If you use the Microsoft Speech Framework with Window-Eyes or NVDA, you find 
that it expands a ton of abbreviations. Not only may you get megabytes 
instead of millibars, but Marshall Islands instead of millihenries and 
multnomas instead of mults (shorthand for multipliers). Steve in 
Philadelphia becomes kilowatt 3 A, and so on.
73,


Lloyd Rasmussen, W 3 I U U, Kensington, M D
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: David W Wood
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 3:21 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: odd finding at braille.wunderground.com

Dave

Funny you should mention weather as, yesterday, I looked at my favourite
local weather site using NVDA rather than my more usual JAWS.

I was informed that the pressure was 1006 megabytes!

You could try a web search for, say:

Davis vantage weather station pro - followed by the name of your town.

They have a network world wide of amateur meteorologists who use their gear
and put it onto the web.

73

David W Wood
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Dave Allen
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 7:00 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: odd finding at braille.wunderground.com

Hi all!

I often use this site for checking weather in other places, but saw
something there today that really surprised me.

When checking shd, which is the airport code for Shenandoah Valley regional
airport, the forecast looke mostly reasonable, but the shock is the
expectation of temperature, regardless of whether it's talking about night
or day. Jaws says 10000C for all.

The current conditions and everything else seems reasponable, but those
temperatures suggested in the forecast certainly strike me as unthinkable,
hi hi.

Just wondering if others see similar problems with other area forecasts, or
if there is perhaps a better place to look, given that particular result is
so outlandish to be useful.

The main reason I went there today was to see when sunset was in order to
calculate a time for suggesting a sked to a friend in that area, but that
temperature expectation definitely floored me!

73,
Dave

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