Topic: Ideas on what to do next

[weatherforyou]

It's been a few years since the last major change to PWSweather.com.  While we're not anticipating as many sweeping changes as the last one, we still want to know where to go to next.  What should be added?  Anything need to be changed?  I saw the thread about WeatherBug ideas and we'd like some, too.  We've been doing it for 13 years now and have changed as new ideas came, but we haven't had any suggestions in quite a while.  I know we're not perfect and the few of us who run the system can't have all the ideas.    So let us know!

Thanks!

[JACK10562]

13 years! Congratulations!

Myself and a few others are still holding out for solar/UV data to be incorporated sometime in the near future, as mentioned in another suggestion thread. Tabular readings and a graph, or maybe even gauges?

Keep up the good work! 

[weatherforyou]

Myself and a few others are still holding out for solar/UV data to be incorporated sometime in the near future, as mentioned in another suggestion thread. Tabular readings and a graph, or maybe even gauges?

Most software is sending solar/UV data to us now so we can look at adding it again.  Thanks for the reminder.

[Skywatch]

I too strongly support UV/solar. I think it's a good idea. Another thing I would like is an Iphone, Itouch or Ipad app. Something I also like is a live display. I hate having to hit the refresh button to update to the current information. Another thing would be cool is interactive graphs. You move the curser over a dot on the graph and it displays that data value. I heard from someone that PWS data is recieved in the same format as Wunderground does. If so I would also like to send current conditions like CLR (clear), OVC (overcast), BKN (broken), SCT (scattered clouds) the same way you would to Wunderground. And a weather cam feature. I don't personally use a weather cam but alot of those who do might like it.

[Weather Display]

If so I would also like to send current conditions like CLR (clear), OVC (overcast), BKN (broken), SCT (scattered clouds) the same way you would to Wunderground

that should info should already being sent, if its set to be sent to WU
(might depend on what software you are using)

[weatherforyou]

I would also like to send current conditions like CLR (clear), OVC (overcast), BKN (broken), SCT (scattered clouds)

That is a function of the software.  I know VWS and Weather Display do, not sure about the others.  We've been able to utilize that data since the beginning.  And in our case the sky conditions from the personal weather stations are actually used on WeatherForYou.com for the local conditions (except when they're not available, then we use the closest station's sky conditions).  The sky conditions are also in the XML and regular data feeds of the personal weather station data.

[Skywatch]

I think I'm missing something. Not shure about VWS but Weather Display uses solar/UV data to get sky conditions which is absolutly useless at night. Right now the forecast page says clear which is right but after sundown the solar % drops to 0 and WD makes sky conditions off of this. So while the page says clear and it is actually clear, WD reports overcast or OVC. So what's on the forecast page isn't coming from us. But I could be overlooking something.

[weatherforyou]

In my use of Weather Display the conditions sent were either manually set (in the respective service's section in WD) or could be set to use the sky conditions from the closest METAR station.  I wasn't aware of any ability to use the solar/UV data (which wouldn't work in my case since I don't have a solar/UV sensor).  I almost always set it manually in the PWSweather section.

[LFWX]

  Anything need to be changed? 

The rainfall data has (had?) always been 'odd' (my data is sent using VWS).
I see that it now seems to be showing correctly in the 'Details' table, but doesn't appear in the 'Summary' table.

Two examples.
0.03" on this date http://www.pwsweather.com/archivewx.php?id=DW1039&d=20120102
0.43" on this date http://www.pwsweather.com/archivewx.php?id=DW1039&d=20110825

The precipitation graph ('Trends') shows correctly, but if I select 'View the detailed graph' it doesn't show.

Everything else looks great,
Mike

PS - I need to change "(Daytime Fan Aspirated)" to "(Fan Aspirated)" in the 'Station Type'.

[cospringswx]

Send webcam images?

[K4KMG]

A little something that would be helpful. I live in SC. When I want to see the weather in my hometown, where the rest of the family is located, wu caches my recent searches and displays them. I don't have to type in the zip....just click on Vero.