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Happy New Year 2008

By Henry • Jan 1st, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

CheckWX has some great new features planned for 2008!



Database Corruption

By Henry • Dec 20th, 2007 • Category: Issues

We have identified the issue which was causing the database corruption.  Apparently our auto-increment field was not large enough to handle the volume of records which were being processed on a daily basis.



Why Do We Display Google Ads?

By Henry • Dec 1st, 2007 • Category: Information

Google Ads, you either love them or hate them. We decided to implement Google ads to defray costs of running this site. We have a yearly cost to register our domain names, a monthly cost for web hosting, and miscellaneous costs for software tools used to create our site. We have […]



CheckWX.com Version 2.0

By Henry • Nov 30th, 2007 • Category: News

Today we officially launched our revamped website.  Thanks to your input we have implemented the following:

Moved to a new web host with improved server response times.
Added tabbed interfaces to our weather station layout.
Updated our weather trends and statistical graphs.
Removed the default IFR map on the home page to speed up the load time.
Added sunrise/sunset information […]



CheckWX.com Version 1.0

By Henry • Oct 1st, 2007 • Category: News

CheckWX.com launched today with beta version 1.0.
We are a NOAA aviation weather/Google map mash-up of METARs, TAFs, and PIREPs.
This site will be completely free and will never change any fees to view our weather data!