On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 10:30:08 PM UTC-8, gjr80 wrote: > > I am sorry, I did not see this post with the flurry of activity on the > 14th. > > I appreciate the limitations of the Zambretti forecast, but I prefer it to > 'forecast not available'. I am not sure exactly what you mean by 'include > webpage code that will display a professional forecast obtained via the > Forecast extension or other means', when I said I would have a chat with > Matthew I should have said that was in regards to getting the forecast > extension to make available forecast text other than the Zambretti text. I > am loathed to try to include other (internet based) lookups in rtgd, it > already runs in its own thread generating output potentially every 2.5 > seconds. Pullling data from the internet or caching internet content is > added time (through timeouts etc)/complexity that I don't think is > warranted if we can get suitable info out of the forecast extension. > > Gary >
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I didn't mean to suggest that you should include a better forecast in rtgd, but instead that if rtgd users want to display a forecast along with current conditions they can include a better forecast in their webpages by some means outside of rtgd (php include, HTML Server Side Include, widget on a WordPress page, HTML link to a forecast page, or whatever). Current conditions and forecasts are, of course, much different. Current conditions are facts, whereas forecasts are guesses about the future. Regardless of whether a forecast is based on rolling dice, the "educated guess" of a meteorologist, the output of a trained artificial neural net, an evolutionary algorithm, or other artificial intelligence engine of some kind, they are guesses that shouldn't be entangled with or mentally-confused with facts. If guesses are going to be displayed along with facts, because they are far less accurate and potentially even grossly wrong, they should come after facts with clear demarcation and identification. Where Zambretti forecasts are only marginally better than rolling dice, why degrade a page displaying facts by including them at the top? Of course, rtgd users can easily disable or hide Zambretti forecasts if they don't want to display them, but why even bother to include them where they are not accurate and have nothing to do with current conditions displayed by the gauges? Bob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
