New HRRR products on weather.utah.edu

I've added some new HRRR products on weather.utah.edu.  In fact, I've completely upgraded our HRRR postprocessing suite over the past couple of weeks, migrating to python and building in a lot of capabilities that should improve reliability and produce far superior graphics than those that have been around now for 20 years.  In particular, the code uses Amazon Web Services as the primary access point for the data, with a fall back to the National Weather Service if there's a hiccup.  It will auto backfill if products are not produced (assuming our servers are up).  It's also parallelized and, for the three product types that are currently being produced, and download and process an 18-hour HRRR forecast in three and a half minutes.  The color schemes are also supposed to be more color-blind friendly.  

The three products that are available are composite reflectivity and IR, hourly precipitation, and total precipitation.  

On weather.utah.edu, you can loop through these.  Here's a direct link for the western US radar and satellite loop: https://weather.utah.edu/index.php?&t=hrrr&d=CR&r=WE.

There are also plots available for the Northwest, Southwest, Intermountain, Northern Utah, and Wasatch Front regions.  The total precipitation product includes annotated values for several locations including the gridpoint nearest to the Salt Lake City Airport, Cottonwood Heights, Alta-Collins, Canyons Daybreak, Snowbasin Middle Bowl, Ben Lomond Peak SNOTEL, Deer Valley Ontario, Sundance, Powder Mountain, Trial Lake SNOTEL, Tony Grove SNOTEL, and Bunnels Ridge observing sites.  There's nothing to see today (no precip), but this should be useful in the future.  

There's still a lot broken on weather.utah.edu, including time heights.  Many of the graphics are also dated. I will be doing updates from time to time as time permits.  Please be patient.  I only have a little time here and there to work on these things.  Alert me if you see bugs.