Interesting reading the issue on the BBC Weather feeds...
...especially as I've recently been experimenting with them myself!
The feeds I've been using are UK ones, which don't appear to have
changed and are still working:
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/obs/world/4206.xml
and
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/4206.xml
(the latter being inaccurately named, as it's a 3 day forecast...)
Funnily enough, I've been waiting several days since signing up to
developer for messages to arrive, so I could publicise my project
(especially as neither the ideas, proposals or backstage sign up forms
on the backstage website appear to be working!).
So what I've done is take the two feeds above, mash them to bits with
Yahoo Pipes, then pump through Twitterfeed (every 3 hours for the
observations, and every 6 hours for the forecast) to Twitter @CovWeather.
BBC Weather - Twitterable Observations: Coventry
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=1d677760b8655e6bab80b62feed2395a
BBC Weather - Twitterable Forecast: Coventry
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=RHTz4ewi3hGpaqvb3nBDOQ
Both feeds are pretty much complete, and I've recently added a few extra
contractions to the Forecast feed to stop it exceeding 140 characters.
The crafty thing with both is the editing of the GUID, in order to
convince Twitterfeed that each day's forecast and each hour's
observation is not a duplicate of the previous one (the original
Observations GUID is only updated every 24 hours.
Feel free to do your own, suggest refinements to mine (with all those
regexes going on, there might be a more efficient way of doing
things...) or even request I clone the feeds to other locations :)
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