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I think the Weather section of Wikinews is really interesting. What kinds of content will it have? Ideas:

Samrolken 12:36, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I’ve asked user B-101 on his user talk page for a source for his contribution about the results of an increase in temperature.

Any scientific claim should have a citation to back it up.

— DV 16:38, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Hey, would anyone object to breaking the asian weahter section up a bit? Its just such a huge freaking place. I mean the weather in indonesia, is not in the least related to the Weather in Turkmenistan. The other question is how? Centeral, south, and south-east? The bellman 02:12, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It seems silly to have two seperate maps for Fah. and Cel. since Fah. is only used in the US… why not just have seperate maps for each continent, and have the US one be in Fahrenheit?

I’m almost ready to post a map of world surface conditions.

It’s generated by an Adobe Illustrator CS document using data-driven graphics that are fed by an XML dataset.

Once the first version is ready, I will supply the source files by e-mail to anyone who wants them – they’re about 40MB uncompressed, so I’m not sure if I should post such large files in the Commons.

I plan to provide two links underneath the map for temperatures – one for degrees Fahrenheit and the other for degrees Celsius.

I’m still working on scraping the temperatures automatically from the web, but editing the XML dataset is very fast. There are 55 cities, and they can be updated in under five minutes using the following links:

BBC Weather World

The Weather Channel

What makes this map interesting is that it simultaneously presents temperatures of 55 of the world’s major cities.

I am still working on adding symbols for Sunny, Cloudy, Raining, and Snowing. — DV 05:25, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Russia:

Canada:

Greenland:

Argentina:

New Zealand:

Iceland:

Antarctica: (let’s see if you want to add it first!)

Earl Andrew 19:01, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Good Idea!

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It seems unnecessary for a wiki to be used to update current weather conditions — there are plenty of accurate weather info feeds available. I suggest that the Weather section stick to actual news about weather (i.e. articles on aftermath of hurricanes, etc.). — Anonymous

Anyone object to just getting rid of weather altogether? Unless of course, Wikimedia is planning to invest in radar equipment. Lyellin 05:13, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Many thanks to the people/person who brought us this, because it is freaking awesome. Just a question; some of the choices fo cities are a bit odd (eg recife in brasil, but not salvador and manuas), how were the cities chosen, how difficult is it to add new ones, and at what point does adding more cities make it look too crowded? thoughts? The bellman 13:18, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

No city even close to mine is shone on the weather map, how can I add it?

I notice that London no-longer has a temperature. This means that the map is useless for resisdents of Great Britain and Ireland, as being islands, our weather is significantly different to the continent’s. Dan100 (Talk) 21:16, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ditto that, we need at least London, as this is an English-language site, and many contributors are from the UK. With notoriously variable condition compared to Western Europe, a temp reading would be appreciated. Can it be done? –81.156.220.251 19:39, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Why UTC time for all continent maps? Means nothing for me – what does it mean? Perhaps GMT or +/- an hour or so would be more appropriate for Europe, and other relevant timezones for the submaps. Either that or a select number of timezones on all maps. Or even, is there a need for the time to be shown, especially if the weather is to be ‘current’? Everyone with a PC has a clock somewhere on their destop (presumably). Cheers, –81.157.24.242 22:24, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It would be very awesome if the weather map reflected which parts of the day were light and day at the time when it was last refreshed. Like one of those geochronometer] doo-hickeys, just have it do a transparency overlay (I have no idea what that would entail or if it would be at all possible). Just a thought, but it looks pretty awesome as is, though! –Fastfission 07:33, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Are there any plans for an East Asian or South Asian weather map? — Ran 05:37, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

<chuckle> In about 8 weeks, wanna start doing an in-depth image of the weather reports from Cape Scott to Trial Island? I’m sure you can pull up each of the weather buoys through the meteo, so I can know what the wind and temps are at each anchorage and harbour on my trip (where I can get internet), right? Since many of these also to sea state, could we add a color-coding for waves? maybe color gradient from blue to red in .5m increments?

(in case I was not obvious enough, this is a joke) And THANK YOU!!! for all your (and Ilya’s) work in getting and maintaining this very complex weather reporting system! Love the bots… – Amgine 06:01, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Dear weather graphic designer(s). Looks excellent. One recommendation though — temperature scale interval / coloured graphics at 15oC or 20oC intervals. (<– comment from anon IP?)

I was thinking the standard temperature colours… eg

159753 11:14, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Commons:User:WeatherBot is in danger of being blocked. See Commons:Village pump#WeatherBot : NOT the right way. I thought some Wikinews people might want to participate in that discussion. Dbenbenn 14:37, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Would it at all be possible to have the actual major cities in Canada represented? Currently there are only three shown and the national capital is missing. I would be more than happy to provide you with theirn names and approximate locations (by way of editing the .ai file).

68.149.167.146, I am afraid such an addition could lead to cities overlapping each other.–207.200.116.136 14:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC) Oh! Before I forget,You can check The North Amreican Map.

The latest map is dated on Septempber 19. Any trouble happened?–Aphaia 07:20, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

I added the weather maps. Does anyone else think this is a good idea? —SVTCobra 21:12, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Noticed that the lowest temperature seen on the maps is 0C/32F (freezing point), especially on the far north locations. Is there a bug in displaying sub-freezing temperatures? DL+1613 02:05, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

And why can’t he tell you the current weather, humidity, or wind–Ipatrol (talk) 19:03, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

It appears to me that the weather page is predominantly current observations (is it updated hourly?) from chosen sites around the world. I seem to recall, back before I got my account, that there was some cross-talk of putting up actual forecasts, but I didn’t see that go anywhere. What was the final call on that, if anything? –CyberStormAlpha (talk) 09:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

ie Anyone thought a real weather center and using weather.gov weather & NOAA etc. for cities for the world. iMap Weather has a free affiliate program… Any thoughts?