Website Update Log
This page lists all the latest changes, additions and removals on the Hebrides Weather website.
This covers anything from a complete new page to a new piece of data added to the dashboard on the home page.
The list of updates will start from 24th June 2013 and continue from there.
Date |
Page (link) |
Update Details |
02/02/2016 |
SITE CLOSED DOWN |
Sadly, after 9 years the site has now closed.
The site is moving to Lochaber and will be restarted later in 2016 to cover the Lochaber area. |
27/02/2015 |
The North and Eastern SkyCams are now both HikVision DS-2CD2032-I IP webcams. They are giving a large and HD quality image for the static and video images. I have also been able to re-introduce the all day video for the Eastern SkyCam. |
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22/02/2015 |
I've add a new page to the site which shows the two webcams Comhairle nan Eilean Siar have on Clisham in Harris. The images are downloaded by my server every 5 minutes, cached on the server, resized and then displayed to the web page. This avoids ”Hot Linking“ directly from the CnES website. |
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19/01/2015 |
The old forecast script broke during an update so here is a new one with added features. Just mouse-over the graph or main forecast for more detail and there is a new 1 hour detailed forecast as well. Because this new script includes the hourly details, the old hourly detail page (wxfxdetail.php) has been removed. |
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13/12/2014 |
The Eastern SkyCam time lapse for the day & yesterday stopped creating & uploading so I've removed them from the page and added a 1 hour time lapse for the Eastern SkyCam which shows more detail. |
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13/12/2014 |
NOAA, who produce most of the data for the Space Weather page, updated their website recently, which meant rebuilding the page script to link to the new style NOAA website. A few things were lost and a few added, I hope you like the change. |
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12/12/2014 |
New Motherboard & processor fitted |
The motherboard and/or processor which powers the PC with all the weather software on it for this website wouldn't reboot after a power outage during the thunderstorms on the 11th Dec. So a new motherboard & processor were fitted with more capacity to handle the loads the software puts on the system these days; quad core AMD FX processor with 8Gb RAM. |
07/12/2014 |
The Nexstorm lightning map has been upgraded to a new version with an interactive map, a new graph and other nice features. The original map has been retained following a request from a user. |
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07/12/2014 |
The Risk forecast is based on the latest forecast produced by HebWX and gives a overview of more extreme or dangerous condition within the forecast. Such as high winds, sleet & snow or thunderstorms. You can find the Risk Forecast at the bottom of the Home page. |
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19/10/2014 |
Added a new page with an interactive wind map. Scroll in and out, click and hold to rotate the Earth. |
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07/09/2014 |
All time lapse videos are now in MP4 format, instead of FLV. This means they are a smaller file size and will play on most up to date browsers, including those for Android and iOS platforms. |
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07/09/2014 |
I have started to upload a 1 hour video from the Northern Skycam. This uses images captured once every 10 seconds, instead of once a minute for the normal time lapse videos. I think it shows more detail of the cloud activity. It has need restricted to the last hour because of the video size. |
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30/08/2014 |
A new page has been added for the Icelandic volcanoes with shows the notable earthquakes and the current warning status from the Icelandic Met Office. | |
21/07/2014 |
Some of the menu items have changed location to bring the more frequently used pages nearer the top of the menu. The Blog link has been removed as I don't use the Blog any more and post items on the Facebook page instead. |
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21/07/2014 |
The Meteox image at the top of the page has changed because Meteox have stopped feeding the overlay I was using for the radar & lightning. | |
21/07/2014 |
The footer text colour has been changed to white to make it easier to read. | |
15/04/2014 |
Due to a change in the Weather Underground website format, the script I used to show the Stornoway forecast from Wunderground broke. The website stat's also showed that the page wasn't accessed very often and rather than spending time working on a little used page, I decided to remove it. I have also removed the forecast comparison page because that also used the Wunderground forecast to compare against my own forecast. |
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27/02/2014 |
Added the "Yesterday" videos for the Northern and Eastern SkyCams. Sadly I have removed the Southwest Skycam image & video until I get a new camera because the last one was zapped during a thunderstorm. |
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19/10/2013 |
Southwest SkyCam time lapse video added. This will only be the "Day so far" video but I may add a "Yesterday video" later. |
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31/07/2013 |
New script added which will show a warning at the top of the main page area if the live data file is stale. | |
29/07/2013 |
New Axis 211A IP webcam installed to create the Southwest SkyCam images. | |
01/07/2013 |
This page was added at the request of visitor to assist in finding where new items can be found. | |
30/06/2013 |
Barometer last hour trend amount and 3 hour trend text added to main dashboard | |
27/06/2013 |
Stornoway Tides added to the main dashboard, covering 3 days. | |
27/06/2013 |
New Axis 211 IP webcam installed to replace the USB webcam which supplied the images for the Northern SkyCam. | |
24/06/2013 |
Main dashboard which contains all the data was updated with too many changes to list here. |