OK, this may be a silly question but I am in the process of migrating from WinXP to RH8/KDE. I really like the program WeatherBug under XWinXP (http://www.weatherbug.com) becasue it provides very quick access to dopler radar, current condtions, forcasts, advisories, etc. Is there by chance an equivalent program in the Linux World?
There's a weather applet for the GNOME panel.
There's also a CLI utility named 'weather' that telnets to a BBS-like weather service. It ships with an expect script that auto-downloads the info for a specified area. I have a cronjob that runs that script and dumps the output to a local text file that I have bookmarked. It's faster than using <http://www.weather.com/> and I don't have to view ads or worry about snoopware.
I wish the NWS made it easy to download human-readable current conditions and forecast info. I'd rather do that than rely on a commercial service to interpret the data and deliver it on their terms. I figure the collected data was paid for by my tax dollars, it shouldn't be that difficult to make it easy to get to. I should be able to Figure out what weather zone, data type, and time period I want and query a web server for something like:
http://www.nws.gov/cgi-bin/txtrpt.cgi?zone=DC001&dtype=fcast&pd=24&fmt=txt or http://www.nws.gov/cgi-bin/txtrpt.cgi?zone=DC001&dtype=currcon&fmt=txt
and dump the result to a text file for convenient reading.
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