NWS radar images should stop using Flash

To be more accessible, I don’t think it would be that difficult to replace their existing system with one that just uses layered animated gifs with transparency. Even if you had to store a different gif for the different speeds that the radar data can playback, it at least allows for a short period of static file caching and allows for the full website experience on a mobile device. Don’t want to pre-generate the gifs of the radar data? OK. Instead use javascript to generate client-side gifs.

NWS radar image from Portland, ME.