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Old August 8th 06, 03:40 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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Keith Wassell wrote:
That it always takes the met office 20 min + to get the latest image
up. is this data available anywhere else ? (rain radar)


Seems to take just less than 20 minutes at the moment. I guess the delay
is due to the time it takes to process the images.

Jonathan
Canterbury, Kent


I always thought it was so that the Met can charge for the real-time radar
service. It certainly doesn't take 20 minutes of computer time to process
and combine a trivial set of radar returns!

- MJP