Weather link

It would be a neat feature to link a weather site call directly into the location/desitination page and to the headers of every page in it for a forecast, today, 3 day, 10 day, etc...
SO when people are checking out the crags, they can check what weather is forecasted or seasonal by clicking a button on the route or crag page. Can't be too hard to do- maybe the National Weather Service (www.weather.com)? Except that site has pop-ups. Blech! Can you find one without pop-ups but is linkable? Maybe wunderground.com?

Hey Tony,

This is good site for weather.

noaa.gov/wx.html

Patty : )

This is probably the kind of info you are wanting:

crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapCl…;state=CO&site=BOU

The example here is Conifer, CO.

The admin would have to input each NWS area and then post the link to the mp.com route/area description.

ie: Turkey Rock would be Westcreek:
crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapCl…;state=CO&site=BOU

Tetons would be Moose:
crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapCl…;state=WY&site=RIW

Ouray would be Ouray:
crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapCl…;state=CO&site=GJT

So on and so forth; it would take some doing to input each NWS "point forecast" site relating to each climb area, but could go along nicely with the Google map stuff.

great idea Tony ~ I always use noaa.gov too, yeah- nice if it would be all on one page but i guess that's up to the powers-that-be...(:

hey Patty - we MISSED you today, good luck on your tests this week

Every area in the database that has GPS coordinates already has a Weather link to wunderground.com/; it's on the line following Latitude and Longitude, along with links for a Topo Map and Aerial Photo.

If you know the GPS coordinates for an area that doesn't have them, post a comment to the area, so the administrator or area owner can add them.

For example, the weather link for Grand Teton National Park is wunderground.com/cgi-bin/fi…

Probably a little cold for rock climbing there right now :-)

OK, I see that now.
Can you link that into the routes pages that could go up to their next "shell" that has a forecast and topo/photo? if they don't have one. IE, the route 'Power Bulge' has not info linked- but it is on 'The Hand' which also has no info in the 'Flatirons Central,' whch also have no info... but being in 'The Flatirons' thay can carry the link inward, at least to the rock page.

Same goes for Eldo on the West Ridge- it could pull the forecast in from te next shell outward for the whole canyon. Then you could assign a text there on teh link that is named so as to describe which shell the forecast is being pulled from.

Tony Bubb wrote:OK, I see that now. Can you link that into the routes pages that could go up to their next "shell" that has a forecast and topo/photo? if they don't have one. IE, the route 'Power Bulge' has not info linked- but it is on 'The Hand' which also has no info in the 'Flatirons Central,' whch also have no info... but being in 'The Flatirons' thay can carry the link inward, at least to the rock page. Same goes for Eldo on the West Ridge- it could pull the forecast in from te next shell outward for the whole canyon. Then you could assign a text there on teh link that is named so as to describe which shell the forecast is being pulled from.

Personally, I think the current system is fine; what's needed is GPS coordinates for areas that don't have them. This will provide not only a Weather link but also Topo Map and Aerial Photo links.

Flatirons Central has GPS coordinates and a weather link, by the way; so do Flatirons North and Flatirons South.

Regardless of where you are in the database, weather info is just two clicks away, using the areas listed at the top of a route page. For any route in Eldorado, click on Eldorado Canyon State Park at the top of the page, then click on Weather. For any route in Flatirons Central, click on Central or Flatirons then click on Weather.

For that matter, you could just click on Boulder then on Weather, since the forecast will be the same.

If you can convince Andy that this feature is desirable, maybe he'll implement it. But my vote goes for more GPS coordinates, not more feature complexity.

If you know it is there, it is just two clicks away.
But if you don't know it is there because you click through the pages to get where you are going quickly like me, or start by searching for rocks or routes within an area, then it is a mile away or a search away or just not there at all in your mind.

I'm living proof that at least some people don't see it. Patty, Kirra, and Mark Nelson also seemed to have been in the dark here.