Protuhj / nhc-cones

Plots all 5 day forecast cones onto the NHC 7 day forecast imagery

NHC Cones

Author: Protuhj

Version: 0.9.4

Disclaimer:

I am in no way associated with the National Hurricane Center, and this project or its output is not intended for official use.

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Description:

Takes the current storm data from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and plots all the 5 day forecast cones onto the 7 day forecast graphics

Example output for the Atlantic forecast:

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Dependencies

Written against Python 3.6

From requirements.txt:

certifi==2020.6.20
chardet==3.0.4
idna==2.10
lxml==4.5.2
Pillow==7.2.0
pytz==2020.1
requests==2.24.0
urllib3==1.25.10

Running it

• Set up a Python virtual environment :

python3.6 -m venv env

• Activate the virtual environment:

source ./env/bin/activate

• Install requirements:

pip3.6 install -r requirements.txt

• Run it:

python3.6 main.py