Actually, I’m not sure where this belongs and I hope here is OK.
If you have a look at the FWI graph in WD in View > Fire Weather Index and again in WDL, you’ll see that the two graphs are different. The one in WD was updated about 12 months ago, I think to account for new conditions here in Oz, while that in WDL was not. With the fire season about to start again, any chance of getting the graph in WDL updated too? It looks a bit silly having two different graphs and, for the casual viewer of my website (and there are quite a few), it begs the question, which is corrct?
My guess, cyclone, is that the issue arose because of the extreme fires we had here in Oz a year or two ago that blew the existing FWI out of the water. It resulted in windy developing a new graph that was based on different class boundaries and included a new class, “extreme”. See http://discourse.weather-watch.com/p/406507. I think that windy correctly fixed things for WD. However, it would appear that these changes have not flowed through to WDL. I dunno why.
Yes, Brian. I am using the latest version – 6.07. However, your question prompted me to check a few things.
[ul][li]I did edit index.html so that it read wdlv6_07 as outlined in the notes and double-checked that it had been saved properly[/li]
[li]I went into my website and double-checked that I had copied the new index.html file across and properly overwritten the old one[/li][/ul]
I note that on my website (www.morseweather.com/wxlive.php), that it shows 6.05 down the bottom right-hand corner. Further, there are two different FWI graphs as before – nothing has changed. One of these is on the opening website screen and the other can be revealed by pressing the FWI button in the navigation panel to the left.
Sorry Brian. I did that – opened wxlive.php in Notepad and changed the relevant bit to read:
// #######################
// # Begin settings
// #######################
// # # # # # #
// # Two mandatory settings:
// # You must enter the correct URL to your WDL or MML xml settings
var pathToConfig = “wdlconfig.xml”;
// # you must set to your WDL or MML swf file name
// # (note: this name will change every time you upgrade the version)
var swfFileName = “wdlv6_07.swf”;
Now, WDL won’t load at all. However, if I reverse it back to 6_05, it works as it did before without the correct FWI graph. What have I done wrong?
Yay, I’ve got it. Despite the notes not saying this, I also had to copy wdlv6_07.swf across. Thank you Brian for your advice and prompting me to think through what I might have done wrong :D. I dunno what I’d do without you and a couple of others. Well done, bro!!!
I didn’t have a problem with the FWI in WD. As has been discussed elsewhere and in the post above, the FWI classes and their boundaries in WD were changed a year or two ago after big fires in Australia that clearly showed the then system in use to be inadequate. The problem I had arose because FWI in WD was updated, but not in WDL. WDL is now OK – actually it was OK some time ago, but I didn’t update it properly, hence the discussion above. The FWI in both WD and WDL should now agree – assuming of course that you are running the latest versions of both and have set them up properly, unlike me :oops:.
Sorry Brian, but it does depend on which graph you’re looking at. The class descriptors are different between the two graphs. Whether that matters is a moot question, but they are different all the same.
My attention being drawn now to the WD Fire Weather Index, I note that it was last updated on 16/9/11 when it should have been yesterday, 17/9/11. Could my updating WDL as discussed above caused a problem somewhere?
Cheers,
Rick
PS. I just noticed that it did update properly today, 18/9/11. Maybe it was a 1-off aberration
