radar

View National Weather Service (NWS) Doppler radar from the command line!

Install and Use

From Github:

git clone https://github.com/rcpatrick/radar.git

From my website:

git clone git://git.raypatrick.xyz/radar.git

Then:

cd radar
sudo make install

Typing radar at any command prompt will print usage instructions.

A neat trick

Requires dmenu(1). If you run radar -l or radar --list, radar will print a list of all NEXRAD doppler radar sites that it can query. You can parse this list with dmenu(1) to get a fuzzy-search capability:

radar $(radar --list | dmenu)

When the dmenu bar comes up, start typing your city or your state's postal abbreviation and see what comes up!

Dependencies

• POXIX-compatible shell
• grep(1)
• mpv(1) (unless you change it - see below)

Customization

If you'd rather not use mpv(1), you can change the function called viewsite() to point to whichever program you like.