Radar and Nowcast

About Radar and Nowcast Android App

It is an application that displays images of radar Nowcast Meteorological Agency Web site.

1) precipitation
We show the intensity distribution of precipitation by weather radar every five minutes, the estimation of the distribution of precipitation intensity for up to 60 minutes away by Nowcast and precipitation.

2) thunder
Displays the status and distribution of the rain cloud lightning every 10 minutes.
 4: Heavy Thunderstorm
 3: Somewhat violent thunder
 2: There is thunder
 1: Possible thunder

3) tornado
Show the possibility violent gust of wind, such as tornadoes occur every 10 minutes.
 2: The probability that such violent gust tornado may occur 5-10%
 1: The probability that an intense flurry of tornadoes may occur, such as 1-5%

[Features]

- View the image of tornado occurrence Nowcast accuracy Nowcast / thunder Nowcast / precipitation distribution and intensity of precipitation in each country or region.
- You can zoom the image with one finger (one finger zoom).
- You can scale the long run the tap until the Vibe image, as it is when you slide on and slide down.
- For each country or each region, the last displayed position of the image, and stores the magnification.
- You can change the time of the seek bar button or display image.
- The cache is loaded image once, I will show at a high speed.
- If there is a SD card, I want to create the SD card to cache.

[Application Permissions]
- Full Internet access (android.permission.INTERNET)
  - I will use when downloading the observed data (images) from the Japan Meteorological Agency Web site.
- Modify / delete USB storage contents of, modify / delete SD card contents of (android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE)
  - When I use to cache external storage media such as SD card image.
- Vibration control and (android.permission.VIBRATE)
  - 1 finger zoom, I use when notifying the start with long tap zoom.

[Others]
- The data is obtained from the Japan Meteorological Agency website.
- http://www.jma.go.jp/jp/radnowc/
- It may be due to the configuration of the Japan Meteorological Agency website will be modified and can not be updated.