We have added a 24-hour webcam history slide show to the Weather History page. This is the same Northern Michigan University webcam atop Marquette Mountain we link to on the home page. Pressing the play button will result in 24 slides being shown — one slide per hour. You can also configure it to play a monthly or yearly slideshow. You can even playback the entire history of the webcam dating back to February 2014. The player software is courtesy of Windy.com who also supplies the interactive radar on the Maps page.
One more thing…
After yesterday’s torrential thunderstorm, we have made the rainfall rate a permanent feature in the current conditions section of the home (CITY) page during the rainy season. Previously, it would only appear in the bottom left of this section once the rain rate was above 0.00″ / hour. The problem with that is we have many visitors who hang out on the page for long periods. It only refreshes every 10 minutes. So they would not know it started raining or know how hard it is raining unless they manually refreshed the page. Once the field is visible, it automatically refreshes once per minute (or however often you have settings configured to auto update conditions — once per 30 seconds is the max refresh rate for rainfall rate). In any event, it can take a couple minutes for the weather station to register that rain is falling. The software waits a bit to prevent false alarms such as wind gusts which can also tip the internal rain spoon.