Re: Weather [was Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: evo calendar mockup]

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 16:40, Dan Winship wrote:

> The TAFs available from weather.noaa.gov are intended for aviation use,
> so they only report expected conditions (partly cloudy, snowing, etc)
> and not expected temperatures. I'm not sure if there is any site where
> you can get good freely-usable machine-parsable forecast data for any
> appreciably large chunk of the world.

Yep. But they do contain a temperature forecast, lets see.. ARGH. Okay.
European TAF's contain forecast for temperature max/min, but at least
the Boston TAF doesnt:

     KBOS 251131Z 251212 25012KT P6SM BKN140
     FM1500 24012G18KT P6SM SCT035
     FM2100 23010KT P6SM SKC

For Helsinki:

       EFHK 251026Z 251812 17007KT CAVOK PROB30
       TEMPO 0612 FEW040CB TX25/12Z TN14/01Z

The last "TX25/12Z TN14/01Z" means expected max temp is 25°C at 12:00
UTC and minimum is 14°C at 1am UTC.

But suckage, that doesnt seem to exist in american TAFs. Grr.

Well, *current* conditions we support already, that wouldnt be a big
problem, but the forecast would be great to have. sigh. Are there any
other sources of weather forecasts? Looks like weather channel has them,
but one needs to subscribe to their service..

Hmm.

Tuomas

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Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>