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The MEASURED hours behind now on the now dial — air temperature, dew point, humidity, wind and gust, hourly precipitation and station pressure at Blatchford, each hour as it was observed. Until this, the paper's measured past was the one reading each edition carried, about two a day. Read only at the file the broker announced (pipeline/sources/msc_amqp.py, pipeline/sources/swob.py).
RE-ENABLED 2026-10-21 BY AMQPS ANNOUNCEMENT. It was disabled on 2026-09-13 because its URL was ONE hourly file, 2026-08-19 21:00 UTC: a static URL cannot follow a file named by the hour, and it answered 200 on 126 polls while producing nothing — a 200 that no health check could see. The route now is the one MSC's usage policy requires: msc_amqp drains a durable queue bound to CXEC's announcements, and swob.py downloads exactly the announced files, parses them, and keeps each hour once. Values are bounded at the parser: a provider's qa_summary is a claim about its process, not about the number (CLAUDE.md), so an element is dropped when MSC flags it (qa_summary 0 or -1) AND when it is outside the range the quantity can take, whatever the flag says. Edmonton-area SWOB stations, confirmed by a GeoMet swob-stations query on 2026-08-19 (kept from the earlier record): CXEC Edmonton Blatchford (wmo 71157, msc 3012209, MSC) — the one read; CXEG Edmonton International CS (wmo 71155); CYED Edmonton Namao (wmo 71121); CYEG Edmonton International (wmo 71123, NAV CANADA); CZVL Edmonton/Villeneuve (wmo 71664). The city/airport spread is often 3-5 °C on a winter inversion night.
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Alberta mode is a guy from Edmonton commenting on the news, and the guy is a machine. One or two lines an item — what somebody who has lived here his whole life would say reading it out to his mates.
It is not the story. The headline above each comment is the real one, the source link below it goes to the real reporting, and the plain edition is one click away. He is not summarising anything and he is not a reporter; he is the guy at the shop with an opinion about it.
He swears when a sentence wants it. He is rude about council, developers, the province, the weather, the roads and the Oilers, and never about the people in the story. He holds about a dozen opinions that contradict each other and he is fine with that.
Some of it will sit wrong anyway. When it does, that is on us and we would rather hear it than not: [email protected], and we will pull the line.
Two things get no comment at all, and they are not negotiable: anyone charged or before a court, who has a trial coming and is entitled to have us stay out of it, and a suicide. Anything you need to ACT on — a tip line, an advisory, an evacuation — keeps its full text underneath the comment, because a phone number does not go behind a joke.
The plain edition is the record, and it is the default. It is one click away and it is where you should check anything before you act on it.