Time-lapse national weather radar 7 months

Time-lapse of national weather radar mosaic over half a year (noise lessens in 2nd half). Covers 7/23/2006 to 2/16/2007. Jumps when I lost power or internet. Source image from the National Weather Service at http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/RadarImg/latest_Small.gif

Frames were captured every 10 minutes, but in order to make it fit YouTube, I took every other frame. So encoded frames are at 20-minute intervals playing at 30 frames/second. I guess that puts it at 5 hours of real time per second of video. (Time flies when you're having fun.)

Sound credits:
"Ending the Drought (featuring Shagrugge)" by Gurdonark (http://ccmixter.org/media/files/gurdonark/4436) used under the cc-nc-sampling+ 1.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/)
"2 dias (synths)" by flanicx (http://ccmixter.org/media/files/flanicx/8151) used under the cc-by 2.5 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)

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• weather
• radar
• timelapse

[IIDragonslay3rII]

About the hurricane at 1:20 which hurricane was that? I don't recall that particular storm.

[egb13]

@IIDragonslay3rII That looks like it must have been Ernesto. Lookup "2006 Atlantic hurricane season" in Wikipedia.

[choctaw111]

I really enjoyed this and I have never before seen the weather patterns play out over such a long period of time. I must ask at what date you started this.

[egb13]

The animation is for dates 7/23/2006 to 2/16/2007. That's buried in a reply to an earlier instance to this question; I guess I should put it in the description.

[DoITakeANumber]

I am guessing this starts in July? I'm from Seattle Washington -- it usually rains during fall- spring. lol and we get high pressure during the summer. Hardly any clouds in the beginning of this film in Wa. Am I right?

[egb13]

Yes, it's barely legible after resizing and compression, but if you squint really hard I think you can see that the date at the beginning is 7/22/2006.

[nikolaigrabowski]

at 1:20 to 1:30 great example of a hurricane on radar.

at 2:57 to 3:00 great example of lake effect snow in the Great Lakes.

at 3:03 to 3:07 DANG.

at 5:00 to 5:08 great winter storm in midwest.

[melissatx75]

one of the coolest things I've seen. Texas definitely has a weird weather pattern.

[IIDragonslay3rII]

@egb13  Yeah that was ernesto alright. Thanks for the clariication.

[scombrid2]

Amazing how active the southern stream systems were in the December 2006 through February 2007 portion of the video. I remember Christmas 2006 and groundhog's day 2007 well in Central Florida.

[jonnygouda1]

AWESOME. I love long radar loops as opposed to the crap the weather dork puts up on the TV news.  Those do not give you any real appreciation for weather patterns.

Great job!

[packerfan10]

Look at all the rain So Cal didn't get :(

[DrCumulus]

Here is a random idea, put one up for each month, this way you can save space on your computer, or even once a week, I don't know, just a random idea :) Love the vid though

[oregonsbragia]

I would like to think that someday we will have a 100 year or 1000 year loop! that would be cool!