[OT] weather info

[Vu Pham]

Alan Jackson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks, Alan.

Your web site is cool. I like the "intro" part that you are not "that" 
Alan Jackson.

Vu