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Asha Santon[_3_] · March 2nd 20, 08:02 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

On 2020-03-02 17:50:09 +0000, said:

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I like your website but just a few more comments.

Why thank you. We nearly like it. I will deal with your points in turn.
I do not wish to appear dismissive or anything less than happy so some
lengthy explanations follow.

If you want to report Weather then Place, and Time of day would be
informative.

The time of day is always 'now'. The site is updated randomly but
regularly by someone somewhere and usually more often than the weather
changes. As for place ...

I know you are in Scotland but it is a big area.

It is and on reading your comments, I checked the 'About' page and it
does indeed just say Scotland on it.
At a convenient point thereafter, I lightly strangled the writer of
that page and it should be clarified this evening although I haven't
had time to check. Thank you for noticing - we didn't.

kmh, you mean km/h.

Umm no, we don't. Everyone we know both here and on mainland Europe
uses kmh. We did check on that and it seems there is no standard
abbreviation with several in use. Some news outlets use kph but we
don't like that.

Does anyone use km/h for speed in Scotland?

Two things there.
Aside of friends and family, almost none of our website visitors are in
Scotland and most are not in the UK.
When we were at school (cue violins) maths topics were taught in metric
(aside of bases such as hex etc). Geography topics were taught
primarily in metric with miles and stuff mentioned only in passing.

mph or knots is better.

Only if you know instinctively what they mean.
None of us are into sailing or whatever so knots are things tied in
string, not speeds :-)
Mph is meaningless to us. For road use, the speed limit is just a
number and as long as we drive under that number on the dial, no
flashing blue lights. Distances on sign posts, we mentally recalculate
so they have meaning.
For wind speeds, we have no idea what 10mph feels like until we convert
it into kmh.

Your weather category/symbol for Mainly dry is amusing.

I very much agree with you on that. It may even be silly.

What does it represent?

On our screens, it appears as a horizontal white line with something
hanging on it.
It represents washing - the sign of a mainly dry day.

To me it looks like a sheet of toilet paper.

It did to me a week or so ago. The first version of it had a shorter
white line so it was less obvious.
Perhaps the line needs to be a bit thicker - don't want it to break :-)

Thanks again - your comments are appreciated.

Asha.