[mythtv] Re: MythWeather

Joel Larsson mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Thu Jan 9 17:44:22 EST 2003


Looking at that NOAA site I saw that atleast for Sweden there were alot 
more stations with the 5 digit station location code than the 4 digit 
version. Perhaps a setting to choose which to use?

//Joel

Nathan Poznick wrote:

>Thus spake John:
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>>Great idea!
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>Agreed, I'm looking forward to using this!
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>It looks like the weather data comes from msnbc.com... I think it would
>be nice if it was modified to fetch the data from another, 'more
>reliable' source... say, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
>Administration).  A decoded METAR report can be fetched for a given
>station ID, from
>http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/XXXX.TXT
>where XXXX is the 4-character station code.  These reports cover both US
>and International weather stations.  For instance, 
>http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/YSSY.TXT
>gives you the weather conditions in Sydney, NSW, Australia, while
>http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLRF.TXT
>gives you the weather in Little Rock, AR, United States.
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>It would probably simplify things a bit in the retrieval of the weather
>information...
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>A tool to look up your station code is to be found at
>http://www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml
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