Template talk:Climate chart

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Templates for deletion This template was considered for deletion on 2007 July 17. The result of the discussion was keep.

As of now, the template works well in the major browsers. It's informative, especially the nice curve formed by temperature bars. It also scales very well. There are some outstanding issues:

  • It's pretty large on the screen. Width can't be helped much without making numbers too small. Height could be reduced either by altering the ratios in #expr, or by reducing the default range and adding an argument to allow for more space for cold/hot places.
  • It's large in html, more than 10k. It could be reduced by well over a half if the repeating style values were moved to site css.
  • It depends on a css-compliant browser. It actually conveys useful information in text browsers, but it could be improved by changing some divs into spans. That would also require changes to site css.

Zocky | picture popups 01:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Redundant to Infobox Weather

This template is redundant to {{Infobox Weather}}. I am going to place up for TfD. Sorry,—MJCdetroit 01:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

That one is a table, this one is a chart. It's just as redundant as all infoboxes - most of the data is always in the article text anyway. Zocky | picture popups 02:21, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please give more information about the data

As well as giving a link to the data source, this sort of chart should include: (a) the date the weather data was accessed (eg. chart compiled in July 2007); (b) the date the source itself compiled the data (eg. data published in 2005); and (c) the date over which the data was averaged (data is the averages over 50 years from 1945-1995). All this is needed for the reader to make sense of the data, otherwise it is just a pretty picture. Carcharoth 23:38, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Any idea where to put those? Zocky | picture popups 16:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Down the bottom next to or in the "source" link. Imagine these charts still being used in 50 years time. There needs to be a date somewhere on the chart. Carcharoth 23:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fahrenheit & inches

Can there be a parameter specified for whether degrees are in Fahrenheit and precipitation is in inches? It would make it a lot more user friendly for Americans. --YbborTalk 23:15, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Units reversed in New Orleans

There seems to be a technical issue causing the Fahrenheit and Celsius readings to be swapped in the chart in the New Orleans article. Blackworm (talk) 22:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Differently rendered imperial conversion chart.

In the article Kingston upon Hull the lower part of the chart (conversion to imperial units) is displayed skewed to the left of the box. This tendency shows in other articles to a lesser degree. Is there a fix, please?--Harkey Lodger (talk) 18:27, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Just found out--the text in the "source" field was too long.--Harkey Lodger (talk) 18:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Decimals running together on precipitation section

When you have decimals on the precipitation chart, they run together making all number illegible. Is there a way we can keep the numbers legible without losing the decimal precision? Maybe round the numbers for display so that the literal data (usually copied from a source) isn't lost? -- Renesis (talk) 03:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] High tempratures not displayed correctly

I just put the template up on the page for Agra and the average temp. which touches 42C in May is overlapping with the text for the month... is there any way to fix it? Madhav (talk) 04:33, 9 May 2008 (UTC)