rradar

Animate NOAA NWSRadar Images by Station Id

Description

NOAA NWS has an array of National Doppler Radar Sites. Tools are provided to to help you locate stations and create an animated composite image of recent radar images.

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• animate_conus_mosaic: Create an animated weather radar mosaic for the the conterminus U.S.
• animate_radar: Create an animated weather image from a NOAA station
• latest_radar: Read latest NWS regional or ConUS radar mosaics as a stars object
• latest_ridge: Read latest NWS ridge as a stars object
• scale_fill_rradar: Continuous fill scale for use with NWS raster radar data
• stations: NOAA U.S. Radar Stations

Installation

install.packages("rradar", repos = "https://cinc.rud.is")
# or
remotes::install_git("https://git.rud.is/hrbrmstr/rradar.git")
# or
remotes::install_git("https://git.sr.ht/~hrbrmstr/rradar")
# or
remotes::install_gitlab("hrbrmstr/rradar")
# or
remotes::install_bitbucket("hrbrmstr/rradar")
# or
remotes::install_github("hrbrmstr/rradar")

NOTE: To use the ‘remotes’ install options you will need to have the {remotes} package installed.

Usage

library(rradar)

# current version
packageVersion("rradar")
## [1] '0.4.0'

Stations

library(tidyverse)

filter(stations, state == "Maine")
## # A tibble: 2 x 4
##   state city     dir   station
##   <chr> <chr>    <chr> <chr>  
## 1 Maine Caribou  N0R   CBW    
## 2 Maine Portland N0R   GYX

filter(stations, state == "California")
## # A tibble: 11 x 4
##    state      city             dir   station
##    <chr>      <chr>            <chr> <chr>  
##  1 California Beale AFB        N0R   BBX    
##  2 California Edwards AFB      N0R   EYX    
##  3 California Eureka           N0R   BHX    
##  4 California Hanford          N0R   HNX    
##  5 California Los Angeles      N0R   VTX    
##  6 California Sacramento       N0R   DAX    
##  7 California San Diego        N0R   NKX    
##  8 California San Francisco    N0R   MUX    
##  9 California San Joaquin Vly. N0R   HNX    
## 10 California Santa Ana Mtns   N0R   SOX    
## 11 California Vandenberg AFB   N0R   VBX

animate_radar("GYX")

animate_radar("VBX")

animate_conus_mosaic("small")

library(sf)
library(stars)
library(rradar)
library(viridis)
library(rnaturalearth)
library(hrbrthemes)
library(tidyverse)

wrld <- ne_countries(scale = "medium", country = c("united states of america", "canada"), 
                     continent = "north america", returnclass = "sf")
us <- ne_states("united states of america", returnclass = "sf")

ne_radar <- latest_radar("northeast")

wrld <- st_crop(wrld, st_bbox(ne_radar))
us <- st_crop(us, st_bbox(ne_radar))

ggplot() +
  geom_sf(data = wrld, size = 0.125, fill = '#fefefe') +
  geom_sf(data = us, size = 0.125, fill = '#fefefe') +
  geom_stars(data = ne_radar) +
  coord_sf(datum = NA) +
  scale_fill_rradar() +
  labs(
    x = NULL, y = NULL,
    title = "NWS Radar Mosaic — Northeast Sector",
    subtitle = "1758 UTC 2019-12-15"
  ) +
  theme_ipsum_es(grid="") +
  theme(legend.key.height = unit(5, "lines"))

rradar Metrics

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.