Posted: Thu 28 Jul 2016, 18:55
Thanks, ASD, for your reply.
The BBC weather site I was mentioning earlier is http://www.bbc.com/weather/.
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You said above:
> I think you believe the time periods shown relate directly to the chosen
location. May I ask if you think this likely or certain?
I think it is "quite likely". I think that weather science will never be as precise as
physics or chemistry, so I will not use the word "certain".
I have observed that the closer I got to my location, the more exact the readings
were. When I asked for a weather report for the Gatineau airport 15 miles away
from my place, the results were indeed a bit "ballpark".
But the report reflected my weather quite accurately if I based it on my postal code
-- or better still, on the longitude and latitude of my location, as I explained to
davids45 above.
Forum member Geoffrey published a little utility called Locator 3.5 that will help you
pinpoint the longitude and latitude of your location. It's here.
Here is how to do it:
For the sake of argument, let's say that you want to know the current weather at
the Visitor Centre, on Signal Hill, next to the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and
Labrador, Canada.
Launch Geoffrey's Locator:
Type: "Signal Hill, Newfoundland, Canada" in the top box.
You are presented with a map.
Click anywhere on the map.
Your Internet browser will open with a bigger map of that location.
Locate the "visitor centre" on the map
Click on it
Now to the left, at the top of the same web page, a panel with the coordinates for
longitude and latitude of the visitor centre will be shown.
Highlight and copy those coordinates
Now in the weather menu:
Click on sub-menu "Favorites"
click on "Add an entry"
in the box that appears, on the last line, paste the coordinates you picked up above
hit return: the entry is saved.
Back to the menu, click on the last entry (which you have just created):
the weather report for the visitor centre on Signal Hill will be shown.
You can find the exact location of your home in this same way. You need to do this
only once, of course.
Afterwards, every time you click on the menu entry for those long./lat. coordinates,
you will get the weather report for your home location.
IHTH. BFN.
The BBC weather site I was mentioning earlier is http://www.bbc.com/weather/.
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You said above:
> I think you believe the time periods shown relate directly to the chosen
location. May I ask if you think this likely or certain?
I think it is "quite likely". I think that weather science will never be as precise as
physics or chemistry, so I will not use the word "certain".
I have observed that the closer I got to my location, the more exact the readings
were. When I asked for a weather report for the Gatineau airport 15 miles away
from my place, the results were indeed a bit "ballpark".
But the report reflected my weather quite accurately if I based it on my postal code
-- or better still, on the longitude and latitude of my location, as I explained to
davids45 above.
Forum member Geoffrey published a little utility called Locator 3.5 that will help you
pinpoint the longitude and latitude of your location. It's here.
Here is how to do it:
For the sake of argument, let's say that you want to know the current weather at
the Visitor Centre, on Signal Hill, next to the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and
Labrador, Canada.
Launch Geoffrey's Locator:
Type: "Signal Hill, Newfoundland, Canada" in the top box.
You are presented with a map.
Click anywhere on the map.
Your Internet browser will open with a bigger map of that location.
Locate the "visitor centre" on the map
Click on it
Now to the left, at the top of the same web page, a panel with the coordinates for
longitude and latitude of the visitor centre will be shown.
Highlight and copy those coordinates
Now in the weather menu:
Click on sub-menu "Favorites"
click on "Add an entry"
in the box that appears, on the last line, paste the coordinates you picked up above
hit return: the entry is saved.
Back to the menu, click on the last entry (which you have just created):
the weather report for the visitor centre on Signal Hill will be shown.
You can find the exact location of your home in this same way. You need to do this
only once, of course.
Afterwards, every time you click on the menu entry for those long./lat. coordinates,
you will get the weather report for your home location.
IHTH. BFN.