Voting: Synoptist 2019
Dear Wetterturnier users, please send your 3 favorites of the synoptist 2019 via mail at Alexander (bibertaler) alexander-gz(at)gmx.de until the 02.02.2020. Thank you very much!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Dear Wetterturnier users, wetterturnier.de goes into the Christmas break. The next tournament will take place on January 3, 2020 (see tournament calendar). We wish you all merry Christmas and a good start (and good luck) for 2020! All best from our side, the WT team
Voting: Synoptist 2019
Dear Wetterturnier users Two days left to vote for the synoptist 2019. Alexander (bibertaler) will count the incoming votes. More information can be found in the forum: Synoptiker 2018 – Abstimmung bis 31.1.2019 All best, the WT team
Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Dear Wetterturnier Users wetterturnier.de goes into the Christmas break. The next tournament will take place on January 4, 2019 (see tournament calendar). We wish you all merry Christmas and a good start (and good luck) for 2019! All best from our side, the WT team
Live-Scoring Disabled
The live-scoring which has been implemented early this year for some parameters has been disabled again! The live-scoring was intended to bring some more excitement into the game but it seems that it was more confusing than helpful. Based on some discussions and a wide range of people being disappointed I’ve disabled this feature again. … Continue reading Live-Scoring Disabled
Zurich Live Data
The new Wetterturnier System was designed to automatically process all observations based on the new BUFR message standard. This worked like a charm before different institutes decided to restrict their data set. Among them is the DWD, but also MeteoSwiss. Thus, our hard-working and engaged Zurich tournament leaders always had to manually compute and enter … Continue reading Zurich Live Data
Internet-Explorer Fix
Dear users, some might have encountered some strange things (the cool new ranking tables and the leader board did never show up). First of all I thought it was a jQuery support problem, after getting the very same report from different people I noticed that it was my fault (or actually an Internet-Explorer fault). I … Continue reading Internet-Explorer Fix
Autosubmit Changes
For all those using “auto-submit” (script based submission of the forecasts/bets) please be aware that there have been some changes due to the changeover from http to https. If you are using the old-school wget commands, please adjust your calls (“wget —no–check–certificate “https://wetterturnier.de/…” …). If you use the small autosubmit-python package change the url in … Continue reading Autosubmit Changes
Wetterturnier runs smooth and stable
Dear users, good news: wetterturnier.de runs smooth and stable again! After dozens and dozens of hours of optimization and software development our service is running as you (and we) expect it to run, at least in large parts. We apologize for all the chaos over the past few weeks. Many thanks to all of you … Continue reading Wetterturnier runs smooth and stable
New Webcam Innsbruck
The Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN) installed a new webcam on the roof of the building. It is a foto-webcam.eu webcam, however, due to the atypical inclination the webcam will not be incorporated on foto-webcam.eu website. However, you can always access the images using the following link: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/innsbruck-uni/ Have fun!
