What i mean, where's the weather forecast that they read out on the telly and the radio.
The short forecast and the longer range one..
Surely, if someone want's to see what the forecast is. surely they don't want to go throught the intial garble to try and look for it?
There should be an initilal option rather than going through a sequence.
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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:Yeah that's the ones that they read. Would be better if it was still on their home page
Yes like it was.
You lodge onto the MetService Website to get a general impression of the weather forecast for New Zealand, before offshooting to cities provinces etc. for a real professional forecast rather than a 'Hollywoodish' one?
You must be nuts otherwize?
I think, when you click onto to a website, it should hit you in the face.
MetService Weather should have unclickable weather forecast in your face,as it was, rather than the home page it has now, epecially for emergency weather situations.
Facebook and Twiiter applications should be on a seperate page or even put in a corner.
Blogs should be on a seperate page.
Richard wrote:i cant get the 7 day rain forecast to run ,only the three daya
no, its only 24 hours
Yes, the 7 day rainfall is only working up to 1am Friday for me. Oh well, it's not always accurate anyhow!
I'm not that impressed - I'd much rather they had the short and extended forecast on the homepage and as for the regional, it's much harder to copy in the mornings to compare just how much their forecasts can change in the late morning update!
jamie wrote:for some reason their daily high for places do not match the hourly forecast high temps. Eg Hamilton has a forecast high of 22 today. However the highest temp in the hourly forecast is 21.
One reason is that the forecast maximum can occur in between the two-hourly model timesteps.
I notice a glitch with the surf forecast at the moment
-273C water temperature, 5/4 wet suit recommeded (did not know you could surf with a wet suit that thick, LOL)
Someone needs to add in a check for a glitch like that and just display --- instead maybe
also would be good to have a link at least to the graph of the forecasted swell size?
(before a graph was shown)
You mean Cooptown? I presume it's the small locality just past Little River on the highway to Akaroa. (judging from conditions shown there at the time compared to Chch and Akaroa)
I liked the website how it was. Please you big companies, stop changing your websites every so often. Its hard for me to have to relearn what is where and so forth again and again. Thank you.
yes found what I want...forecasts,3 hourly readings,wind maps(actually called rain maps) and day previous to compare too.maps I get from elsewhere ie ukonline,vanuatu,bom ecmwf etc as these are too basic.
Whenever I leave the ChCh page open in a tab (IE10), it times out after maybe 20mins. If I hit refresh it says "Whoops, can't find the page", if I hit the Back button it reloads just fine
Silly question : on the forecast with 2-hourly wind/temp/rain forecast, when at 12pm it shows a drop of rain with a value of 3.4mm, would you say it represents the rain between 10am and 12pm or between 12pm and 2pm ? Considering the 3-hourly model never covers 12pm I can't necessarily double-check against it ...
Btw any reason other than "marketing" demagogy for using such 2-hour steps ?
