[OT] weather info

[Alan Jackson]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:25:37 -0600
Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:

> Are there any free web services that allow you to get the weather info ?
> 
> I have people accessing to my Linux server - aha, I have the word Linux 
> here :)  - every morning to get their data and go to different places to 
> do their jobs.  The data tell them where to go to. So I think it would 
> be nice if I can show them weather information for the destination.
> 

You can take my local weather off my weather station. 8-)

Depending on where you need to get the weather, I think there are multiple
sites. I like weather underground (wunderground.com) myself. I notice that
igoogle also can supply weather forcasts - don't know eher they get their data.
The US National Weather Service puts a lot of info out on the internet - I
think they still have a telnet server.

I'm a weather nerd - I wrote code years ago to read the byte stream off my
weather station, translate it, and plot up the values and upload them to my
webpage. I also provide a feed to the weather underground every 10 minutes.

I also have a little weather applet available from my website to read the
telnet data feed and display it. It requires the Tk version of Expect, and Tcl/Tk.
But you can read the code and see how to access the weather data online.

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