At the same time, it strives to be simpler and easier to use
than existing meteorological software packages such as GEMPAK
and IDV.
+
+ Currently AWeather only displays data provided by the United
+ States National Weather Service.
</p>
<hr />
<li>Level-II archives</li>
<li>Conus NEXRAD imagery</li>
<li>Volume display of dBZ iso surfaces</li>
+ <li>Storm based and county based<br/>
+ warning/watch/advisory displays</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Virtual Globe base rendering<ul>
<li>Including terrain, satellite, and map imagery</li>
<% } %>
<% void print_news(void) { %>
- <p class="quote">Now that it's spring again, progress on AWeather is continuing.</p>
+ <!-- It's not really spring anymore :/ -->
+ <!-- <p class="quote">Now that it's spring again, progress on AWeather is continuing.</p> -->
<dl class="news">
+ <dt>2012-01-10</dt>
+ <dd>
+ AWeather 0.6.3 released: <ul>
+ <li>Added support for Mac OS X</li>
+ <li>Added an much improved <a href="manual">User Guide</a>,
+ written by Jason Holmes</li>
+ <li>Miscellaneous bug fixes</li>
+ </ul>
+ <span style="font-size: smaller; font-style: italic;">
+ (p.s. AWeather 0.6.2 doesn't exist, you never
+ heard of it, and neither have I)</small>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>2011-11-25</dt>
+ <dd>
+ AWeather 0.6.1 released: <ul>
+ <li>Added a Radar menu to quickly jump to a NEXRAD/WSR-88D site</li>
+ <li>Fixed a bunch of 64-bit bugs</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>2011-11-03</dt>
+ <dd>
+ AWeather 0.6 released: <ul>
+ <li>Added "Alerts" plugin using the
+ <a href="http://alerts.weather.gov/">NWS CAP</a> feed</li>
+ <li>Updated GTK+ libraries for Windows</li>
+ <li>Behind the scenes, mouse support in Grits
+ has been much improved</li>
+ </ul>
+ This release was a little bit faster than previous releases.
+ Hopefully additional improvements to the alerts plugin
+ can be made incrementally during the 0.x.x releases.
+ </dd>
+
<dt>2011-09-12</dt>
<dd>
AWeather 0.5.2 released: <ul>
<li>Added new desktop icons</li>
<li>Miscellaneous bug fixes</li>
</ul>
+ Improved organization of the <a href="<%= WIKI_INDEX %>">Wiki</a>
</dd>
<dt>2011-08-25</dt>
and <a href="<%= UBUNTU_HOME %>">Ubuntu</a> packages</li>
</ul>
</dd>
+ </dl>
+ <p class="note">See also: <a href="oldnews">Older news</a>,
+ <a href="<%= GW_AWEATHER %>">gitweb</a></p>
+<% } %>
+<% void print_oldnews(void) { %>
+ < <a href="news">News</a>
+ <dl class="news">
<dt>2011-06-19</dt>
<dd>
AWeather 0.5 released: <ul>
progress is being made on libgis, which is now able to display
a virtual globe using data from NASA servers.</dd>
</dl>
- <p class="note">See also: AWeather's <a href="<%= GW_AWEATHER %>">gitweb</a></p>
+<% } %>
+
+<% void print_manual(void) { %>
+ <div class="asciidoc">
+ <% print_file("manual.inc"); %>
+ </div>
<% } %>
<% void print_screenshots(void) { %>
<% print_screen("iso"); %>
Close up showing a 52.5 dBZ isosurface
</li>
+ <li>
+ <% print_screen("alert"); %>
+ Current severe weather alerts for the CONUS
+ </li>
</ul>
<% } %>
<dt>Source code</dt>
<dd>
<a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz">aweather-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz</a>,
- <a href="../grits/grits-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz">grits-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz</a>,
+ <a href="../grits/grits-<%= VERSION_GRITS %>.tar.gz">grits-<%= VERSION_GRITS %>.tar.gz</a>,
<a href="files/rsl-1.40.tar.gz">rsl-1.40.tar.gz</a>
</dd>
<dd><span class="code">apt-get install aweather</span> from Debian sid</dd>
<dt>Ubuntu</dt>
- <dd><span class="code">apt-get install aweather</span> from Ubuntu oneiric</dd>
+ <dd><span class="code">apt-get install aweather</span> from Ubuntu Oneiric,
+ or the <a href="<%= UBUNTU_PPA %>">AWeather PPA</a></dd>
+ <!--
+ (Arch packages still have bugs)
+ <dt>Arch</dt>
+ <dd>Available from the AUR</dd>
+ -->
+ <!--
+ <dt>Slackware</dt>
+ <dd>Available in Slacky 13.37</dd>
+ -->
+ <!--
+ <dt>Mandriva</dt>
+ <dd>Available from contrib/cooker?</dd>
+ -->
</dl></li>
<li class="windows"><dl class="inline">
<dt>Windows</dt>
- <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe</a>
+ <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN %>-gtk.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN %>-gtk.exe</a>
(Use this unless you know what you're doing)</dd>
<dt>Without GTK</dt>
- <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe</a></dd>
+ <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN %>.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN %>.exe</a></dd>
</dl></li>
<li class="macos" style="padding-top: .8em; padding-bottom: .8em"><dl class="inline">
<dt>Mac OS X</dt>
- <dd>Coming soon (Mac OS developer? <a href="/code/issues/1">Help out</a>)</dd>
+ <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_MAC %>.dmg">aweather-<%= VERSION_MAC %>.dmg</a></dd>
</dl></li>
</ul>
<p class="note">Pre-releases, betas, and other hazardous software</p>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<p>Check out the <a href="files">files</a> directory for any potential updates</p>
- <p>Pre-releases are labeled with a -p0 and are mainly built for testing the Windows packages</p>
+ <p>Pre-releases are labeled with a -p0 and are mainly built for testing the Windows and Mac packages</p>
</div>
<h2>Development code</h2>
<li>Data caching</li>
<li>Automatic updating</li>
</ul></li>
+ <li>Warning/Watch/Advisory display</li>
<li>Surface and map overlays</li>
<li>Terrain rendering</li>
</ul>
<div style="float: left; margin-left: 20px;">
- <% print_screen("meso"); %>
+ <% print_screen("stormbased"); %>
+ <div style="text-align: center; margin-right: 25px;">
+ AWeather showing storm based warnings<br />
+ on top of Level-II radar imagery
+ </div>
</div>
<a href="download" class="download" style="float: right;">
<span>Download</span>
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