Tag: General
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Watching the Tracks
A lot of the fun of weather geeking, I find, is just trying to watch stuff come… so here’s something to watch. There’s another low out in the Pacific “intensifying” and headed Gulf of Alaska way that will bring hurricane force winds to regions close to it. The High Seas Forecast (under Forecast–>Marine) predicts it…
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A Break Between Storms
All the warnings for Vancouver Island have Ended… we should have a couple days of decent weather and then Thursday will bring us lots of rain and possibly more wind. If you’d like to see the previous post with the comments just use the “Previous” link at the bottom of this message.
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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…