Release: Local Risk Assessment

Another donation-funded development, the Local Risk Assessment is a table that results from a parsing of your WX-SIM forecast and lets local and worldwide web surfers visiting your site to see if inclement weather is on the horizons at your location, based on webmaster configurations. More information is available at: http://www.wiscwx.com/jordan/wsrsk/index.html

Testing is requested from all climates! It is difficult for me to pinpoint errors with only winter weather in the forecast. Suggestions are encouraged.

Jordan Gerth

Jordan,

I thought I’d try this out and I must have something wrong. I’m getting the entire plaintext.txt in the footer as seen at the link below. Perhaps you can steer me right. It’s also affecting the header of the horizontal version as well as the footer in the vertical one.

Thanks. - Jim

http://jcweather.us/wxsim.php

I have it working here http://www.shermanctweather.com/forecast.php but it seems to repeat the warning.

Jim,

I have the same problem, my solution for now was to put it on a different page, http://www.branfordfire.com/weather/wx4.php as I thought maybe “wsofd” was interfering? But now I see weatherbee figured it out somehow! :smiley:

Jack

All I did was follow the instructions. There is one difference from the forecast instructions in that you only put wsrsk.php where you want it to show. It is not needed in a require statement before the html like wsofd.php did in the forecast version.

1.04 has been released. Hopefully this fixes some of the issues you are having. Let me know.

Jordan

Thanks, This have eliminated the double line.

Jordan,

Fixed me up too, thanks for the quick response. I’m not sure I’ll use this where I have it, but I think a contribution is in order regardless. I kind of have a craving for a steak sandwich from the Brathaus myself. - Jim

Hello all!
I changed to the new release 1.04 and got the same problems as you have before… can’t understand whats wrong.
See http://www.sm6kiw.se/weather/wxsim/risk.php

Maybe some have any solution to not get all text in the end?

//Bo

Bo,

That’s exactly what 1.04 fixed for me. Perhaps download again and make sure you didn’t get a cached version or something? - Jim

Hello again.
Just downloaded and changed files, but still the same problem…

Guess we’ll have to wait for Jordan to stop by which I’m sure he’ll do today. - Jim

Indeed! 1.05 has been released to fix this issue; sorry, folks, about the issues. In any case, we have a nice snow going in Madison so the day is good!

Jordan

:smiley: Now it’s working !
Thanks a lot!
//Bo

Mine was working OK with 1.04 :D, but as I usually update anyway when new versions become available, do I have to update both the wsrsk and the rskcfg php files to get to 1.05…

No, wsrsk.php only.

Jordan

I’m not too sure whether other users would agree, but would it be possible to have, a main thin boundary frame around the outside of the graphic outputs. At the moment, unless the webpage has a background colour (or image), the graphics edges become un-delineated with the background white. ie see my webpage at http://www.elginweather.co.uk/jordan/fcst.php where it is particularly noticeable on the “threat graphic”. OR is there an easy way to change the background colour of the whole php page? I’m afraid my feeble efforts have failed so far on that front!

Thanks for the info on 1.05 update,

The color of that area can be changed to grey if you prefer. See the configuration file.

Jordan

My wxsim forecast is:
Dense overcast. A chance of snow. Low 23, but temperatures rising after midnight. Wind south-southeast around 4 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent. Precipitation (liquid equivalent) mostly around a tenth of an inch. Snow accumulation about an inch.

The wxsim forecast script shows .1 in, which I’d think should say, 1".

The NWS has issued …WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY…

But the script shows, no hazards.

This is a test page to see if I want to use the script. It is at
http://www.nhpaweather.com/wxfrmtht.php
Also, as of now I haven’t loaded the image files for this script. The server seems to be down at the moment.

Dave

Did you configure rskcfg.php to show a significant snow hazard for one inch? A hazard will not be shown for a National Weather Service warning or advisory.

Jordan