I pulled the coordinates used for the NWS charts directly from the old site. If they need updating then I’m good with that. Post links that are to closer locations and I can update those.

I was thinking of adding in more delay between each frame (just to make that 15 minutes play a bit slower) – will put together a couple of experiments and post them to see what’s the least objectionable.

The pop up goes as large as it can get and still display the image size at 100%, so in the case of the last-15 animation, it won’t fill your browser on most desktop sizes since the image is on the smaller side.

I can look into options on allowing scaling of the window.

Instead of scaling, Jerome had a good idea of just making 2 sizes available (standard and large). That’s done and up (you’ll now see 2 links below the webcam images). I also added a 1 second delay at the beginning of the loop so that it’s easy to spot the end/beginning of the looping.

The loop will always only be about that long (for 15 minutes). Here’s the math:

• Assuming we have all of the last 15 minutes (sometimes the camera will not upload an image due to lots of reasons – power being the most common), we get 15 total frames.
• Animated GIFs have 100 “ticks” per second.
• To slow things down a bit, we set the delay on each frame (how long the frame is displayed for) to 20 ticks (roughly 1/5 of a second).
• If we have 15 frames, that equals 3 total seconds (plus a 1 second delay on the end) – 4 total seconds length.

Dan is the man as far as the Crestline webcam goes (I don’t know much about that one – we’re just linking to it from the site since it can’t be embedded). This doesn’t help you, but I’m on a Mac as well and I haven’t had any issues with viewing/using the Crestline webcam. It always says “your browser is not supported”, but ignore that and everything seems to work fine.