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This is really fantastic. Thanks for creating and sharing this. Is there a way to animate the radar? The tutorial suggests there is, but I don't see any buttons that would allow animation.

That’s in the backlog for future updates. I’ll tweak the tutorial text ASAP to remove any refs to animation. My bad, and thanks for the feedback!

Hi Rob! Could you add in Canada to the map even without any Canada radar stations? I can't see the lakes or the provinces at all because of it being just the CONUS map overlayed.

Ok, I've added CA/MX provinces and the Great Lakes polygons to the map layers for our users in the borderlands. Thanks for the feedback!

This is amazing!! Is there a way to get a cursor readout of the range from the radar to a given point / elevation above the radar of a given radar pixel? I was looking for that in the options and didn't find it, but maybe I just missed it.

This looks nice! What libraries are you using? Or is it all custom code? (For the data parsers, it sounds like it's custom code.) Is it all in Javascript?

It's all in Typescript/Javascript. The main library is maplibre-gl for the map rendering, with fflate and and seek-bzip to handle the compressions. I used Svelte for the web framework, and after that, it's all locally-developed. I looked at pyodide for the Py ecosystem, but thought it'd too much.

Okay, cool! I've been working on C++ code for parsing the Level 2 radar files I want to compile to WASM. I was also curious since I released the single-site radar capability in autumnplot-gl last week. Though it looks like you're using a continuous color map, which I haven't implemented yet.

Looking great! I've bookmarked it for future use. Wondering if there's a time loop function? Maybe I missed it 😕

malpais.app can be used to look at realtime Level 2 or Level 3 data products, or you can use it to look at archived radar data. If you think a storm looks like something from May 3, 1999, you can punch in the date and look at the historical data.

In addition to the radar data, malpais.app includes displays of the current severe weather related watches and warnings from the NWS and the current aviation hazards: SIGMETS, G-AIRMETS, and AIRMETS, from the Aviation Weather Center.

To help orientate yourself, malpais.app includes US county borders, interstate highways, airport locations, airspace boundaries, VOR locations and runways. malpais has been tested on Chrome and Safari on both desktop and mobile browsers. (Honestly, desktop is better for now).