jpolton/synopticcharts

download and display Met Office sea level pressure synoptic charts

SynopticCharts

Download Met Office sea level pressure synoptic charts twice a day and present in a table.

Click here for table

The table has the time for which the forecast is made increaing to the right and the newest forecast being the top row.

There is a two step process:

1. fetch the charts, using the Met Office datapoint API, twice a day. This is done with a GitAction. The charts are stored in docs/charts/
2. Render the charts in a table using javascript: docs/index.html

Run jobs locally

Instead of running GitActions to obtain the charts, a cronjob could be run locally. A cronjob script might look like:

#!/bin/bash
# run wget comment to save surface pressure chart images
# crontab -e
# 30 19 * * * /Users/jelt/GitHub/SynopticCharts/get_MO_charts.sh
# 30 7 * * * /Users/jelt/GitHub/SynopticCharts/get_MO_charts.sh

#source /usr/local/bin/activate /Users/jelt/opt/anaconda3/envs/synoptic_env 
/Users/jelt/opt/anaconda3/bin/conda activate /Users/jelt/opt/anaconda3/envs/synoptic_env
cd /Users/jelt/GitHub/SynopticCharts/
python main.py
conda deactivate

synopticcharts's Issues

tidy javascript time stamping

timestamping in html file is a bit of a mess.
Need to keep track of:

1. whether to start first plot at today's noon or midnight. This is the ANALYSIS time
2. keep track of the number of 12-hourly forecasts since ANALYSIS - this is the columns number
3. keep track of the forecast period. For each cell this increases by 12hr going down the column.

Code could be tidied to better reflect these important variables.