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- From: daver@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (David Ray)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: SATELLITE PHOTO
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:29:07 GMT
- Organization: /etc/organization
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- Message-ID: <1er7tjINN778@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <16NOV92.12028663.0072@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <1992Nov18.203418.13263@ke4zv.uucp>
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- >In article <16NOV92.12028663.0072@VM1.MCGILL.CA> IEGS@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA (IEGS000) writes:
- >>COULD SOMEONE HELP ME: SUPPOSE A HURRICANE JUST BLEW IN! WHERE CAN I
- >>FIND A SATELLITE PHOTOS OF IT'S PROGRESS?
-
- If you have internet access during the storm, you can FTP weather satellite
- photos of N. America which are updated every hour. The images are in GIF
- format so you need appropriate viewing software (shareware GIF viewers
- are available for PC's and Macs.)
-
- Do this: by typing this:
-
- FTP to the site: ftp 128.174.5.98
- login as: anonymous
- change directories: cd WX
- set binary transfer mode: binary
- list available GOES images: ls CV*
- get the desired file: get CVmmddhh.GIF
- end ftp session: bye
-
- The image files are in the form CVmmddhh.GIF where mmddhh is the month, day
- of month, andhour in Greenwich standard time. (For example, CV112316.GIF)
- These files are about 90k and are kept for a day or two. There are also
- higher-resolution versions of the same files, about 350k, which they only
- keep the latest version of due to hard disk limitations -- this file is
- named CVIS.GIF.
-
- Finally, a non-smart-ass answer.
-
- Dave
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