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    • McGr1m3
      McGr1m3 Meteorologist last edited by

      In Australia we have free access as to the government run (Bureau Of Meteorology) Unsure if they would allow this to be utilised for another weather site but worth a try.

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        TZ Administrator @Gkikas LGPZ last edited by

        @meteo-GR Thank you, radareu.cz is nice composition, but we are looking for original data (not png) and we want to access them in legal way.

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        • TZ
          TZ Administrator last edited by

          An example of good data storage:
          http://thredds.met.no/thredds/catalog/radarnowcasting/catalog.html
          The data is raw and georeferenced, exactly what we need. Many thanks to guys from Norwegian Meteorological Institute!!!

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          • TheRadarGuy
            TheRadarGuy Moderator last edited by

            Sorry, but it looks like Environment Canada only offers radar data in GIF format. I'll keep trying for other countries though. And I figured out how to get Australian weather radar. It's $1830 a year plus another $1025 as a one time fee. http://reg.bom.gov.au/other/charges.shtml

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              ivo Administrator @TheRadarGuy last edited by

              @TheRadarGuy Thanks for help

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                leapenn last edited by

                Bahamas Weather is free.

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                  palo last edited by

                  and how about post question (from windy team) here?

                  https://opendata.stackexchange.com
                  https://opendata.stackexchange.com/search?q=weather

                  (why we pay gowerment expensive data twice...?)

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                  • TheRadarGuy
                    TheRadarGuy Moderator last edited by

                    @TomSlavkovsky @ivo I think I found radar data for Sweden. There is some other data in there you might also want to take a look at. Like: weather forecasting models, ocean information and warnings data.
                    http://opendata.smhi.se/apidocs/

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                      TomSlavkovsky | Premium last edited by

                      @TheRadarGuy Thx for the link, I have contacted the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute and there is a fee for HDF5 format - 24.000 SEK per year.

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                        TomSlavkovsky | Premium last edited by

                        @leapenn Could send me a link for the data?

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                          henderson last edited by

                          Do you have a list of providers that have already agreed to share this information?

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                          • Tomber42
                            Tomber42 Moderator last edited by

                            Germany's National Meteorological Service DWD offers most data as opendata, radars included
                            http://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/opendata/opendata.html

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                              Snipersupersix last edited by

                              The University of Bonn (Germany, Rhineland Palatinate) operates a local rain radar. The range is about 120km around Bonn.
                              There are also no commercial interests behind it I think and they pass the data to you perhaps.
                              https://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/messdaten/radarbilder/aktuelle-bilder-1/komposit
                              Contact: Malte.Diederich@uni-bonn.de

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                                Tomber42 Moderator @Snipersupersix last edited by

                                @Snipersupersix I think this is part of opendata of DWD, they offer radar data from all German radar stations

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                                • chstdu
                                  chstdu last edited by chstdu

                                  Here is a huge list of radar data sources, but probably mainly images and not raw: rainviewer sources Although raw data is better, a composite from images would be great beta version!

                                  Edit: Link should work now!

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                                    angus-morgan last edited by

                                    UK Met Office Data is available free through their DataPoint API (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint/product/rainfall-radar-map-layer). API documentation: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/3/0/datapoint_api_reference.pdf

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                                      LaMenchos last edited by

                                      Awaiting response from Colombian agency in charge of radar data. And crossing fingers.

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                                        ghoyarbide | Premium last edited by

                                        Hi, in Argentina

                                        http://radar.inta.gov.ar/v3/

                                        http://www.smn.gov.ar/?mod=radar&id=1

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                                          gabrielef71 last edited by gabrielef71

                                          Hi !
                                          In Europe we have Opera Project under the umbrella of Eumetnet that work on an European Mosaic.
                                          You can find the animation here: http://eumetnet.eu/activities/observations-programme/current-activities/opera-radar-animation/

                                          Regards.
                                          Gabriele

                                          P.S. Sorry I did not read the introduction... you of course already know of Opera... ;)

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                                            ivo Administrator @gabrielef71 last edited by

                                            @gabrielef71 Yes for 80.000 EUR a year even when already paid by taxpayers money.

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