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Weatherscan Local XL is a simulated recreation of "Weatherscan Local" by The Weather Channel in HTML/CSS/JS, by mist weather media

Best used with mainland United States locations

Best used with Google Chrome on Windows

Online demo: local.weatherscan.net

© Mist Weather Media 2025.

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Special thanks to these talented minds who made this project possible!

Joe Molinelli (TheGoldDiamond9) - Lead Developer
COLSTER - Lead Designer / Developer (CSS)
PicelBoi - Developer (Radar)
JensonWx - Developer (HTML)
SSPWXR - Developer (Express Conversion)
zachNet - Audio Engineer

and the rest of the Mist Creative Team for their support!

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Need support beyond the scope of this README? Have any questions? Feel free to join our Discord for support!

mist weather media on Discord

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Are you a developer? Pull requests are welcome! If you find a bug and fix it yourself, submit one with the fixed code and it may be merged into the main branch!

Initial Setup

1. Install node.js LTS.
2. Acquire weather.com and mapbox.com API keys. These are required for weather data and radar frames respectively.
3. Go to /webroot/js and open config.js.
4. Line 1 is where your weather.com API key goes. Replace "YOUR_API_KEY" with your weather.com API key.
5. Line 2 is where your mapbox.com API key goes. Replace "YOUR_API_KEY" with your mapbox.com API key.
6. Save your changes to config.js and close out of it.
7. In terminal / command prompt within the webroot directory, run npm install. This will install all dependencies required to run.
8. In terminal / command prompt within the webroot directory, run npm start. This will start a local web server, which is required to run the sim.

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Enjoy the nostalgia! You're all set.

Many thanks for using our simulator! We hope you like it.