More on the weather
June 18th 2008 08:53
Just to note that I’ve downloaded Firefox 3 – it’s the day of the great download for those who may have forgotten.
So far it seems to be working very well, and it was very speedy to install. And a site that I use a lot, and which is always very slow to load, jumped to attention at considerable speed. Interesting. (Perhaps it’s had a dose of Phentermine, the weight loss diet pill!)
I wrote about cumul.us in my last post, and decided to check out the three weather sites that had given temperatures for Dunedin, NZ.
Accuweather was the first and it turns out to be quite a tidy and long-established site. The temperature for Dunedin was the most accurate of those shown back on cumul.us, and this is confirmed on the site itself. The site itself has plenty of interesting stuff, including a link to a blog on climate change. The blog has lots of graphics, is a bit technical for my limited meteorological brain, but is still interesting all the same.
I’m not entirely sure whether it’s saying there is global warming, but it was worth a visit all the same. It’s run by a meteorologist named Brett Anderson, and in the current post he has a link to an interesting article on scepticism about climate change amongst newsroom weather forecasters.
Of course, if you really want debate about climate change-cum-global warming, check out Climate Debate Daily, where both sides of the question are argued in detail in dozens of articles – most of them too technical for me to even begin to read. Nevertheless I keep the link at the top of my browser in the vain hope that one day I’ll get a chance to sit and sift through the articles.
WeatherUnderground is a very busy looking site, ads mixed in with the information in a rather cluttered way. But there was a great deal of detail about Dunedin’s weather (I note the temperature on the site itself is more accurate than it was on cumul.us), and there are endless links to explore. Somewhere to go on a rainy day, perhaps!
The Weather Channel is at the opposite end of the scale: nothing about Dunedin’s weather when you actually get there; it’s only when you click on yesterday’s or tomorrow’s weather that you get some information. Today apparently doesn’t exist.
So far it seems to be working very well, and it was very speedy to install. And a site that I use a lot, and which is always very slow to load, jumped to attention at considerable speed. Interesting. (Perhaps it’s had a dose of Phentermine, the weight loss diet pill!)
I wrote about cumul.us in my last post, and decided to check out the three weather sites that had given temperatures for Dunedin, NZ.
Accuweather was the first and it turns out to be quite a tidy and long-established site. The temperature for Dunedin was the most accurate of those shown back on cumul.us, and this is confirmed on the site itself. The site itself has plenty of interesting stuff, including a link to a blog on climate change. The blog has lots of graphics, is a bit technical for my limited meteorological brain, but is still interesting all the same.
Brett Anderson - meteorologist
Of course, if you really want debate about climate change-cum-global warming, check out Climate Debate Daily, where both sides of the question are argued in detail in dozens of articles – most of them too technical for me to even begin to read. Nevertheless I keep the link at the top of my browser in the vain hope that one day I’ll get a chance to sit and sift through the articles.
WeatherUnderground is a very busy looking site, ads mixed in with the information in a rather cluttered way. But there was a great deal of detail about Dunedin’s weather (I note the temperature on the site itself is more accurate than it was on cumul.us), and there are endless links to explore. Somewhere to go on a rainy day, perhaps!
The Weather Channel is at the opposite end of the scale: nothing about Dunedin’s weather when you actually get there; it’s only when you click on yesterday’s or tomorrow’s weather that you get some information. Today apparently doesn’t exist.
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