How easy is this software to use? Can you upload multiple files? I'm mainly interested in the tropical weather but would consider adding radar imagery as well. Thanks.
It's fairly easy, but as with other feature rich software there is going to be a learning curve. But, it's not that bad.
WeatherStudio is great for tropical weather and looking at the weather and radar as a whole on a nationwide or regional basis. To be honest though, I still use GRLevel3 for looking at local radar data. One of the big reasons I got this program (other than for its cool tropical weather features) was for its forecast modeling. It includes a wide array of model selections for the RAP, NAM, GFS, and NDFD models. All of this for one low price WITHOUT any annual data fees.
Is it perfect? No. there are still bugs to be worked out of the program, and they're working on it. The program is still a young one and as with anything else it takes time to work these things out. Also, if your using an older machine, or something without a graphics card in it, your going to find that this program is going to run rather slow on it. I have a three year old Gateway laptop running Windows Vista, and it runs a bit slow, but is still quite usable.
For me (and what little money I have to spend), WeatherStudio is the perfect companion to GRLevel3. This program is definitely worth taking a look at, and keeping an eye on in the future, as the kinks are worked out of it and new features (that are in the works) are added.
While keeping all of the caveats mentioned above in mind, I do recommend this program as it has plenty of useable and working features that most of us weather weenies can use right now, and even more cool and useful features to be added on the horizon. Also, the price is spot on, in my opinion. Anyway, for what it's worth, that's my two cents.
PS. WeatherStudio does have an FTP and auto capturing features, but I have not played with them. So, I'm the wrong person to answer your question about uploading to a website. I primarily just manually take screenshots and post them to Facebook and a couple of forum sites.