Author: Alberniweather Blog (Chris)
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Snow?
I’ve heard rumblings that it might dip below zero in the next week or so… the skiers will be happy for sure. Who knows if we’ll get any of the white stuff down here. It’s my birthday today… I can’t ever remember there being snow on my birthday.. maybe next year! 🙂 Oh ya, and…
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Added Freezing Level
I’ve added an estimated Freezing Level (4th column, under Dewpoint). I’m undecided whether I’ll keep it… due to our very common “temperature inversions” that we have in the Valley. But generally, if people remember that if we have fog in the morning, then the estimate will be off.. then it should be OK. 🙂
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Time Change
Remember to turn your clocks back one hour tonight! Me? I’m going to turn the clock forward.. not at home, but on my weather station. From this point on, I’m going to be using UTC for the weather station. (Universal Time, or Greenwich Mean Time). That means I won’t have to bother worrying about daylight…
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Convert Units with new Menu!
It’s Done! You can now convert all the text (no images yet) data into a variety of different units! Use the new menu to the right of the “About” menu to do this… there are settings for US, Nautical, and a variety of national and International Metric standards. I tried to create options that would…
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Unit Conversion being implemented
I’ve got the basics down for the Unit Conversion mechanism… so now it’s just a matter of applying all the math. 🙂 The first change you will notice is the Barometer measurements since, in Canada, we generally use kiloPascals (kPa)… that is the first change I’ve made. It is simply one decimal off of hPa…