On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:15:59PM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > 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.
I get the forecast (such as it is) via cron like: ncftpget -t 180 -V -r 3 \ ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/city/ky/louisville.txt I think that's the 3 day. There's a 10 day somewhere I think, as well as current conditions (updated hourly only). That ftp server is sometimes busy and does not respond though. For radar I use http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/images/DS.p37cr/SI.klvx/latest.gif, and display that with xv. xv is nice because I can download updated images in the background every so many minutes, and xv will update its buffer if the file is changed at all. I don't think any other such programs will do that. Cool. -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
