Perhaps I missed it...  found current and previous conditions, but no forecast.

Jim

On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Bruce Tong wrote:

> NOAA has international forecasts...
> 
> http://weather.noaa.gov/international.html
> 
> ... but I don't know if they're available via NOAA's web services, or
> if international persons would consider them accurate.
> 
> Are there international government organizations similar to the US
> National Weather Service?
> 
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Markow <jjmar...@jasig.org> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, if it's not international-friendly, then it's not really
>> viable for Jasig...
>> 
>> -Jonathan
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Domazlicky, Eric <edomazli...@tacomacc.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This isn't a very international-friendly suggestion, but I for one would
>>> advocate using the National Digital Forecast Database Web Service:
>>> 
>>> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Of course this only covers the United States, but this seems like a viable
>>> non-commercial option.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu
>>> [mailto:bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Parker Grimes
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM
>>> To: uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org
>>> Subject: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were
>>> generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal
>>> community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with
>>> uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has
>>> gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a
>>> mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed
>>> which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it
>>> down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their
>>> terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution)
>>> to discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal
>>> community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no
>>> longer publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't
>>> quite figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Parker Grimes
>>> 
>>> Programmer Analyst Supervisor
>>> 
>>> Information Technology Department
>>> 
>>> Southern Utah University
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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