Hi Martin: Sorry you are disappointed with WeatherBug. It is designed for the United States and not the world. It's what I'm primarily interested in where I live, work and play. If I need wx for foreign countries I go to the NOAA NWS or to a commercial site like you do.
WeatherBug does give detailed wx info. It gives dozens of obs and forecasts in Montgomery County, MD alone from many elementary, middle and high schools. I assume the weather info sites you like for foreign countries have the same detailed data for their areas such as the WeatherBug has for Montgomery County, MD in the US. Right? Please let me know where I can get similar detailed info from various provinces in other countries such as areas in and around Garmisch, Manheim or Heidelberg, Germany. There are many commercial wx info sites which have weather info for airports around the world because that's where established obs and forecast info has been and will be available in various forms for aviation primarily and for other purposes. Those data have been and are exchanged internationally regularly via the weather Global Telecommunications System. It's been that way for many decades at least dating back to the 1950s and 1960s. Regards, Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Vlietstra To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:13 PM Subject: [USMA:38721] RE: metric weather web sites Hi Stanley, I tried Weatherbug out - I was disappointed, I could not get London's weather forecast, nor could I get my home town (population 30,000) Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: STANLEY DOORE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 May 2007 03:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; U.S. Metric Association Subject: Re: [USMA:38713] RE: metric weather web sites Martin et al: If you go to www.weatherbug.com you will find that ALL parameters toggle between English and metric units when you click on the switch just below the temperature. Wind speeds are in km/h, rainfall in mm, temperature in tenths of degrees C etc. It's very readable and user friendly. The weather observation instruments are located on many elementary and high schools in addition to airports throughout the US. Therefore it shows a very dense local network of observations while it provides many local, regional and national weather charts, and radar and satellite images from the NOAA National Weather Service than those sites you reference. Try it. You'll like it. Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Vlietstra To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:10 PM Subject: [USMA:38713] RE: metric weather web sites I normally use www.wetteronline.de (it is in German) and, apart from wind-speed is 100% metric. If you use www.weatheronline.co.uk, you get the British version - same graphics, metric and imperial. However, try using www.weatheronline.com and you get everything that the USMA (and UKMA) are fighting against - you would not know that it is related to the other two sites. The German and UK sites have links to each other and to the Dutch and Chinese sites, but the US site is totally separate (is it run by a different company?). On all the European sites mentioned (and probably the Chinese site, though I have not explored it), wind speeds are given in a variety of units - Beaufort, km/h, m/s. mph and knots with the ability to select the units of your choice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of King, Mark D. Sent: 16 May 2007 21:31 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:38712] metric wether web sites I tried the "metric" setting on www.weather.com, and it changes everything except pressure (still listed in inches). I wrote to them, asking whether this was an oversight or by design, but have yet to receive a reply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of STANLEY DOORE Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:23 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:38707] Re: Is U.S. metrication still considered "extreme?" Many of the weather web sites have a toggle which allows you to view weather data in either English or SI. Try www.weatherbug.com and see. Note that rainfall in SI is shown in millimeters rather than centimeters. Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Millet To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:05 AM Subject: [USMA:38706] Re: Is U.S. metrication still considered "extreme?" Every doctor scale I've been weighed on uses both SI and USC. Also, the scale my vet uses to weigh our German Shephard is digital and can do both. On the weather issue, I agree that it'd take a coordinated change, but I highly doubt you'd see a resistence to it as much as you might think. I think they would have to start doing forecasts in both units and then slowly phase out Farenheit. Most banks and other digital signs display both metric and USC temps when you drive by them and when I learned them it was very helpful in school learning them in pairs (0C,32F,20C,70F etc) But it would take a concerted effort. Mike On 5/16/07, Bill Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 2007 May 16 , at 10:15 AM, STANLEY DOORE wrote: It would take the medical industry to require weighting and recording people's mass in the SI. This also would require a complete change in scales to show and record in SI units. Very expensive but doable. My doctor already has a scale that weighs in kilograms, but he doesn't. It is a digital scale that can weigh in either pounds or kilograms at the touch of a switch. His nurse weighs me in pounds (which I carefully don't look at) and when she is done, I throw the switch and get my mass in kilograms (and I tell the nurse what it is). So, for some doctors at least, recording masses in SI would not "require a complete change in scales" as Stanley suggests (above). It would just take the touch of a switch. I suspect many other doctors have similar scales. Here's where the federal government could have a significant impact. They should require by law that all scales (and other measuring instruments) should be able to measure in SI, in addition to Ye Olde English mix of units. Doctors (and others) could continue using them to measure in old units but when the time came that the national will is to go metric, it would not require any massive purchase of new instruments; it would just take the touch of a switch. Bill Hooper 73 kg body mass* Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA * plus or minus a kilogram or so. -- "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?"
