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@FahrenheitResearch FahrenheitResearch released this 20 Aug 18:11
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GenericRadar v0.4.0

  • Radar files are routed by their contents rather than by their extension.
    Newly readable: legacy NEXRAD Message 1, so pre-2008 Level II archives
    decode; ODIM_H5 polar volumes from European radars; DORADE sweepfiles and
    mobile deployment zips (DOW, COW, RaXPol, NOXP); GR2Analyst-style .msg31
    exports; and CfRadial 1.x.
  • Six new themes — Storm night, Broadcast desk, Paper, Amber ops, Modern flat
    and High visibility — for eight in total. The two original benches are
    unchanged. High visibility holds 7:1 text contrast (WCAG AAA) and uses
    colour-universal accents.
  • Interface scale, density (comfortable, compact or dense), accent colour, and
    bevelled or flat chrome are now chosen separately from the theme.
  • Four new settings pages: Units & time (distance, altitude, UTC or local time,
    12- or 24-hour clock), Data & network, Readout & annotation, and
    Cross-section.
  • Settings gained search across every page, a mark on each value that differs
    from the shipped default, per-setting and per-page reset, import and export,
    and named profiles you can save and switch between.
  • Gate filters for the 2D panes: hide reflectivity below a threshold, hide
    velocity where its companion sweep has no echo, censor by correlation
    coefficient, hide range-folded gates, and cut off the near range — with
    presets. A pane that is hiding gates says so and says what is hidden;
    clicking that band shows everything again.

The Windows executable is the build that was run and checked on Windows. It is
unsigned, so SmartScreen warns on first run. The other platform archives are
compiled from the same source at this tag and are not flight-tested.

Data: NOAA/NWS NEXRAD Level II; api.weather.gov; USGS The National Map;
© OpenStreetMap contributors.