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- U.S. Weather Atlas for Windows
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- copyright 1995, Salt Creek Software
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- The U.S. Weather Atlas provides monthly weather averages for over 100
- U.S. cities. For each city, you can display graphs of high/low tempera-
- tures, sunshine, rainfall, snowfall, humidity and sunrise/sunset times.
- Up to 3 cities can be selected on the same graph for side-by-side
- comparison.
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- Installation:
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- To automatically install the Weather Atlas on your Windows 3.1 or WIN95
- system, run the "setup.exe" program. The application files may also be
- copied and installed manually - no uncompression or other file
- manipulation is required.
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- Registration:
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- The U.S. Weather Atlas is being distributed as shareware. It may be
- freely copied, distributed, and posted on public networks provided the
- program is not altered in any way and is always accompanied by this
- text file ("uswthr.doc").
-
- If you plan to keep this software, please register with us. The
- registration fee is only $ 10.00 (U.S.). You will receive an update
- diskette containing the most recent version of the U.S. Weather Atlas,
- plus a BONUS program "World Weather Atlas for Windows" - temperatures,
- rainfall and humidity for 70 cities worldwide.
-
- To register, send a check or money order for $ 10.00 to:
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- Salt Creek Software (Internet: 71174.2436@compuserve.com
- 810 E. Division St. or, saltcrksft@aol.com )
- Lombard, IL 60148-3009
-
- Or, if you are a member of CompuServe, just GO SWREG, ID # 757. The
- folks at CompuServe will add the registration fee to your monthly
- charges and pass your address along to us.
-
-
-
-
- Following are instructions for the Weather Atlas. This information is
- also available in on-line Help:
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- Weather Graphs
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- Weather averages can be displayed for up to 3 cities at a time. To
- select a city, click the mouse on its location on the U.S. map.
- (Clicking the city again will de-select it.) Or, using the keyboard
- or mouse, select the city from the listbox under the "File | City List"
- menu. Cities are listed alphabetically by state.
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- Use the "Options" menu to select the weather element to be plotted, or
- just click its icon on the options toolbar. Supported data types are:
- Temperatures (avg high/low), Sunshine, Rainfall, Snowfall, Relative
- Humidity, and Sunrise, Sunset times.
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- Cities and graph types can be changed at any time. If 3 cities are
- already displayed, selecting a fourth will automatically scroll the list,
- removing the first city. Selecting "Options | Clear", or clicking the
- Clear icon, will erase the current graph and remove the active city list.
-
- If you would like to display just the graph, select the "View | Graph
- Only" menu. You will still be able to add cities to the graph in this
- mode, but the cities must be selected from the listbox. To return to
- the original display mode, select the "View | Map + Graph" menu.
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- Once a graph is displayed, you can write the associated monthly data to
- a text file using the "File | Write data to file" menu (not applicable
- for sunrise / sunset charts). The current display can be sent to the
- printer or copied to the Windows Clipboard at any time, using the "File"
- menu or the toolbar. To get the best printouts, put the display in
- Graph-Only mode, and resize the window to the size needed (the graph
- will scale automatically to fit the window size).
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- Monthly Maps
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- The Monthly Maps window gives you a "big picture" look at the city data
- used for the weather graphs. To pop up this window, select the monthly
- map icon from the toolbar or the "Options | Monthly Maps" menu.
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- A map of the mainland U.S. will be painted, using a different color for
- each data range. The initial data display will be for January: use the
- radio buttons to select other months and weather elements.
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- Background Information
-
- The data used to generate the weather graphs in this software were
- obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA -
- U.S. Department of Commerce). The averages are based on observations
- made over a 30 - 60 year interval... the exact interval varies with
- different cities and weather elements.
-
- The "average sunshine" option refers to the total time that sunlight
- reaches the ground, expressed as a percentage of the maximum possible
- from sunrise to sunset.
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- The "rainfall" numbers include liquid water equivalent of snow, sleet
- and hail.
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- NOAA includes hail and sleet in the "snowfall" totals.
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- "Relative humidity" is the amount of moisture in the air as a percentage
- of the maximum the air can hold at the current temperature. Warmer air
- holds more moisture than cool air, so the relative humidity is usually
- greatest in the early morning and lowest in mid-afternoon. The data
- used in this software are all afternoon readings.
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- Sunrise/set data: Sunrise and sunset times come from standard tables.
- Daylight Savings Time, which starts in early April and ends in late
- October, is accounted for in all charts. Areas which don't observe
- DST (Arizona, central Indiana, and Hawaii) will not show the usual
- "jump" in sunrise/sunset times in April and October.
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