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Vancouver

When you reverted you reintroduced several errors. In the settlement infobox there were several parameters that caused errors only on the preview. You added [1] and [2] as sources but both of those are dead links. They should have gone in the {{Vancouver weatherbox}} and, along with the correct external link, I added them. Also, you put that the PMO recorded until April 1945 but the data was still recorded in May. The airport was listed as starting in 1937 but the source shows 1953.

You also need a source to show that the extremes were carried over from PMO to Vancouver Airport. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 18:39, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

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Template:Hamilton, Ontario weatherbox

Number 2 and number 3 of the sources you added are not working. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 18:43, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Template:Winnipeg weatherbox

In {{Winnipeg weatherbox}} references #2, #4 and #5 are all dead links. #3 does not look like a good reference ass it's to an AWOS. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 19:04, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Template:Halifax weatherbox

I see you removed the humidity, wind chill and humidex because Shearwater is, at 8.67 km (5.39 mi), to far from the city. In that case the sun should also be removed as it was taken from Shearwater.

However, removing that information on a distance basis leads to problems with other articles. Winnipeg Airport is 8.73 km (5.42 mi) from the city, Quebec Airport is 13.68 km (8.50 mi) from the city and Calgary Airport is 9.82 km (6.10 mi) from the city. Should these be removed from the city articles as well because they are further than Shearwater.

I think a better idea would be to include the information but to indicate how far from the city the observations were. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 18:02, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

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Eureka, Nunavut

I just noticed that the last sentence of the opening paragraph at Eureka, Nunavut says "Eureka has the lowest average annual temperature and the lowest amount of precipitation of any weather station in Canada." I tried to find sources but I was only able to get one for the temperature. Do you know of anything from EC for the driest claim. I'm sure it is correct but it needs a reference. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 20:28, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. It has the "citation needed" tag but only since February so it coul stay a bit longer. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 02:04, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for all your meticulous and time consuming edits to make the climate sections better. Air.light (talk) 02:43, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

I Agree. Your edits to the climate tables must had been time–consuming if I had done it too, looking through the records for each month and year. They also show a much longer period of reference for extremes, which is good and more reliable. Thank you so much for updating the climate tables. Ssbbplayer (talk) 18:37, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

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Canadian Weatherboxes

Weatherboxes for Canadian locations should have the snow colour set to green. Akamaikai (talk) 11:45, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Absolutely not. The standard for snow colour is blue and always has been. This is true for all other weather box's internationally. The reason is to differentiate the snow from rain and precipitation colours by making snow totals blue and making precipitation and rain totals green. Blue is generally accepted as the colour for snow, and green for rain or melted precipitation. This standard is used internationally, as well as with weather radar to show depiction of rain and snow on radar. Jonathanbuffett (talk) 12:53, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Is there a source for this? I've been a weather observer since 1978 and I've never heard that the international standard is blue. I have seen white used for snow on radar and we could use this in the boxes. Snow is a type of precipitation and making it a different colour may confuse the reader. If snow is set to blue then it blends in with the precipitation days causing readability problems. So then the precipitation / rain days should also be set to green. All the rain / precipitation boxes would be better as blue. However, that causes major readability problems.

A long time standard on Wikipedia has been that cold climates, not just Canada, have green precipitation (rain and snow) to set them apart from cold temperatures.

If you want to change this then open a new thread at Template talk:Weather box. Please read through the other discussions on this subject first. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 17:17, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

I was not aware of the template talk weather box thread. Thank you for sharing!

I may also open a new thread for the issue of Canadian humidex and windchill in our weather boxes -- I don't think they should be included for various reasons.. mainly because the values are often not accurate (ie. the 0.0 values for summer months in southern Canada, which are a default and are false, as ECCC only calculates windchill if temperature is below 0.0C, and humidex if temperature is over 20.0C). The fact that these values often do not cover the entire period of record of a weather station also makes the weather boxes look strange, as maximum and minimum temperature values are often more extreme than the humidex and wind chill for years before 1953. Also, humidex and windchill is an index, not a temperature. In terms of readability, it appears misleading in a weather box, as it looks like the extreme temperatures. Perhaps I will open a discussion on that in the thread. Jonathanbuffett (talk) 00:47, 11 June 2024 (UTC)