404-weather

404-Weather is a dark-themed desktop weather radar and alerts GUI. It combines the RainViewer live radar/satellite viewer with live National Weather Service (USA) alerts, and quick access to Environment Canada (ECCC) alerts.

✨ Features

• 🌎 Interactive Map

  • Live RainViewer radar or satellite layers
  • Adjustable center latitude/longitude, zoom, opacity, color scheme, labels, snow overlay
  • Instant update button and "open in browser" option

• 🚨 Live Alerts (USA, NWS)

  • Pulls from api.weather.gov
  • Modes: point (lat/lon), state (2-letter), zone (county/UGC)
  • Auto-refresh timer (30s–15m)
  • Alerts tab with severity, urgency, certainty, expiry, area/office
  • Double-click any alert to open its official NWS page

• 🍁 Canada Alerts

  • Quick button opens Environment Canada (ECCC) warning page in your browser

• 🎨 Dark Hacker Theme

  • Consistent dark palette with blue highlights
  • GUI remembers your last settings (settings.json)

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🛠 Install & Run

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• PySide6 with QtWebEngine
• requests

Setup

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip wheel
pip install PySide6 PySide6-Addons PySide6-Essentials requests

Run
python map.py

<img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Screenshot_2025-08-21_23_15_32" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0decd907-087d-4e7f-8ba6-a509e280c439" />

<img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Screenshot_2025-08-22_17_01_07" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/765a6261-1991-44d2-a049-3f9e5f923959" />

⚙️ Settings

Saved in settings.json in the working directory.

Stores map center, zoom, layer, color scheme, opacity, toggles, and alert preferences.

📚 References

RainViewer maps: rainviewer.com/map