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Hanna Timelapse

All through Saturday I had a script fetch an image from the WJLA sky cam every 30 seconds to catch Tropical Storm Hanna’s progress as it passed over DC, then combined the image sequence into a movie with some loops for background music. Kennedy Center is at lower middle right. I do wish the office staff would turn that webcam back towards the National Mall, though; it’s not quite as recognizable as DC otherwise.

3 Comments

  1. This is one of the more interesting timelapses. Music fits wells too.

    Monday, September 8, 2008 at 10:56 am | Permalink
  2. Mark wrote:

    It’s awesome, what script do you use to pull the images down?

    Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 8:24 am | Permalink
  3. Paulo wrote:

    I like to say I used curl but in truth it’s a PHP thing I threw together which acts like curl, but gives me a web frontend on localhost for ease of use.

    Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 9:07 am | Permalink