New Dashboard on the Homepage

The observant amongst you may have noticed that the dashboard (information area) on the homepage of Hebwx has been enhanced with some extra data.
Anything that you're not sure about then just post a comment on here and I'll be happy to explain it for you.

Lightning Data

There are some new features for the lightning & thunderstorm detection.
At the top right of the sub-header you'll see "Nexstorm:......." that shows if any thunderstorms are being tracked at the moment.
There's a short version of the TRAC report at the top of the Homepage and on the Lightning page, the short version of the TRAC report is again at the top of the page with the full version further down.

Weather Warning - Highland

Flash warnings of severe or extreme weather.

Valid from 1200 until 2100 BST on Wednesday 24th June.

Scattered or isolated heavy showers will develop this afternoon, mainly in the west of the area. Accumulations of 10 to 15mm are possible within 1 hour, perhaps 30mm in total as the showers will be slow moving. The showers will die out during the evening.

This warning is for Highland Region only, Eilean Siar is not currently under a warning.

Further information on these warnings are available from the Met Office.

Live Weather Outage

I've just noticed that the weather PC locked up at 05:31 this morning and I've been busy doing other things so it's taken until now before I noticed.
I'm just running a few processes before I restart everything but it should all be back up & running by 17:00.

Update: All is now well on the live weather side and normal service has been restored.
The systems will be monitored for the next 24 hours.
Sorry of any inconvenience.

Wunderground Forecast

I've added another forecast to the website, this is the forecast for Stornoway from Weather Underground. As I contribute my data to Wunderground and upload my webcam image for them to use then they have given permission for the use of their forecasts in return.

So now you can compare my own forecast to that of Wunderground, both can be found in the Forecast & Advisories area in the menu.

Forecasts now show MPH

I've updated the forecast so that they now show MPH for the wind speed instead of Knots.
I had been thinking about doing this as part of the website revamp but after Richards comment asking about having the forecast of the Printable Flyer in MPH & Knots then I decided to change.

I'm going to try & do this with the whole site but this means doing convertions as I want to keep my own records in Knots. The live weather isn't so bad as you can set your own units to be displayed (click on the "Units" button at the bottom of the screen), it's the likes of the main dashboard. I'll look into this and post on here if I find a way to change this as well.

Comments & ideas welcome.

Martin

Weather Flyer

Hebrides Weather has now introduced the Weather Flyer which contains the latest satellite image, detailed 2 day forecast for the Stornoway area and a 5 day outlook on graph format.

This Weather Flyer is designed to be printed onto an A4 sheet and can be displayed by local hotels, guesthouses and companies for the convenience of their guests and visitors.

Please let us know if you use this new facility and any feedback is welcomed.

Welcome

This is the new Hebrides Weather website blog and has been setup so that you can be kept informed about what's new on the site and what the updates are.

Regular visitors to www.hebrides-weather.co.uk or www.hebrides-photos.com/weather/ may have noticed a change in the URL and a new website.

The old site was getting too large to be tagged onto the Hebrides Photos website so it now has a new URL (www.hebwx.co.uk) and site layout.

The main work is now complete but there will be some tweaking taking place over the next few weeks. Feedback on the new site is most welcome so feel free to comment in this Blog or by using the Contact form on the website.