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| Summary image setup | |
Help with setting this up
Enter your station name here, and you can change the font/colour using the buttons
Tick this if you want the summary.gif image to appear on your WD default web page
This could be usefull if you still want the summary.gif file uploaded via FTP to your web page for others to link to, but not actualy shown on your WD default web page.
Only applies to the specified weather stations, and so you can set the main page Icon to the forecast icon provided by this weather station
Only applies to the specified weather stations, and so you can set the summary image Icon to the forecast icon provided by this weather station
Rain (or melted snow) recorded when the temperature is below this value (°C), a snow Icon will appear instead of a rain icon (however using metar update will override this)
If you have this ticked, then the weather Icon will still be visible on the summary image, with the moon or sunrise/set icon to the right of it (this makes the summary.gif file then wider at nighttime, so do not inlclude any width= and height= html commands if you are creating your own weather page)
Normaly ticked, but if you untick, then a blank area will apear where there is normaly an icon
Normaly not ticked, use this to not have the weather icon on the summary image either
Normally ticked, this will show the moon icon (current phase is displayed) on the summary image. Note, make sure you have set the lat/long correctly under view, sun/moon
This number (feet or metres, select under setup, units), shows the estimated cloud height (but clouds do not actualy have to appear at this height), and you must also enter your altitude, under setup, units (this is used in the calculation, which is based on your stations dew point). It is not the height above your station, but the height above sea level.
If you want the weather icons to be updated and match a chosen METAR you have WD downloading (see under setup, FT/Internet setup, FTP download/Metar), then tick this (use the downloaded metar to update the icon)
Normaly not ticked, this option uses some of the abreviations for weather conditions instead of the description in the METAR.
A good idea to have this ticked: the text description of the weather condtions appears on the summary image, under the icon
Not normaly ticked, with this option, the weather conditions text can still be displayed (as per previous), but the icon is determined by your stations rain record or wind strength, etc. Note, if under input daily weather, you have ticked use this image as the icon, then that icon will override all icons.
With this ticked, a separate image appears on the default WD web page next to the summary image, and shows the METAR conditions. (you can change the colour, change the background etc of this image...view the image to see these options, under view, metar image)
With this ticked, if the metar weather conditions show rain, but you have not recorded rain (for the minutes to check back for rain), then a rain icon will not be displayed). Also, conversely, if your station has recorded rain, but the Metar does not have any mention of rain, then a rain icon will be shown. This also applies to the windy, fog, haze and mist icons.
These are 2 separate simply versions of the summary image, and by ticking this, they will be FTP'd (or updated if running a server and you have unticked use weather display ftpupd.exe, under the connections setup in the ftp/internet setup) to your web site, where you can link to them, etc.
If you have ticked , use the web cam image as the icon (as long as you have selected a web cam image file, under view, web cam), then the web cam image will also be displayed on the localweather.gif and weatherbanner.gif images (and the summary image weather icon will be the web cam image if you have option ticked)
If you have ticked to use the web cam image as the icon (select the file under view, webcam), then ticking this option will show the web cam image on the main screen (great for if you have setup to create a animated web cam image, and you then select that file as the web cam file (animatedwebcam.gif)
If you have a animatedwebcam.gif as the web cam image (setup WD to produce a animated web cam image , under view, webam), then to still display the animation sequence for the webcam icon on the summary image, you need to tick this otion (note, the file size of the summary.gif file increases with this option)
If you have selected to use a web cam image as the icon, then it will only be visible during the daytime if you tick this option (daytime/night is calculated from the lat/long you have setup under view, sun moon).
With this option, you can still have the weather icon (which is either updated by your stations rain/wind or from a downloaded METAR or manualy via input dialy weather (by ticking use this image as the icon), displayed, as the web cam image will be to the right of this weather icon.
Normaly ticked, this will display a border just indside from the outside edge of the summary image
A slight gain canbe achieved and is usefull for if you have the web cam image as a icon, but the image file size is larger, but the animated summary image (for the use of the animated web cam image) will not work.
Normaly not ticked.
The current windchill number will be displayed. Note: you can also have he beaufort scale number displayed, see under setup, units
Not normaly ticked, if you enable this, you may need to adjust the font sizes
You can have a image as the background image for the summary image, and then tick to show that image (show this image)
Applies to the background image, and so it will be visible all the time (normaly ticked, but if you have the background image as a web cam image, maybe untick this option)
Tick this normaly for the background image, unless you have choosen a web cam image, which you want WD to update the summary image background image with the latest web cam image (that you have choosen as the summary image background image)
If your stations temperature is less than or equal to this temperature (°C), AND your stations humidity is greater or equal to the humidity threshold you have set (and , under setup, offsets, you can tick to set a 97% humidity reading as 100%), then the FOG icon will be displayed/choosen.
If your stations windspeed (set the threshold in knots, see under units, offsets, for the conversion formula) is above this threshold, then a windy icon will be displayed/set.
Not normaly used (i.e set at 50). If you set this to say 2 (°C), and rain (i.e snow melt) is recorded, and the current temperature is greater than this setting,then the snow melt icon is displayed, and the current conditions text will not mention any rain (and instead will show the text for dry (note, use the set names for thresholds button to set the names/descriptions for each weather condition)
Normaly set at 10 (minutes)...i.e any rain recorded in this time will result in a rain icon (the amount recorded in that time interval also fine tunes the icon (i.e light rain, rain, heavy rain, etc, as per the thresholds listed in the threshold names setup)...unless you are using the metar to update the icon and have not ticked my stations rain/wind/fog overrides the METAR.
Normaly set at 5 (minutes)...this will change the weather description to recent rain, but the icon will not update to a rain icon. Note, this is the period of time, in minutes selected, PRIOR to the minutes selected for time to check back for rain.
Normaly set at 30 (minutes)...this will change the weather description to Stopped raining, but the icon will not update to a rain icon, if any rain has been recorded in the time period allocated (minutes) from the current time, if no rain has been recorded for the above 2 thresholds.