arabia
For UAE there is the official website,
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@vvc
When I talk about a weather radar installations network, I mean that the region must be covered by radar installations over the whole area, like the weather radar network in France as example.
If there are radars in UAE, that does not cover the whole Middle East. But they probably could be added to Windy if the data is open source.
And l must add that you can see some weather apps showing weather radar layer all over the world. This is not real radar data because it is sure there is no radar installations over the oceans. They just use rain forecast data and post process it as a radar-like layer.
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I understand now, thank you for the clear and precise explanation.
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Hi @vvc. We are trying to get better radar data/coverage for whole world, including Middle East. Unfortunately, radar data from Middle East are rarely easy to get.
For Saudi Arabia, currently our only provider is RainViewer. yanbuweather.com you mention in your previous post looks like it could be used as well, I'll look into it, thank you.
For UAE, the situation is most complicated. I was in contact with them a while ago and they are very unwilling to provide the data in any form. If you know if any way we could be provided with the data, we'll gladly incorporate it.
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@Filip_K hi, I know it’s been a while since this was posted but u think there’s any chance u could ask again? I’m in the UAE and I’m desperate for windy support and I think a load of other people here are too.
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Hi @Shahab-Joukar-2, looks like radars from yanbuweather.com are working again. I'll look into it again.
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@Filip_K Hi, I know this topic is kinda old, I figured I'd comment here instead of creating a new topic xD
Can't you use https://www.radar-flask.xyz/ for Saudi Arabia?
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Hi @YacineBoussoufa, thanks for sharing the URL. It looks promising, I'll look into it.
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@Filip_K Today there's some rain in Saudi, and seems like radar-flask.xyz is a valid source for such radar data.
Here's a comparison between radar-flask.xyz and yanbuweather.com, the only difference yanbu provides the data for the whole middle east (including Oman, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait) while radar-flask only provides data for Saudi Arabia...
It seems like radar-flask data shows a delay by 10 minutes, tho it seems to be real time instead... You can see radar-flask showing the time as 13:25 but it shows the exact same data of yanbu shown at 13:35 (showing localtime). So maybe it's just a printing timing error?
Also unlike yanbu the data is provided as an image overlay in the format "https://www.radar-flask.xyz/radar_image/titan/yyyy-MM-ddTHH-mm-ss" where mm is always a multiple of 5 and ss always 00.
Also unlike other countries sources, there is no location of the radars nor a coverage range, so if a radar goes offline it might be hard to determinate that and show "No Data"...
According to https://tropicalglobe.com/radar_database/?lat=23.832&lon=46.548&zoom=5 all Saudi Radars have a range of 250km and are located in several airports troughout the country, so for coverage it might easy to determine that, but still you might be unable to know when a radar goes offline... -
Hi @Filip_K any update on this?
