Classic.wunderground.com was supposed to have closed down yesterday. When I
tried to go to that page, IE 11 was redirected to
classic.wunderground.com/mr . I don't know whether this is a site optimized
for mobile devices or not, but it is not at all the same as the classic
site. Lots of headings and lots of links. I'm not sure whether it would be
easier than the main www.wunderground.com site or not, but I suspect it
would be. They received a lot of angry criticism about their decision to
shut down the classic page, from sighted weather buffs who want things to
remain the same.
It is often difficult to determine what a website is doing, with the use of
cookies, JavaScript and information interchange that optimizes a site based
on the "user agent string" sent by your browser. This string tells whether
you are using Lynx, Netscape, FireFox, IE, etc.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Behler
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 7:08 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: odd finding at braille.wunderground.com
Lloyd and all:
Today, I had a very strange experience with Wunderground, and I'm wondering
if it might be related to the pending discontinuation of the wunderground
classic web site.
This afternoon, while at work, I tried accessing the streaming audio from
the NWS transmitter that is nearest to where I live, and when I clicked on
the usual URL:
http://classic.wunderground.com/wxradio/
I automatically got the streaming audio feed from the NWS office in
Huntsville, Alabama. I then scrolled down through the list of streaming
broadcasts, until I found the one from my local office here in west-central
Lower Michigan.
When I hit enter on it, the local broadcast came up, but underneath it was
still the Huntsville, Alabama audio feed.
Needless to say, this made for a rather challenging listening experience.
What is really strange is that I couldn't get rid of the Huntsville
broadcast, no matter what I did.
Has anyone seen this kind of behavior, and if so, how do you get rid of it?
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Lloyd Rasmussen
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 7:25 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: odd finding at braille.wunderground.com
I have not used braille.wunderground.com, although I knew of its existence.
That is until last Friday. Wunderground announced that they were no longer
creating a classic.wunderground.com site, which I had been enjoying. It had
multiple tables and links, as well as a link to the latest from the local
National Weather Service offfice. But they said that their classic site was
too difficult to maintain and it was time to move on and use the regular
www.wunderground.com site. My first couple of experiences with that site and
Window-Eyes 9.1 were not very encouraging. Besides, apparently
wunderground.com has been bought by The Weather Channel, so we can expect
more commercial stuff and graphics as time goes on. Braille.wunderground.com
seems to be coded with a few more words and possibly simplified language,
and no obvious controls for Fahrenheit vs. Celsius, and other preferences.
We'll see what happens next.
Perhaps this is why Lowell, W8QIY, feeds his weather station data into a
different network these days.
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Allen
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 1:59 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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Blind-Sight Limited
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