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Temperature measurements for Fort Saskatchewan area
Posted By Walter Schneider On September 30, 2010 @ 10:57 am In Town of Bruderheim, Weather | 5 Comments
The following message was sent today to the Fort Air Partnership (and a pertinent portion of it to The Weather Network):
Hello Fort Air Partnership,
Just now I came back to your website to look for the current conditions in Bruderheim, after I had been trying in vain to find them before on some of your web pages.
Some of the problems I encountered some time ago still persist. It appears that your website does not cater very well to the FireFox web browser. A substantial portion of Internet users employs FireFox. You should have your web-designer address that.
It has been a while since the Bruderheim monitoring site had been set up. You should have your web designer add a menu option for Bruderheim (Site #49) on the following web pages:
The addition of something like the following line is required in your source code for the station list:
<a href=“airquality_data.asp”>Site 49: Bruderheim</a><br>
A suggestion for your relationship with The Weather Network
The Weather Network derives its current temperature values for [4] Bruderheim, [5] Lamont, [6] Chipman and [7] Saint Michael from the weather station at Elk Island National Park.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to inform the Weather Network of the fact that a temperature display for Bruderheim should more appropriately be derived from local measurements that are being taken at your site #49 in Bruderheim.
Something similar should be done for [8] Fort Saskatchewan. Surely you can do better in cooperation with the Weather Network.
The current temperature values that are being displayed by The Weather Network for Fort Saskatchewan are being measured at Oliver. Could one consider that to be more than a bit odd, perhaps in need of a cure? (See Note to the uninitiated)
The suggested improvements would increase the credibility of the Weather Network, while at the same time they could elevate the visibility of your website.
Regards,
Walter Schneider
[9] http://folc.ca
Cc: Some Bruderheim, Lamont and Saint Michael residents; Lamont Leader; The Weather Network
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Note to the uninitiated: Although the weather station at Oliver is located within the boundaries of the City of Edmonton, it is located on the site of an agricultural research facility, quite some distance removed from the city of Fort Saskatchewan. The closest neighbour to the agricultural research facility is a mental health hospital just across the road from the agricultural research facility.
5 Comments To "Temperature measurements for Fort Saskatchewan area"
#1 Comment By Walter Schneider On October 4, 2010 @ October 4, 2010
The temperature for Bruderheim shown on the home page for [10] the new website of the Town of Bruderheim is not being measured in Bruderheim. It is being measured in and reported from the weather station in Elk Island National Park.
#2 Comment By Walter Schneider On October 5, 2010 @ October 5, 2010
To repeat, the Weather Network’s temperature values displayed for Bruderheim, Lamont, Chipman and Saint Michael are all for measurements that are being taken at Elk Island National Park, while the temperature values displayed for Fort Saskatchewan are for measurements taken at the Agricultural Research Facility at Oliver, in Edmonton.
If you think that is bad, what about Tofield temperatures? The Weather Network gets those in Mundare!
All of that makes some sense, although it does nothing for the credibility of The Weather Network. Does any of that matter? The Weather Network is happy with being pretty sure instead of being accurate. It works. Most people are happy to take The Weather Network at face value. It’s appearances that count and make people happy. To heck with the truth and accuracy, right?
#3 Comment By Walter Schneider On October 6, 2010 @ October 6, 2010
To round out the picture of deliberate and permanent Weather Network inaccuracies for the County of Lamont and nearby locations, the temperatures displayed for Willingdon are being measured in Mundare, and those for Hilliard and Wostok are not being shown. According to The Weather Network, the latter two locations do not exist.
All of that may seem a little trivial, but just for the record, the real temperature measured in downtown Bruderheim is presently 10.2°C (measured at 6 a.m. in my backyard) while The Weather Network shows 7°C (measured in Elk Island National Park).
[11] The Fort Air Partnership monitoring station behind the Night Moves Pup (click on site #49), meanwhile shows 10.2C (measured at 6 a.m.).
All of that makes me wonder how and why the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change tries to make us worry about global average temperatures at the tenth and the hundredth degree of accuracy, while there are such widely different temperature values shown for Bruderheim.
#4 Comment By Walter Schneider On October 6, 2010 @ October 6, 2010
Temperature displays for Bruderheim at 12:51pm
[12] http://bruderheim.ca 23°C (measured at Elk Island National Park at 12pm)
[13] http://www.fortair.org/airquality_data.asp 18.5°C (measured at Fort Air Partnership site #49 at 11:00am)
Our backyard: 20.1°C (measured at 12:51pm)
#5 Comment By Walter Schneider On October 21, 2010 @ October 21, 2010
Differences in weather reporting as of 10:47 am.
Right now in our backyard, in the shade, it is 4.8°C. (Current)
At [14] South Fort Estates it is 5°C. (Current)
At [15] Sherwood Park it is 8.7°C. (Current)
At the [16] Air Monitoring Station behind Night Moves it is 0.6°C. (Measured at 9:00 am and shown for the current time)
At [17] Elk Island National Park it is -2°C. (Measured at 8:36 am and shown by the Weather Network for Bruderheim and the current time)
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URLs in this post:
[1] http://www.fortair.org/historical_data.php: http://www.fortair.org/historical_data.php
[2] http://www.fortair.org/historical_data.php#Anchor-49575: http://www.fortair.org/historical_data.php#Anchor-49575
[3] http://www.fortair.org/historical_data.php#Anchor-47857: http://www.fortair.org/historical_data.php#Anchor-47857
[4] Bruderheim: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caab0045?ref=wxeyecitypagev4
[5] Lamont: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caab0188?ref=topnav_weather_savedcity
[6] Chipman: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caab0067
[7] Saint Michael: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caab0285
[8] Fort Saskatchewan: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caab0125
[9] http://folc.ca: http://folc.ca/
[10] the new website of the Town of Bruderheim: http://bruderheim.ca
[11] The Fort Air Partnership monitoring station behind the Night Moves Pup: http://www.fortair.org/airquality_data.asp
[12] http://bruderheim.ca: http://bruderheim.ca
[13] http://www.fortair.org/airquality_data.asp: http://www.fortair.org/airquality_data.asp
[14] South Fort Estates: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=53.681%2C-113.222
[15] Sherwood Park: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=53.681%2C-113.222
[16] Air Monitoring Station behind Night Moves: http://www.fortair.org/airquality_data.asp#
[17] Elk Island National Park: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caab0045?ref=wxeyecitypagev4
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