Version 1.8.0 released September 15, 2010
Load and display overlays of single or multiple Level-III radars, radar mosaics, sat images, contours, gradients, time series, US Roads and county street maps, watches and warnings, map boundaries, topological relief images, animation option. Near-live updates. Mouseover on composite radar shows storm cell detail. Freeware from Oklahoma Climatological Society for educational and non-commercial use.
Application Details:
| Version: | 1.8.0 |
| License: | Free to use and share |
| URL: | http://climate.ok.gov/software... |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.3.19 |
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What works
Weather functions work properly. WeatherScope 1.7.4 tested with Linux Mint-9 and a variant, Peppermint One. Help file lists numerous improvements. Earlier versions performed well under OpenSuSE 11.2, Debian 5.0 "Lenny", Fedora-12, Mandriva 2010.0, Slackware 12.2, Mepis 8.0.10, Pardus 2009, Ubuntu 9.10_x64, and Kubuntu 8.04.1.
Developer reports 1.7.x series will be the last to support Win-2K. Tested with WINE on 32 and 64-bit dual-core systems.
What does not
See additional discussions below under the heading Known Bugs.
Workarounds
What was not tested
n/a
Hardware tested
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Additional Comments
Exceptional program, many resources. You'll want this in a storm. On older, underpowered machines, activating several features at once slows response. On modern computers, including netbooks, WeatherScope is very fast.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Mepis 11.0 | May 31 2011 | 1.3.19 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Jim Travis | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 03 2010 | 1.3.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Jim Travis | |
| Current | Linux Mint 9 "Isadora" | May 22 2010 | 1.2-rc1 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Jim Travis | |
| Show | Mandriva 2010.0 | Dec 08 2009 | 1.1.34 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Jim Travis | |
| Show | Pardus 2009 | Jul 29 2009 | 1.1.25 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Jim Travis |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
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