WOW updating - so far so good

[steve]

Hi Adrian - good to hear that you're working on the performance issues, that's the main thing that's currently spoiling an otherwise excellent site. Can you confirm that you will be changing the AWS interface to accept SLP rather than station pressure? And will you be also adding other parameters such as sunshine hours etc?

[Solorize]

I havn't had the "Latest Observation" graphs
display for days

I've tried refreshing the page but still wont show.
Anyone else still having the same problem as me?

[steve]

I've tried refreshing the page but still wont show.
Anyone else still having the same problem as me?

Mine very rarely shows. I'm sure that once they have done the performance improvements tomorrow, the graph display will be more reliable.

[Tau Bootis]

I have had the same issue but lately its not been too bad;

have you seen the message on the Home page re. site improvements tomorrow?

[Orion]

WOW latest
A small number of performance improvements have been released as part of version 1.1.
Please continue to let us know how WOW is performing for you, we really value the feedback.

[Sunfish]

Well, it's certainly a lot faster.

[daj]

Yes, but the Map is still slow at "Fetching Data from Server" -- maybe this is to do with the interface they have with Google Maps.

The site generally is faster.

[Solorize]

The site is definitely a lot faster now

But the Dew Point is not showing on my "Latest Observation" graph.

Anyone else having the same happen to them?

[Paul C]

I have tried this today aswell- Its OK but does appear slow to me fetching the data. I am using cumulus to do the updates and added in a manual entry for my 10am weather report which I think has confused it. I somehow have 0.5mm of rainfall, cumulus has 0.2mm since 10am and 0.4mm since midnight. No sunshine entry as yet and pressure is displayed in hps rather than mb.

Good luck I say - hope it doesnt get swamped with spurrious reports - I see there was a 7c just north of London earlier today stood out like a sore thumb.

I wonder if you can use the webpage in your own site ?

[Sunfish]

Paul

I'm interested in your Rapid Fire display in both Metric and Imperial. I don't believe that is a WU option, but perhaps I am mistaken.

It's a very good idea.

[Paul C]

Paul

I'm interested in your Rapid Fire display in both Metric and Imperial. I don't believe that is a WU option, but perhaps I am mistaken.

It's a very good idea.

Not sure I have done anything special ? what link are you looking at ?

[Sunfish]

Open 'Current Data' and then 'Live Weather'--'Rapid Fire Wunderground'

[steve]

Open 'Current Data' and then 'Live Weather'--'Rapid Fire Wunderground'

Here's your corresponding link: http://www.wunderground.com/swf/Rapid_F ... IMIDDLES19

I assume you knew about Rapid Fire - it's the "units=both" bit that does metric and imperial simultaneously.

[stuartp]

The site is definitely a lot faster now
But the Dew Point is not showing on my "Latest Observation" graph.
Anyone else having the same happen to them?

Same here - but I agree that the site is so much more responsive now.

One thing I noticed this morning is that my browser (Firefox 3.6 Mac OS X) was not updating the records when I started my Mac this morning once "Catch Up" in Cumulus had done its bit. I remembered that later yesterday after the WOW upgrade that Firefox has asked if "I wanted to store data locally for off-line-use". Stupidly I clicked "yes". It seems that this morning WOW thought I was using it off-line and refused to update the tables - despite some of the graphs updating. I cleared by browser settings (tick the Site Preferences option in Firefox - deleting WOW cookies was not enough) and then WOW displayed the last 8 hours data correctly.

I have noticed a few stations that are way out especially as regards pressure readings - I assume this is due to some data being MSL and some being Station presure.

Regards,

Stuart

[daj]

....I have noticed a few stations that are way out especially as regards pressure readings - I assume this is due to some data being MSL and some being Station presure.

"Note that the WOW site is still in beta and there are a few things still to sort out. Notably, they have for some reason decided to require station pressure rather than sea level pressure. They then calculate SLP using the altitude that you have supplied. Cumulus supplies SLP for this, so the calculation comes out wrong. I have heard that they are going to change to accept SLP, so I'm leaving the code as it is for now. A possible circumvention might be to set your altitude to zero (on the WOW site)."

https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5247