saving archived weather data images

[Bill Hark]

I am currently trying to obtain some archived info for Storms of 2007 and have found some nice archival images that can be looped but I am an unable to right click and "save as" even when stopped on one image.

SPC mesoscale data archives
http://w1.spc.woc.noaa.gov/exper/ma_archive/

Event archives (try clicking on the satellite loop link)
http://w1.spc.woc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/events/070301/index.html

Any ideas? I suppose there is something simple that I am missing.

Bill Hark

[Chad Cowan]

Bill-

It won't let you save the images because they are displayed through a Java applet. I had the same problem trying to get these data for the 2/28 chapter. You can work around this by using the "Print Screen" (PrtSc) button on your keyboard which takes a screen shot of everything displayed on your monitor and saves it to your clipboard. Open your photo edit program, start a new file, and hit Ctrl+V or paste and the image will be displayed. I hope this helps.

[Beau.Gjerdingen]

Images cannot be saved out of applets... but you can just edit the URL bar above to get the individual images. Per the instructions for the event archive....

For Example with the satellite images....
"To view individual images type ir#.gif above where # corresponds to the frame number you wish to view."

For the link you sent an example of one of the image locations would be...

http://w1.spc.woc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/events/070301/ir1.gif

Hope this helps!

[Bill Hark]

Thanks for the advice!!!

Bill Hark