Interactive Weather Map via HTML widget

I am attempting to add a live weather map to our Summary Dashboard. What I am trying and the only thing I have found thus far is to add custom HTML widget and add the link to the map (radar.weather.gov). The issue is, I am not HTML coder and I am not sure how to get this to work. Any guidance on this would be appreciated.

This is what I have in the widget thus far:

But this is all I see on the monitor page. ( I have had the server put on the full internet access...so I know its not a firewall block)

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bobmarley

Try this. Go to https://radar.weather.gov/ and then zoom into the area you are trying to focus on. then grab the really long URL from the browser. As @cnorborg suggested place it in an Iframe as shown below.

Replace the URL in red the line below with the really long URL of the map zoomed into your area. You can adjust the size by changing the width and height.

So far mine worked, time will tell if the long URL changes over time. The radar loop runs if you hit the play button.

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cnorborg

So, in order to use the "IMG" tag, I believe you have to reference an image in the url. I'd also question the "SCR", shouldn't it be "SRC"?

By reference an image, it should reference something like "">radar.weather.gov/map.png" or something like that, I doubt this is a valid URL. The problem is, the page you're referencing isn't a valid image? I don't even think there is one image on the page...

You might instead look at the "IFRAME" tag, That allows you to open a live webpage in a frame in your page. Not always the best results, but unless you can narrow your link down to a single static image, I don't think what you're trying to do will work...

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp

rotto923

This is what I have setup works.

bobmarley

Replace the URL in red the line below with the really long URL of the map zoomed into your area. You can adjust the size by changing the width and height.

So far mine worked, time will tell if the long URL changes over time. The radar loop runs if you hit the play button.

gadbekr

Awesome. That worked like a charm. Thanks. Now to just figure out how to add our sites so the map is even more useful.