My web site has now been updated with the monthly data for the whole of
2004, and updated averages / extremes for 1992-2004 inclusive. (as well as
some nice pictures!)

Graham

Penzance Weather www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html
Holiday Cottage www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk

Graham

Looking at your annual mean temperatures, it shows a very definite rise in
temperature since 1992. Much more distinguishable than my own readings which
are far more 'up & down'.

Due to the high influence of the surrounding sea & ocean at your site, I
would say that this is a very good indicator on how much it has warmed in
our part of the world over the last decade or so.

Quite remarkable really.
_______________________________
Nick

Worcester
45 AMSL

"Nick G" wrote in message
...
Graham

Looking at your annual mean temperatures, it shows a very definite rise in
temperature since 1992. Much more distinguishable than my own readings
which are far more 'up & down'.

Due to the high influence of the surrounding sea & ocean at your site, I
would say that this is a very good indicator on how much it has warmed in
our part of the world over the last decade or so.

Quite remarkable really.
_______________________________
Nick

Worcester
45 AMSL

Nick,

The warming has been quite remarkable over the last 20 years.

Penzance Average Annual Temperature
1961 - 1990 11.1
1971 - 2000 11.3

7 years 1991 - 1997 11.5
7 years 1998 - 2004 12.1!

Since 1990, the only year with an average annual temperature below the
1961-90 norm was 1996, and that was 11.0 (just 0.1 below the norm)

I think you're right about the effect of the increase in sea temperature.
It's currently still almost 12 degrees off west Cornwall.

Back in the 60's I am sure a NW like the one over Xmas would have given snow
showers here. We've not had snow (to settle) on a NW for 15 years, it has
to be real continental air these days.

Graham

"Graham Easterling" wrote in
message ...
My web site has now been updated with the monthly data for the whole of
2004, and updated averages / extremes for 1992-2004 inclusive. (as well as
some nice pictures!)

Graham

Penzance Weather www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html
Holiday Cottage www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk



What an excellent weather website Graham:-) The pictures are great and
download really quickly and I am on dial up.
This site also shows just how nice Cornwall is. I am not surprised the
place is now so popular.

Gavin.

Gavin Staples wrote:


"Graham Easterling" wrote in
message ...
My web site has now been updated with the monthly data for the whole of
2004, and updated averages / extremes for 1992-2004 inclusive. (as well
as some nice pictures!)

Graham

Penzance Weather www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html
Holiday Cottage www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk



What an excellent weather website Graham:-) The pictures are great and
download really quickly and I am on dial up.
This site also shows just how nice Cornwall is. I am not surprised the
place is now so popular.

Gavin.

Graham,

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with Gavin. The text on the weather page is
overprinted and looks a bit of a mess. I've tried to check the page at
http://validator.w3.org/ and got the following messages:

"I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the
valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is
impossible to reliably validate the document. I'm falling back to the
"UTF-8" encoding and will attempt to perform the validation, but this is
likely to fail for all non-trivial documents."

"Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on lines 77, 128 it
contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other
words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character
Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character
encoding indication."

Your home page also displays badly and the above error message applied for
lines - 132, 139, 170, 177, 235.

The W3C site should give you some idea as to how to fix these problems.

Good luck,

Graham

Graham P Davis wrote:
Gavin Staples wrote:


"Graham Easterling" wrote in
message ...

My web site has now been updated with the monthly data for the whole of
2004, and updated averages / extremes for 1992-2004 inclusive. (as well
as some nice pictures!)

Graham

Penzance Weather www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html
Holiday Cottage www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk



What an excellent weather website Graham:-) The pictures are great and
download really quickly and I am on dial up.
This site also shows just how nice Cornwall is. I am not surprised the
place is now so popular.

Gavin.


Graham,

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with Gavin. The text on the weather page is
overprinted and looks a bit of a mess. I've tried to check the page at
http://validator.w3.org/ and got the following messages:

snip

Graham (E)
Much of the above is caused by your code generator (Serif) ...
There is no document definition (so a validator has to guess) and only a
partial 'content-type'.
Several nesting errors are reported on validation.

You have used a raw ampersand "&" in the description and this is not
allowed ... but you can use "&" which encodes the ampersand
correctly (quotes excluded in both cases).

Hope that helps ... teaching granny etc. not intended (-:

--
Gianna
www.buchan-meteo.org.uk

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
Gavin Staples wrote:


What an excellent weather website Graham:-) The pictures are great and
download really quickly and I am on dial up.
This site also shows just how nice Cornwall is. I am not surprised
the
place is now so popular.

Gavin.

Graham,

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with Gavin. The text on the weather page
is
overprinted and looks a bit of a mess. I've tried to check the page at
http://validator.w3.org/ and got the following messages:

"I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the
valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is
impossible to reliably validate the document. I'm falling back to the
"UTF-8" encoding and will attempt to perform the validation, but this is
likely to fail for all non-trivial documents."

"Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on lines 77, 128 it
contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other
words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character
Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character
encoding indication."

Your home page also displays badly and the above error message applied for
lines - 132, 139, 170, 177, 235.

The W3C site should give you some idea as to how to fix these problems.

Good luck,

Graham



What Browser/Version are you using?

I've checked the site with from various PCs with various browers and it
looks fine. This is the first problem I've had reported over several years,
and I've had many emails from people about the site. I fully accept that
much of the code is generated by Serif, which is technically imperfect, but
I don't spend time correcting the code unless there is a real problem, on
the basis if it is not broken don't fix it (and I don't have that much
time!)

Serif does a great job of getting the photo compression just right, so as
Gavin says, the page loads quickly. (my pet hate are sites with 100kb
pictures when 15kb would be fine)

Certainly my cottage web site, also largely generated by Serif, gets 100-200
hits a week, and no problems reported to date (except for the odd
mis-spelling!)

Graham

Graham P Davis wrote:

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with Gavin. The text on the weather page is
overprinted and looks a bit of a mess. I've tried to check the page at
http://validator.w3.org/ and got the following messages:

I have this argument at least once a month with someone in our office
(in a Computing Lab at a University). My argument goes: so long as it
looks fine and "works", does validation really matter?; he says:
validation is really important and should never be ignored.

I try to make sure that my pages validate (see them below) but quite
often forget to revalidate them again after making changes (of which
there have been quite a few recently). Doesn't mean the site's bad though!

Graham E: I like your pictures - Cornwall is still on my list of places
to visit in Britain, but I will make a point of visiting sooner rather
than later.

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.jstott.netsender.co.uk/

"Gianna Stefani" wrote in message
...
Graham P Davis wrote:
Gavin Staples wrote:


"Graham Easterling" wrote in
message ...

My web site has now been updated with the monthly data for the whole of
2004, and updated averages / extremes for 1992-2004 inclusive. (as well
as some nice pictures!)

Graham

Penzance Weather www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html
Holiday Cottage www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk



What an excellent weather website Graham:-) The pictures are great and
download really quickly and I am on dial up.
This site also shows just how nice Cornwall is. I am not surprised
the
place is now so popular.

Gavin.


Graham,

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with Gavin. The text on the weather
page is
overprinted and looks a bit of a mess. I've tried to check the page at
http://validator.w3.org/ and got the following messages:

snip

Graham (E)
Much of the above is caused by your code generator (Serif) ...
There is no document definition (so a validator has to guess) and only a
partial 'content-type'.
Several nesting errors are reported on validation.

You have used a raw ampersand "&" in the description and this is not
allowed ... but you can use "&" which encodes the ampersand
correctly (quotes excluded in both cases).

Hope that helps ... teaching granny etc. not intended (-:


I prefer to use Dreamweaver for the Yorkshire weather, unfortunately it
isn't DW-MX but it serves my purpose and does what I want it to do.... And
it produces clean html, at least it says it does! :-)

And I don't have to learn a lot of the code either!!!

--
Rob Overfield
http://www.astrosport02.karoo.net/YorkshireWeather/

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:11:03 -0000, Graham Easterling wrote:

I don't spend time correcting the code unless there is a real
problem, on the basis if it is not broken don't fix it (and I don't
have that much time!)

You have mail, with a couple of screen captures. I can appreciate that
fixing code is a PITA but then it may well be costing you customers...
If I was looking for a Holiday Cottage I'd see that homepage and go
elsewhere. I didn't capture the bookings page thats seriously
unpretty. B-)

OK I use an "obscure" OS and oldish browser (Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U;
Warp 3; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031014) but 99% of sites render
perfectly.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail