FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

• DATA
1. Weather alerts for the region of Slovenia?
2. Why are the available data old?
• USER INTERFACE
1. On pages I see some strange characters - for example in the name of certain Slovenian cities. Why?
2. Why is the page 'Interactive weather' empty?
3. Why is 'Interactive weather' so slow?
4. Why text and image size are sometimes disproportional?

DATA

• Weather alerts for the region of Slovenia?

  • Regularly submitted to MeteoAlarm (established under EUMETNET, the Network of European Meteorological Services) .
    On the meteo.si front page actual images of valid weather alerts from www.meteoalar.eu server are displayed. Clicking on the link opens a new tab/window with additional information. 

  • Textual weather alerts of the National Meteorological Service of Slovenia in slovenian are available at http://www.arso.gov.si .

• Why are the available data old?

  • Try to reload the page (e.g. View/Reload, the usual keyboard shortcut is Ctrl-R).

  • Try to empty/delete the cache of your browser (e.g. Edit/Preferences/.../Cache/...).

USER INTERFACE

• On pages I see some strange characters - for example in the name of certain Slovenian cities. Why?

  • Pages are encoded in UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format), which is a type of character encoding for Unicode (an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate a text expressed in most of the world's writing systems).

  • Browsers are generally able to recognize the encoding type of the page if it is constructed correctly.

    • Try to enable the automatic detection (e.g. View/Encoding/Auto-Select/Universal).

• Why is the page  'Interactive weather' empty?

  • You have to enable the use of javascript in your browser.

  • For easier navigation accepting of cookies is also recommended.

• Why is 'Interactive weather' so slow?

  • Javascript files have to be served to your computer - faster with a broader bandwidth; they have to be executed - faster with a faster computer; a larger amount of image data (e.g. model data) should also reach you from our server - same reasoning as above (after the images are loaded, the navigation should be quick enough for comfortable animation).

  • Newer versions of browsers should be slightly faster for javascript execution.

• Why text and image size are sometimes disproportional?

  • Some pages consist of elements where the text is not contained in an image and therefore the browser treats it differently (e.g temperature over the geographical map).

  • Text size can be adjusted in the browser. Default size is recommended (e.g. View/Text_Size/Medium).