Open Romanian Radar Data
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Dear Windy developers,
I wanted to bring to your attention that data from Romanian weather radars is now available through an open data server: https://opendata.meteoromania.ro/radar/.
This new data source offers significant advantages over the current one, which (as far as I know) relies on image overlays from https://www.meteoromania.ro/radarm/radar.index.php. Specifically:
- Lower update delay: about 4-5 minutes, compared to ~15-minute delay of the current source.
- Faster individual radar updates: If data from individual radars is used instead of the composite, the update interval is 5 minutes rather than 10 minutes.
In my opinion, integrating this source could improve real-time weather tracking on Windy.
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A quick example - the data is about 22 minutes old on this screenshot (14-minute update delay + 8 minutes after the latest update).
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Radar data freshness isn't explicitly shown anywhere on Windy, so anyone not familiar with the peculiarities of Romanian data can mistakenly use 20-25-minute-old data (15 minutes of delay + up to 10 minutes of waiting for the next update) as fresh ones.
In addition to that, the combined effects of high delays and slow updates result in substantial still periods when animating Romanian radar data, as can be seen on the video below about 0:05-0:09 time marks.
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Dear @cb-incus, this looks very promising, I will look into this. Thank You for bringing it to our attention!
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@cb-incus
Done. Thank You again for letting us know. -
Dear @Filip_K, thank you very much for the quick integration!
