Site News

Sunday, July 25th, 2010: New feature: Back in time!

You can now go back in time by hours, days, weeks or months on the map. Cities that have recently been added don't have much historical data so their markers will disappear if there is no data available.

Saturday, July 24th, 2010: More new map feature: Sunrise, Sunset, Humidex, Windchill

The map can now show sunrise, sunset, humidex, windchill and air quality health index metrics.

Notes:
  • You can change the default metric on the preferences page.
  • See the FAQ for more details.
Saturday, July 24th, 2010: Radar images

Radar images from Environment Canada are now available for each city. See the link on the city navigation bar.

Friday, July 23rd, 2010: New Weather Cities

The following cities have been added:

  • Churchill Falls, NL
  • Sachs Harbour, NT
  • Chatham-Kent, ON
  • Moosonee, ON
  • Muskoka, ON
  • Norfolk, ON
  • Oshawa, ON
  • Petawawa, ON
  • Trenton, ON
Friday, July 23rd, 2010: Preferences expanded

You can now store your preferred map location and metric in the preferences. See the preferences page.

Preferences are stored as a cookie.

Friday, July 23rd, 2010: New map feature: Weather warnings/watches

The map how has an option to show where there are weather warnings or watches across the country.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010: List of cites now on its own page

The home page was getting a bit too crowded, so the list of cities has moved to its own page. http://www.weatherstats.ca/cities.html.

Additionally, on this page the list of "major cities" has been changed to "capital cities" and adjusted appropriately.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010: New FAQ

You have questions? We have answers!

A new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page has been added. See: http://www.weatherstats.ca/faq.html.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010: Relative Humidity value change

Relative Humidity values are now shown to the nearest whole number instead of to the nearest 10th where the tenth was always 0. This reflects the accuracy provided by Environment Canada.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010: Donations Accepted

This site is not free to keep running. To help defray the costs, you can send donations through our Donation Page.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010: Twitter feeds

You can now get twitter feeds for each city for:

  • Weather Forecast: @wf_city
  • Weather Conditions: @wc_city
  • Weather Warnings: @ww_city

Replace "city" with your city name. City may be abbreviated to fit within the length provided by twitter.

You can find links on the nav bar of each city.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010: Change the map display

You can now change them map display to show one of:

  • Conditions (default as before)
  • Temperature

If there are other things you want to be able to see, please send your suggestions in.

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010: New Weather Cities

The following new sites have been added:

  • Barrie, ON
  • Chilliwack, BC
  • Cranbrook, BC
  • Drummondville, QC
  • Grande Prairie, AB
  • Kapuskasing, ON
  • Lloydminster, AB
  • Meadow Lake, SK
  • Medicine Hat, AB
  • Peterborough, ON
  • Port Alberni, BC
  • Prince Albert, SK
  • Richmond Hill, ON
  • Sarnia, ON
  • St. Catharines, ON
  • Timmins, ON
  • Truro, NS
  • Vernon, BC
  • Wiarton, ON
  • Yarmouth, NS
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010: Receive your forecast by e-mail

You can now receive forecast updates (normally 3 times per day) by e-mail. See the link in the navigation on each page or send e-mail to subscribe-city-forecast@lists.weatherstats.ca (replace city with your city name).

Monday, July 19th, 2010: Humidex changes

The humidex is no longer displayed with °C following it. This is in alignment with how Environment Canada displays it.

Thursday, June 17th, 2010: Map changes

The map on the main page is now google maps version 3. New features:

  • restrictions on zoom level
  • removal of roads
  • removal of province names
  • map color is slightly faded so the icons show up
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010: New Weather Cities

The following cities have been added:

  • Brandon, MB
  • Sydney, NS
  • Summerside, PE
  • Edmundston, NB
  • Bathurst, NB
  • Gaspé, QC
  • Sept-Îles, QC
  • Rimouski, QC
  • Sherbrooke, QC
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010: User Preferences: Background Colour

You can now set the site background color in RRGGBB format at http://www.weatherstats.ca/prefs.html. Your preference is stored in a cookie.

Friday, January 1st, 2010: Charts are now clickable

All charts are now clickable. When you click a chart it will drill-down to a page specific to that chart.

Example: http://ottawa.weatherstats.ca/charts/precipitation-2months.html

Friday, January 1st, 2010: New wishlist

Thanks for taking the time to write-in. We are implementing features you are asking for. You can see all the pending requests at our wish list page http://www.weatherstats.ca/wishlist.html.

Please please let us know if there is anything you would like to see added or improved.

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The weather data, forecast and current conditions graphics are courtesy of Environment Canada.