{"id":1788241,"date":"2020-01-24T10:28:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788241"},"modified":"2020-01-24T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:28:50","slug":"ten-year-timelapse-of-u-s-weather-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/ten-year-timelapse-of-u-s-weather-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten-Year Timelapse of U.S. Weather Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"10 Years of Weather Radar - Breathtaking 2010-2020 Time-Lapse\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VCdb9_VhIvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VCdb9_VhIvU\">This timelapse video<\/a> showing 10 years of weather radar over the course of two hours is built from <a href=\"https:\/\/mesonet.agron.iastate.edu\/current\/mcview.phtml\">NEXRAD mosaic data<\/a> at the Iowa Environmental Mesonet site. To be honest they could have gone even further back: the archived data for the U.S. goes back as far as 1995. But then you\u2019d have a <em>five<\/em>-hour video, and who\u2019d watch that? [<a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/01\/10-year-time-lapse-of-us-weather-radar\">Kottke<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This timelapse video showing 10 years of weather radar over the course of two hours is built from NEXRAD mosaic data at the Iowa Environmental Mesonet site. To be honest they could have gone even&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/ten-year-timelapse-of-u-s-weather-radar\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[158,1414],"class_list":["post-1788241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-usa","tag-weather-radar","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":530,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/nws-national-mosaic\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788241,"position":0},"title":"NWS National Mosaic","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 January 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The National Weather Service's National Mosaic provides an uninterrupted look at the Doppler weather radar for the 48 contiguous U.S. states. 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