I just downloaded the new beta of Jim Corenman's free wx viewer
"viewfax". It has a couple of new features that I think are very
cool. First, it can display the precipitation rate. The rain rate
provides very useful and easy to understand insight into the timing,
geometry and, to some extent, vigor of fronts and CZs. You can now
get the rain rate in NGP or GFS girbs from saildocs by adding the RAIN
parameter to your query. Awesome! Also, for folks with some kind of
internet connection (eg. wifi or Iridium) there is a new get data
feature that provides direct download of many useful faxes, sat
pictures, gribs and text products. It looks clean and fast so it
might save on connect time. Just the list of products is useful.
It's wonderful with my clearwire (cellular) modem. Anyway,
http://www.siriuscyber.net/wxfax/ or www.sailmail.com and follow the
download links if you're interested.

-- Tom.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/graphical/sectors/fwd.php#tabs


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(remove the X to email)

Now just why the HELL do I have to press 1 for English?
John Wayne

On Apr 3, 4:07 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/graphical/sectors/fwd.php#tabs

Cool. Too, NOAA has an ftp server (ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov) with
text, fax and even grib products. An ftp script is a good way to go
about getting any of those except for the gribs for the person who
wants to avoid web overhead but has some kind of connectivity. For
the gribs a chopper that just gives you the bits you want is very nice
for the bandwidth impaired. I use saildocs.com which is free but
requires an email account. The new viewfax is able to bypass the email
bit for that and organizes the products nicely. Anyway, I was
impressed.

-- Tom.

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:58:55 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

The new viewfax is able to bypass the email
bit for that and organizes the products nicely. Anyway, I was
impressed.

I installed the new Viewfax on my desktop machine for testing. It is
able to download weather reports from its internal menu but does not
seem to have integrated itself with Airmail, i.e., does not show up on
the Airmail "pulldown" menus.

On Apr 4, 12:22 am, Wayne.B wrote:
...[it] does not show up on
the Airmail "pulldown" menus.

I think that if you get a wx file (eg ask for a gib from saildocs or
go the your fax folder) into airmail when you click on the attachment
you will get the new viewer. There may be some way to get it to show
up as a separate module but I haven't explored that yet. I just put a
shortcut to it on my windows desktop for testing. My only real
complaint so far is that it limits gribs to 72 hours. The global
models run out 384 hours (ok they are just plain silly at that
point). Still, It would be nice to get a longer look.

-- Tom.

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:16:08 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

I think that if you get a wx file (eg ask for a gib from saildocs or
go the your fax folder) into airmail when you click on the attachment
you will get the new viewer. There may be some way to get it to show
up as a separate module but I haven't explored that yet. I just put a
shortcut to it on my windows desktop for testing. My only real
complaint so far is that it limits gribs to 72 hours.

We must be subscribind to the gribs differently, mine are going out
120 hours same as always, and they appear to be using the new viewer.

This is my subscription text:

Subscribe
grib:20N,30N,086W,076W|1,1|0,12,24,36,48,72,96,120 |WIND,PRMSL

On Apr 4, 12:53 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
We must be subscribind to the gribs differently, mine are going out
120 hours same as always, and they appear to be using the new viewer.

This is my subscription text:

Subscribe
grib:20N,30N,086W,076W|1,1|0,12,24,36,48,72,96,120 |WIND,PRMSL

Sure, and you can do 6 hour intervals out to 384 for GFS or NOGAPS. I
have saildocs do that for me when I have internet mail. However, the
new viewfax file - get data - grib just has check boxes for 0,24,48
and 72. Also if you add the RAIN parameter to your saildocs request
it will max out the sailmail attachment restriction at about 72 hours,
too. Anyway, it is a pretty minor nit.

For example:
gfs:20N,50N,170W,110W|1,1|
00,06,12,18,24,30,36,48,72,96,120,144,168,192,216, 240,264,288,312,336,348,384|
PRESS,WIND,RAIN
produces about 150k of file which sailmail will reject but which is
smaller than the sat pics that viewfax will go grab for you.

-- Tom.

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:05:27 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

Sure, and you can do 6 hour intervals out to 384 for GFS or NOGAPS. I
have saildocs do that for me when I have internet mail. However, the
new viewfax file - get data - grib just has check boxes for 0,24,48
and 72.

I must be doing something wrong. I can't find an entry for grib after
doing: file - get data -

On Apr 4, 2:27 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
I must be doing something wrong. I can't find an entry for grib after
doing: file - get data -

Try get data, then on the left side select saildocs-grib files from
the folder tree. That should give you a map of the world and if you
have a gps should put a red diamond on your position. Select an area
like by dragging the mouse cursor. There are two request buttons.
Use the one next to the model drop down box. Check your parameters
and hit send. Good luck!

-- Tom.

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:14:21 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

Try get data, then on the left side select saildocs-grib files from
the folder tree. That should give you a map of the world and if you
have a gps should put a red diamond on your position. Select an area
like by dragging the mouse cursor. There are two request buttons.
Use the one next to the model drop down box. Check your parameters
and hit send. Good luck!

Got it !

That is cool, thanks.