New Icons?

Archive Archived Weather Display Usage Questions
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Brian

Instead of the regular icons I have a picture of snow and icicles. Yet it does not show up on the “Input Daily Weather” window.

Is this new? Are there more? Why don’t they show up?

Keith

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Keith,
Is your snow and icicles showing up on the main screen? I am getting this as well, when I click on the summary image or WD uploads to the web. The image does not show up on the web though.

On WD 9.61e.

Dave

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Keith, Is your snow and icicles showing up on the main screen? I am getting this as well, when I click on the summary image or WD uploads to the web. The image does not show up on the web though.

On WD 9.61e.

Dave

I had the same main page icon. The proper METAR icon came back after I unticked “Your stations rain/wind/fog overrides the metar” on the “Summary image on web page / weather icons setup”. WD v. 9.61e and earlier. However, when I have the “Night Fog” icon selected as actual weather, the web page displays the “Night Fog” icon and the WD main page current weather icon displays the current METAR conditions icon, night showers.

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Hi all,

The icon that you are describing sounds like the “snow melt” icon. I finally found it under “Summary Image-Icons Setup” . Then press “Set Names for Rain Thresholds”. It should be at the bottom of the page. I am having the same problem and spent hours trying to find the source of the picture.

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Andy, thanks for the information on the snow/ice icon under “Snow melt”.
I was just adjusting my setting for Snow melt and found if I had it set below 0 degrees C then the snow/ice icon would appear any time the broadcast summary was viewed or when FTP to web.

I had the same main page icon. The proper METAR icon came back after I unticked "Your stations rain/wind/fog overrides the metar" on the "Summary image on web page / weather icons setup".

This setting was unticked in the summary image setup.

I’ll see what happens during the day now.

Dave

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Me too. I had the "Threshold for snow melt (instead of rain) (

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[quote]Threshold for snow melt (instead of rain) (

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snow icon threshold is default 50oC

it means any rain and the temperature is above that threshold, then the snow melt icon will be displayed

Not needed for normal use, leave at the default of 50

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snow icon threshold is default 50oC

it means any rain and the temperature is above that threshold, then the snow melt icon will be displayed

Do you mean 50degC? Is there anywhere in the world that achieves temps of 50degC that actually gets snow?

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you are still confused
its not a snow icon threshold
there is already that threshold to adjust.
its a snow melt threshold.
I.e if there is lots of snow/ice around, and it melts and you get a rain tip, but its not rain, then there snow melt icon willl show up if the temperature is above the setting you have set

lots and lots of people get confused by this
i have added a restore to default button …

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I was just surprised that the default was 50degC. I was trying to think of anywhere in the world where you’d ever get anywhere near 50degC and still have snow around to melt. Most places that would ever get a temp near 50 aren’t the kind of place you find snow in the first place!

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you are still confused
What it means is that the temperature has to be over that setting for WD to display the snow melt icon (and say that as the conditions) when rain (i.e snow melt is recorded).
So if you dont want wd to report and show a snow melt icon, you have that setting higher than any temperature you are likely to get
i.e default is 50oC

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and it melts and you get a rain tip, but its not rain,

I still don’t understand Brian: 50

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yes
50oc means it will never work
that is the default, normal situation
chage it to say 5oc for wd to report rain as snow melt

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aaaah yes clear, to switch it off !

but searching for an exact value , it’s never get cleared: snow could be melting between 0

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you are still confused

I’m regularly confused :? so thank you for getting me back to a deconfused state :silly:

I think what confused me was that 50degC was an achievable but unusual temp to relate with snow. I think I’d probably have used 99degC because it would then have been obviously impossible and therefore must mean something else. I guess when I’ve spent as much time and effort developing some code as you have Brian, I’ll be allowed to pick my own defaults :wink: