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Hi there,

how about this... driving snow/sand at +28°C?



I'm not sure, if this is an application issue... so I posted it here.

Just to be sure: you don't use a personal-weather-station with a custom xml-file from your weather-station software?

I did not understand.
What is the problem/question?

ikarus1969 wrote:Just to be sure: you don't use a personal-weather-station with a custom xml-file from your weather-station software?

No, I just switched to this town "Friedberg" (FRANKFURT MAIN A, Germany) only as an additional (not home) location.

par wrote:I did not understand.
What is the problem/question?

Well, I'm a little bit curious about driving snow at +28°C... :?

He obviously means the German translation "Schneetreiben Sand".

Ah, I see now, thanks Fred!

The problem is in a mistake in translation of "Low Drifting" string.
Please let me know how to translate "Low Drifting" in German and I will fix this small error.

Cloud, thanks for reporting!

Hm, "low drifting" means "fegend" as an adjective (take a look here) - as a fixed descriptor of an weather phenomena. So I think, there are specified rules for this kind of (german) translations.

Beyond that you can find here a german translation for different weather conditions.

Thanks!
I have replaced Low Drifting for "Fegend".
Technically we cannot make absolutely correct translations.
I hope to make them some time later.
Thank you for the very useful link.

Still one question... how does YoWindow translates complete sequences of special weather phenomenas?

Because "The weather groups shall be constructed by considering columns 1 to 5 in the table above in sequence, i.e. intensity, followed by description, followed by weather phenomena" (source), i.e.

+SHRA (INTENSITY: heavy; DESCRIPTOR: Shower(s); PRECIPITATION: Rain)
English: "heavy rain shower(s)"
German: "Starke(r) Regenschauer" (but wrong is "Stark Regen Schauer")

In case above:

a. -DRSA (INTENSITY: light; DESCRIPTOR: low Drifting; PRECIPITATION: Sand)
English: "light low drifting sand"
German: "Schwach fegender Sand" (but wrong is "Schwach Fegend Sand"), but much better is "Leichter Flugsand"

b. DRSA (INTENSITY: moderate; DESCRIPTOR: low Drifting; PRECIPITATION: Sand)
English: "low drifting sand"
German: "Fegender Sand" (but wrong is "Fegend Sand"), but much better is "Flugsand"

c. +DRSA (INTENSITY: heavy; DESCRIPTOR: low Drifting; PRECIPITATION: Sand)
English: "heavy low drifting sand"
German: "Stark fegender Sand" (but wrong is "Stark Fegend Sand"), but much better is "Starker Flugsand"

So for a german translation of all weather sequences (combinations of weather qualifier and phenomena) or conditions - you must not simply link each single german word.

Well, and I assume that's the problem.

Yes you are right, we do it in a wrong way.
I hope to solve this problem someday.