# Displaying Weather Radar in Perspective View

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-weather-radar-in-perspective-view/36094>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, perspective\
**Created:** [June 26, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-weather-radar-in-perspective-view/36094 "2020-06-26T15:51:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![MikeAllgood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MikeAllgood](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MikeAllgood)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-weather-radar-in-perspective-view/36094/1 "2020-06-26T15:51:22Z")

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I’m working to provide weather information in a Perspective View. I have figured out how to pull the current condition and forecast data from [weather.gov](http://weather.gov). One ask that I am working on is to display weather radar for the local area. I’m not finding any information on how to accomplish this here or on the larger inter-web (🙂). I’d like to be able to embed a radar map of the area in a view (a popup would be preferred). If that is not possible then I guess I could simply open a new browser tab and navigate to the NWS radar page for the area.

Has anyone done something like this?  
Any suggestion on embedding this in a popup or main view?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-weather-radar-in-perspective-view/36094/2 "2020-06-26T18:19:17Z")

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I’d recommend looking into using the Iframe component, but it’s very hit-or-miss with what sites allow for use in an Iframe.

I don’t know of any examples off-hand, but you could also look for third-party sites which generate images of weather maps for a given area. A timer script to update the displayed image is easy, so if you can find a way to get just the latest image of a weather map to display every five or ten seconds, this solution should be simple and not as bandwidth-intensive as actually displaying a realtime weather map.

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**Author:** ![Brian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Brian](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brian)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-weather-radar-in-perspective-view/36094/3 "2020-06-27T17:28:43Z")

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Here’s a link describing how to download the radar images from NOAA:  
[https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/ridge\_download](https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/ridge_download)

Also, on the page that displays the radar, you can click a link toward the top that says ‘Standard Version’. This takes you to a page that displays a single .PNG. It looks a little different than the standard radar, but it’s simpler to work with. You can use the url to the image file as your link. It’s a static link; the file will be updated on NOAAs end periodically. The link for my area looks like this: `https://radar.weather.gov/lite/N0R/UEX_0.png` and shows this:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/4/d44c7bde05946cad99554e43f9b7cd25deeaa736.png)

I don’t know how you work any of that into Perspective; I haven’t played with it yet. But hopefully it will help with the data source portion 🙂