Automated extraction of NOAA weather satellite images

[Scott7477]

NOAA updates its weather satellite images on the GOES website every 30 minutes, with images in infrared, visible light, and water vapor wavelengths; for both the eastern and western halves of the US. The script below grabs those images and saves them to a local file with a timestamp. Could prove useful for doing your own weather forecasting or whatever....

    use strict;
    use LWP::Simple;
    use Time::Tiny;

    my $image;
    my $url;
    my %images = (
    "eastconusir" => "http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/ECIR.JPG",
    "eastconusvis" => "http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/ECVS.JPG",
    "eastconuswv" => "http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/ECWV.JPG",
    "westconusir" => "http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/WCIR.JPG",
    "westconusvis" => "http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/WCVS.JPG",
    "westconusvwv" => "http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/WCWV.JPG",
    );

    my $current_time = Time::Tiny->now;
    my $timestring = $current_time->hour.$current_time->minute.$curren
+t_time->second;
    print $timestring."\n";

    foreach my $key (keys %images) {
    print $key."\n";
    print $images{$key}."\n";
    my $status = getstore($images{$key},$key.$timestring.".jpg");
    print $status."\n" ;
    };