More Randomness

For the past sev­eral years we have paid the Weather Chan­nel online for a ser­vice called Weather Gold which removes all the ads from our weather page and allows us to view a more recently updated local radar image. I’m not sure how long it has been going on, but there is a small red col­ored tem­per­a­ture in the upper left hand cor­ner of the page that never matches what our cur­rent temperature.

For the longest time it seemed like it was only a cou­ple degrees off, but more recently the gap has got­ten larger. The other day it was 64° here and the red num­ber read 12°. Out of curios­ity I placed the cur­sor over the num­ber and it turned out it is a link. I clicked on it. I was taken to a weather page for Rochester, MN. If you reload the page it changes cities. I’ve tried it four times this evening and I have made a tour of the south, Saint Peters­burg, FL, Char­lottesville, VA, Charleston, SC and Mont­gomery, AL.

On Thurs­day, after sev­eral min­utes of hunt­ing and hav­ing to cre­ate a login I man­aged to write Cus­tomer Service :

The Weather Chan­nel Inter­ac­tive Sup­port
Ticket Infor­ma­tion:
Ticket #: 1409–3170291
Date Cre­ated: 3/3/2011 2:11 PM EDT
Issue:
Issue Type:
Details: In the upper left hand corneer of my Weath­er­Gold page there is a small tem­per­a­ture read­ing that is dif­fer­ent from my home city’s temp. When click­ing on it it takes you to the weather page of a ran­dom city. Why?

I’ll keep you posted…