What's Your Favorite Weather Radar Software???

[Farmtalk]

As the subject implies, what is your favorite weather software??

My favorite weather program is Storm Predator. I know it's not the best program out there, even I will say that GR3 has a lot more features and a lot more user friendliness. However, the reason I like Storm Predator is I remember when I was a kid, like 12 or 13, and I had always wanted to be a meteorologist since I was 4 and I still do. My mom told me I should look and see how much radars were and start saving my money for it. I had no internet at the time so the only way I could do this is during school when I finished all of my work.

Everyday I would look online at different weather products, and I remember the day I found Storm Predator online. I was so amazed! For only $50 I could have my very own radar! I was really excited!! However, mom then told me the depressing news that I had to have Internet to run the program, and so my endeavors into radars stopped.

Flash forward to two years ago. On my 16th birthday my mom got me a laptop for schoolwork and it had internet access. For the next year I told mom how exciting it would be for me to have a radar. I joined this forum a few months after I got the laptop, and everyone talked about GRLevelx. So a year later on my birthday, I had saved enough money to buy GRLevel3. I bought it over Storm Predator just because people said it had so many features and was an overall great product, and it is a great product, I use it almost everyday. But I still wanted that first radar I saw. So on Easter break from school I saved enough money to get it, and like I said, though it isn't the best program, the sentimental value of it just made me have to want it.

[blizzardof78]

GRLevelX I have GR3.

[Tusker2Zero]

For me it's GRLevel3 version 2 with the following separate add-ons:

PFQuery - A program that lets you display road names on the display by clicking on the road. It will also display certain weather info in text form as well. For example, if you click on lets say a 50dbz area of a thunderstorm it will put 50dbz as text on the screen.

Manual Storm Tracks - This add-on does just as the name implies. Manually makes storm tracks, and provides ETA estimates on the GRL3 screen.

SCIT processor - Displays and organizes storm cell info, and can provide audible alerts based on your warning preferences. For example, you can set it up to sound an audible alarm for any TVS signatures detected on your screen.

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One piece of software that I've been using for years now, that isn't related to GRLevel3 in any way, is a program called WxWarning:
http://www.wxspots.com/wxwarn.htm



This program sits quietly minimized to your system tray. It will sound an alarm (and pop-up if you wish) for a variety of conditions within the areas that you select. I have mine set up to alert me of any watches or warnings that occur within the state of Tennessee. Because I have this program is running on the system tray 24/7, it's usually the very first indication that I get that bad weather is moving into my area.

The program comes with two other real useful features.

1.) A user selectable pop-up tropical weather/mesoscale discussion window. Never miss another mesoscale discussion again with this handy feature! When a discussion is released, a pop-up window appears and an audible alarm will sound. Click on the link in the pop-up window and you will be taken to the NWS site where you can read the full text of the discussion.

2.) Graphical information. As seen in the picture above, you can display upto 12 windows of graphical information (jpegs, gifs, etc...) in one convenient place. Click on one of the thumbnails in the program, and you can see the image in full screen view. A very nice feature.

WxWarning is a perfect companion piece of software to any weather package you may be running.

[Farmtalk]

Wow that looks great, and I've never seen it before! Unfortunately, I cannot run GR3 V2 on my laptop, but I have GR3 V 1.91 and Storm Predator V 3.6 on there

[ocala]

Gr2 and Nexrad3. I always liked GR2's 3D capability.

[DaculaWeather]

I'm using GRL3 v1 and 2. All of my loops right now are with v1 since my weather computer won't display a radar with v2.

I also like RadarScope for a mobile phone.

[Farmtalk]

Gr2 and Nexrad3. I always liked GR2's 3D capability.

Wow, that looks great! Is that color table smoothed?? I have been looking for a non-smoothed color table (And creating some as well), and that one looks really good!!

And I didnt know GR2 had 3d!

[ocala]

Gr2 and Nexrad3. I always liked GR2's 3D capability.

Wow, that looks great! Is that color table smoothed?? I have been looking for a non-smoothed color table (And creating some as well), and that one looks really good!!

And I didnt know GR2 had 3d!

The color table is myfoxesp2. I'm pretty sure I got it from GRstuff a while back. The above image is smoothed only because it's 3D but with GR2 the data is HI-RES so you really don't need smoothing.