Topic: WU - Let us know your issues

[Rychu]

The old site seems to be working the way it used it, except I can't log in and have the annoying ads.  But I'll take 'em if it means I get rapidfire and accurate summary tables.

Install "Adblock Plus" - it will block ads from you 

[WSWeather]

The old site seems to be working the way it used it, except I can't log in and have the annoying ads.  But I'll take 'em if it means I get rapidfire and accurate summary tables.

Install "Adblock Plus" - it will block ads from you 

I prefer uBlock Origin as it will also let you easily block annoying things like the "warning banner" at the top.

[WunderTodd (PWS PM)]

Hi everyone,

Just checking in with you this week to let you know we're still here, still fixing, still listening.

And yes, that includes bringing rapid fire & decimals to our re-styled dashboard pages.

--Us

[mdv]

Hi everyone,

Just checking in with you this week to let you know we're still here, still fixing, still listening.

And yes, that includes bringing rapid fire & decimals to our re-styled dashboard pages.

--Us

Excellent news, thank you.

I think you would agree that having the decimals is very important. Compare the two graphs below of the same data, and you would have to agree that the graph based on whole numbers is pretty goofy.

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I also hope that the 10-day forecast graph in the new style website does not differ from the old style (shown below). This is my 'go to' graph, and everything I need to know is in a single view.

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[Ajward7976]

So I think I just successfully connected to cwop. I could use some educating on using it. Which forum would I be most successful? Btw, not leaving WU, just learning how to upload in more places.

[CW2274]

So I think I just successfully connected to cwop. I could use some educating on using it. Which forum would I be most successful? Btw, not leaving WU, just learning how to upload in more places.

If you have your ID, search these two.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/

https://madis-data.ncep.noaa.gov/MadisSurface/

[Tangmu]

Hi everyone,

Just checking in with you this week to let you know we're still here, still fixing, still listening.

And yes, that includes bringing rapid fire & decimals to our re-styled dashboard pages.

--Us

Wouldn't your company like to save a lot of time and money?  Instead of re-inventing the wheel as a flaccid pancake, close this project, move on to something that needs fixing, and leave the old site as it is.  Give everyone a link where we can leave glowing feedback for your bosses.  Everyone wins!!!  I can't imagine what the goal is here.        Please? 

[Bunty]

I still like Flash Fire, but what is so great about it, since it's on its way out?  It's not going to be supported much longer.  One thing I don't like about it is how you have to click to activate Flash when using Chrome.  You don't have to when using Firefox.  Yowindow is still getting by on Flash.  I have no idea what the problem is unless the alternatives are regarded as too complex or costly.

[Ajward7976]

So I think I just successfully connected to cwop. I could use some educating on using it. Which forum would I be most successful? Btw, not leaving WU, just learning how to upload in more places.

If you have your ID, search these two.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/

https://madis-data.ncep.noaa.gov/MadisSurface/

My ID is Fw4496.   One thing I read says it could take a week to show up on those two sites. True?

Here is a site I was given to my station.

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=FW4496

[WheatonRon]

So I think I just successfully connected to cwop. I could use some educating on using it. Which forum would I be most successful? Btw, not leaving WU, just learning how to upload in more places.

If you have your ID, search these two.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/

https://madis-data.ncep.noaa.gov/MadisSurface/

My ID is Fw4496.   One thing I read says it could take a week to show up on those two sites. True?

Here is a site I was given to my station.

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=FW4496

That is true assuming you properly completed your registration with CWOP. I added a third pws recently to CWOP but did not “confirm my coordinates.” Until I did that, my station showed on findu but not on MesoWest nor did Madis grade my station. Once I confirmed my coordinates with CWOP, it took about a week for the data to flow. Sorry to those readers that want to beat up on WU again! A great question by Ajward7976, just wrong thread—but we easily forgive here!

[toddiscdn]

Check in your Chrome advanced settings and turn on "Use hardware acceleration when available" under the "System" header. Your map background should load after restarting your browser.

Bingo!  Thanks Mike.

[Ajward7976]

So I think I just successfully connected to cwop. I could use some educating on using it. Which forum would I be most successful? Btw, not leaving WU, just learning how to upload in more places.

If you have your ID, search these two.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/

https://madis-data.ncep.noaa.gov/MadisSurface/

My ID is Fw4496.   One thing I read says it could take a week to show up on those two sites. True?

Here is a site I was given to my station.

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=FW4496

That is true assuming you properly completed your registration with CWOP. I added a third pws recently to CWOP but did not “confirm my coordinates.” Until I did that, my station showed on findu but not on MesoWest nor did Madis grade my station. Once I confirmed my coordinates with CWOP, it took about a week for the data to flow. Sorry to those readers that want to beat up on WU again! A great question by Ajward7976, just wrong thread—but we easily forgive here!

Thanks again... last question and I'll leave it alone.. to confirm my coordinates.... just an email verification of location right? If so I did it.

[Mike Fitz]

Check in your Chrome advanced settings and turn on "Use hardware acceleration when available" under the "System" header. Your map background should load after restarting your browser.

Bingo!  Thanks Mike.

You're welcome, not sure why it's set up to only use hardware acceleration in Chrome but not something easy to figure out when the maps don't show up.

[WheatonRon]

So I think I just successfully connected to cwop. I could use some educating on using it. Which forum would I be most successful? Btw, not leaving WU, just learning how to upload in more places.

If you have your ID, search these two.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/

https://madis-data.ncep.noaa.gov/MadisSurface/

My ID is Fw4496.   One thing I read says it could take a week to show up on those two sites. True?

Here is a site I was given to my station.

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=FW4496

That is true assuming you properly completed your registration with CWOP. I added a third pws recently to CWOP but did not “confirm my coordinates.” Until I did that, my station showed on findu but not on MesoWest nor did Madis grade my station. Once I confirmed my coordinates with CWOP, it took about a week for the data to flow. Sorry to those readers that want to beat up on WU again! A great question by Ajward7976, just wrong thread—but we easily forgive here!

Thanks again... last question and I'll leave it alone.. to confirm my coordinates.... just an email verification of location right? If so I did it.

That should work.

[Ajward7976]

Excellent! You have been an excellent help. Much appreciated! My apologies to all for wrong forum thread.

[antstrafer]

So I think I just successfully connected to cwop. I could use some educating on using it. Which forum would I be most successful? Btw, not leaving WU, just learning how to upload in more places.

If you have your ID, search these two.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/

https://madis-data.ncep.noaa.gov/MadisSurface/

My ID is Fw4496.   One thing I read says it could take a week to show up on those two sites. True?

Here is a site I was given to my station.

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=FW4496

That is true assuming you properly completed your registration with CWOP. I added a third pws recently to CWOP but did not “confirm my coordinates.” Until I did that, my station showed on findu but not on MesoWest nor did Madis grade my station. Once I confirmed my coordinates with CWOP, it took about a week for the data to flow. Sorry to those readers that want to beat up on WU again! A great question by Ajward7976, just wrong thread—but we easily forgive here!

I registered with CWOP but unsure how to confirm coordinates with CWOP.     I am staying the WU but the metiobridge sure makes it easy to send to PWS, CWOP Wcloud etc

[bigben089]

Without reading back through all the posts, what the heck happened to the old website? This new one is unfinished and should not be accessible. The table (summary of readings) is inaccurate. Switch it back NOW!

[mdv]

Without reading back through all the posts, what the heck happened to the old website? This new one is unfinished and should not be accessible. The table (summary of readings) is inaccurate. Switch it back NOW!

Dear bigben089, I am disappointed at the lack of tact and respect in what is your first-time post.

Had you bothered to read even part of this thread, you would quickly come to realise that the issues are well known; that the WU Team is working hard to fix the issues; and most importantly that the old site is still accessible - see Reply #1705 on p69, and read onwards.

Shouting (via capital letters) in a post is not helpful to the cause of having the WU Team resolve the issues.

[awsum140]

While bigben089 may have been a little abrupt, he is expressing what seems to be the general trend of this thread.  We're over a week into this "wonderful" new web change and not much has improved.  I know the WU team is working on it, but I suspect they are totally overwhelmed after rolling out a project that just wasn't ready to go live at the behest of some, I'll be polite, "higher ups" forcing it to be done.  I don't blame the messengers, it's the "higher ups" that deserve the blame.

[galfert]

Has anyone tested Favorites with the new UI? I'm particularly interested in if you can now reliably remove Favorites and duplicates. I don't want to mess with my Favorites because I managed to a while ago reduce it down to just one, and then not use the feature. Favorites was worthless anyway because you couldn't Favorite a station...only a city. If you mess with it they seem to multiply like rabbits....at least that was one of the problems before.

See this post for how before I was able to trim the multiplicity of Favorites (wasn't easy):
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=34871.msg356092#msg356092

[jas340]

My main reason for still providing this asinine company with my PWS data is because I do not know how to switch to Weather Display from WU in order to supply data to my Meteotemplate website. If I did I would have dropped them along time ago. Just the other day WU stopped providing data to my IPtimelapse program for my webcams.(The nonsense with API keys I guess).

[Ajward7976]

My main reason for still providing this asinine company with my PWS data is because I do not know how to switch to Weather Display from WU in order to supply data to my Meteotemplate website. If I did I would have dropped them along time ago. Just the other day WU stopped providing data to my IPtimelapse program for my webcams.(The nonsense with API keys I guess).

Does your Meteotemplate website ( I don't know what this option is) have rapid fire? Just curious how many other options provide such a feature without paying for it. 

[galfert]

My main reason for still providing this asinine company with my PWS data is because I do not know how to switch to Weather Display from WU in order to supply data to my Meteotemplate website. If I did I would have dropped them along time ago. Just the other day WU stopped providing data to my IPtimelapse program for my webcams.(The nonsense with API keys I guess).

Does your Meteotemplate website ( I don't know what this option is) have rapid fire? Just curious how many other options provide such a feature without paying for it.

Already covered that on page 62 of this thread (5 days ago):
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=33651.msg374464#msg374464

[WSWeather]

Has anyone tested Favorites with the new UI? I'm particularly interested in if you can now reliably remove Favorites and duplicates.

It is still hopelessly broken.  I tested it Sunday and I now have 28 duplicates (up from 26), any newly-added PWS favorites change themselves to some other nearby location because it "saves" them using coordinates, not PWS codes, and about half the time it doesn't do anything but reinstate the duplicates you just deleted.   I had a "clean" set until they logged me out the other day and when I logged back in there was all the crap that I had managed to avoid on this browser.

I got so frustrated I used uBlock Origin to just get rid of the bar since it was uselessly taking up screen space.  If someone reports it is working again I'll unblock it and try again but given that this has been malfunctioning for over a year I am not going to hold my breath.

[galfert]

Has anyone tested Favorites with the new UI? I'm particularly interested in if you can now reliably remove Favorites and duplicates.

It is still hopelessly broken.  I tested it Sunday and I now have 28 duplicates (up from 26), any newly-added PWS favorites change themselves to some other nearby location because it "saves" them using coordinates, not PWS codes, and about half the time it doesn't do anything but reinstate the duplicates you just deleted.   I had a "clean" set until they logged me out the other day and when I logged back in there was all the crap that I had managed to avoid on this browser.

I got so frustrated I used uBlock Origin to just get rid of the bar since it was uselessly taking up screen space.  If someone reports it is working again I'll unblock it and try again but given that this has been malfunctioning for over a year I am not going to hold my breath.

Thank you for the update. I hope they fix this too (but lower on the priority list obviously).

Did you attempt my method for reducing Favorites down to a just 2 or 3...or anyone else for that matter? My method may seem complicated at first but you get the hang of it pretty quick and then you can work the list down. Although your method to use uBlock is ingenious too.

Link to my WU Favorites Reducing Method:
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=34871.msg356092#msg356092