Fascinating, Mike, I wonder also since depending on the financial
resources, often enough of the poster to wunderground.com, the
integrity may suffer, so, like you, I'd rather it be something
important like an airport location where weather conditions are
valued highly for accuracy, and for good reason. Joe Bloe's backyard
next to his barbecue isn't exactly a good weather site, and who knows
how often he's maintained the equipment, or how often X readings are
taken, etc. :)
How did you configure the firefox readings to make it to Cathay,
where ever that is, ND. I have no idea where that is, and why not
post it for a larger town, like Harvey, which is 2000 people
approximately, compared to that little jerk water which is probably
smaller than this town which, is, after all, the county seat. :)
I will try your recommendations, but I couldn't even get any reading
for Sacramento,
95816, or 95814, and also, when I "enabled" a site, in the
configuration of the script, I could "enable" it again, which doesn't
make sense? :)
Curtis Delzer
At 06:58 PM 6/26/2008, Mike Pietruk wrote:
Curtis
ok. This sounds sort of familiar. A year or so back, I was playing with
the database Serotek uses with System Access to GO and discovered much the
same phenomenon for certain locations.
It would pick up unexpected info and not handle it correctly.
After some experimenttation with Wunderground, I discovered that,
dependent on how one has there Wunderground preferences set, one may get
weather either from the nearest airport (probably Devils Lake, in your
case) or the nearest weather station.
So when I use IE6 with Wunderground, in your case, I get current
conditions for Devils Lake.
In Firefox, due to my intentionally setting my preferences, I get
conditions from a place called
Cathay, ND.
Now, what we would need to know next from whoever at GWMicro wrote this
script is this:
are Wunderground parameters set by the script or how they happen to be on
your pc?
Wunderground provides a great deal of flexibility and tweeking it may be
something important here.
Personally, I prefer using the official air port locations, but others
more often than not rather see these public sites referenced as they, such
as in your case, they are closer to where you are.
What I do not like about
some of these sites, however, is some may not be calibrated all that well
as generated numbers often are outliers and observations may not include
wind speed, dew point, whatever if the equipment at that point doesn't
supply that type of data.
Devils lake zip code is 58301; and perhaps you may wish to try that and
see if you get better results using that.
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