WU Forecast showing km/h not mph?

[KevinF]

Hi Will...You are asking for an unusual combination I would say, but I'm from another era. My formative years in education were in the 60's. An era when metrification was foisted on us by our so called honourable elected politicians against the majority will of the people. Although the metrification battle has been going on for 200 years it picked up again in the 60's. Hence, my preference is still imperial, but both systems of measurement, were taught. I'm not sure what the deal is now in our education establishments, but I have an inkling that they will be pushing even harder to acquire full re-education of students to think metric only! This after all is what the government want and part of the globalistic agenda - one world order and all that. I'm very pleased that our cousins in the USA have resisted the pressure....so far! They are one of only a few countries in the world to remain predominantly imperial.

Centigrade and MPH would upset the people in power, because as Ken says 'there is no mix and match'. Indeed, mixing and matching, would be construed as confusion by our masters and thus further their ultimate goal and justification for full metrification. They would say 'right! enough is enough! Words like fahrenheit, mph, inches, and ounces are dirty words and must not be used in any educational establishment!'.

You see, our masters like discord amongst the plebs - it gives them reason to push their agenda, which in future will not include imperial measures!

Having said all that, I hope you do find a script that you like. One thing for sure MPH will always remain! Let us know how you go on and always use your preferred combination of measurements regardless.....sorry for going on

Kevin

Merry Christmas

[BCJKiwi]

So you are currently getting a Metric forecast and want to display MPH for the wind speed?
If so you could try working backward, i.e.
1. In settings.php - in the specific #WU-History settings section - change the units setup in to get an 'English' forecast. That should give you degF and MPH.
2. In WU-forecast.php - near the end of the settings section and in the following overrides section;
a. configure $showTempsAs to display temps in C.
b. you may need to rem out the site override for uomTemp as well.

I have not tried this so have no idea if it will actually do what you want, nor what other effects there may be.

Hope this helps.

Merry CHRISTmas

[William Grimsley]

Hi BCJKiwi,

I can't find anything in Settings.php?

Will

[BCJKiwi]

here?

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$SITE['fcstscript']	= 'WU-forecast.php';    // Non-USA, Non-Canada Wunderground Forecast Script
$SITE['fcstorg']		= 'WU';    // set to 'WU' for WeatherUnderground
// Uncomment the two lines below to use WXSIM as the ONLY forecast script to use
// $SITE['fcstscript']	= 'plaintext-parser.php';    // WXSIM forecast (if only forecast script)
// $SITE['fcstorg']		= 'WXSIM';    // set to 'WXSIM' for WXSIM forecast
// 
// For Europe only, use the meteoalarm.eu site for your area's watches/warnings on the wxadvisory page
// $SITE['EUwarningURL']	= 'http://www.meteoalarm.eu/index3.php?area=DK004&day=0&lang=en_UK';
// EUwarningURL is used by get-meteoalarm-warning-inc.php for EU countries
###########################################################################
# WU-History settings
$SITE['WUID']		= 'IAUCKLAN110'; // set to Wunderground ID (upper case)
//$SITE['WUunits']	= 'M';		// units to display 'E'=english, 'M'=metric, 'B'=both
//             comment $SITE['WUunits'] above out to use uomTemp to select English or Metric
$SITE['WUstationname'] = 'YOUR SITE NAME'; // for legend at bottom of page
$SITE['WUbirthday']	= '12-34-2012'; //Stations first day of operation format dd-mm-yyyy
###########################################################################
##########################################################################
# end of configurable settings
##########################################################################

[William Grimsley]

Hi BCJKiwi,

I moved that code, but still I changed this code from:

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//$SITE['WUunits']   = 'M';      // units to display 'E'=english, 'M'=metric, 'B'=both

To

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//$SITE['WUunits']   = 'E';      // units to display 'E'=english, 'M'=metric, 'B'=both

and still no luck. This makes me think that this is the WU History page and nothing to do with the forecast itself?

Thanks

Will

[BCJKiwi]

Yes you are right, sorry about that!

Well the only other way would be to modify the WU-forecast script itself to convert all the kph values to mph but that would be rather complicated. I have made mods to that script for layout of the icons and it was not easy.

I am not sure why you really want to do this.
'Joe Public' would surely expect to be reading all metric or all imperial redgardless of what the 'official' line might be.
If on the other hand your audience is weather aficionados, then surely they would understand also.

I suggest you learn to live with it and, if you feel it necessary, include an explanatory note on the page between the icon section and the forecast section.

[steve]

'Joe Public' would surely expect to be reading all metric or all imperial redgardless of what the 'official' line might be.

Just to cloud the issue a little more, the official unit of wind speed in the UK is actually the knot.

[BCJKiwi]

Well you'll not get knots out of WU ever! .

Merry Christmas Steve and family. Thanks again for the great program and the support.

[William Grimsley]

Well, I'll just have to live with it...

[William Grimsley]

Don't know if this is getting somewhere?

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if (isset($SITE['WUunits']))	{$uomWind = $SITE['WUunits'];}

Trying my hardest...

[William Grimsley]

I just had another ago. It looks like it's impossible to solve.

Also, how do you change the WU-forecast.php script from Metric to English? I want to try something...

[saratogaWX]

I fear you had forgotten my prior posts on this subject, and for some inexplicable reason, you continue to pursue this trivial issue.

To reprise:
1) WeatherUnderground offers forecasts in two unit systems - 'English' with F,mph and 'Metric' with C,km/h -- there is no 'British' option available.
2) my WU-forecast script presents what WU offers and I don't mess-about with the verbiage of the forecast as it is many times, not in English, so the parsing would be a horrendous task (and that is why I excluded adding that potential code).

Give it a rest William. I think most folks viewing your website would have no concern about winds forecast in km/h and would have much greater issue if your temperatures in the forecast were in Fahrenheit (which is your ONLY option to achieve mph winds).

[William Grimsley]

I fear you had forgotten my prior posts on this subject, and for some inexplicable reason, you continue to pursue this trivial issue.

To reprise:
1) WeatherUnderground offers forecasts in two unit systems - 'English' with F,mph and 'Metric' with C,km/h -- there is no 'British' option available.
2) my WU-forecast script presents what WU offers and I don't mess-about with the verbiage of the forecast as it is many times, not in English, so the parsing would be a horrendous task (and that is why I excluded adding that potential code).

Give it a rest William. I think most folks viewing your website would have no concern about winds forecast in km/h and would have much greater issue if your temperatures in the forecast were in Fahrenheit (which is your ONLY option to achieve mph winds).

Hi Ken,

Yes, I did forget, sorry.

1) Ok, I see.

2) Yes, parsing would be a horrendous task, by the sound of things!

Ok, I will give it a rest and yes I think having Fahrenheit on my website would be much worse than having km/h on my website!

Thanks for your help,

William