In setting up Wunderground parameters, you have two choices for
Source for Current Conditions: PWS & Airport or Airport Only I use the latter in Internet Explorer, and the former in Firefox. While the forecasts are the same, current conditions are not. When I enter http://printer.wunderground.com/auto/printer/nd/58438.html Into Firefox, I get this: Forecast and Conditions for Fessenden, North Dakota Updated: 7:34 PM CDT on June 26, 2008 Observed at APRSWXNET Cathay ND US, Cathay, North Dakota Temperature 69 ?F / 20.6 ?C Humidity 82% Dew Point 63 ?F / 17 ?C Wind NNW at 3 mph / 4.8 km/h Pressure 29.75 in / 1007.3 hPa (Rising) Conditions Overcast Visibility 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers Clouds Scattered Clouds (SCT) : 9000 ft / 2743 m Overcast (OVC) : 11000 ft / 3352 m Yesterday's Maximum 80 ?F / 26 ?C Yesterday's Minimum 61 ?F / 16 ?C Normal high 80 ?F / 26 ?C Normal low 56 ?F / 13 ?C Record high 101 ?F / 38 ?C (1900) Record low 32 ?F / 0 ?C (1907) Yesterday's Heating Degree Days 0 Yesterday's Cooling Degree Days 6 Sunrise 05:42 AM (CDT) Sunset 09:40 PM (CDT) Moon Rise 01:03 AM (CDT) Moon Set 02:16 PM (CDT) Ok, now in Internet Explorer, we get conditions for Devil's Lake when entering the same url: Forecast and Conditions for Fessenden, North Dakota Updated: 8:15 PM CDT on June 26, 2008 Observed at Devils Lake, North Dakota Temperature 66 ?F Humidity 78% Dew Point 59 ?F Wind SW at 13 mph Pressure 29.76 in (Rising) Conditions Thunderstorm Visibility 6.0 miles Clouds Scattered Clouds (SCT) : 2800 ft Mostly Cloudy (BKN) : 7000 ft Overcast (OVC) : 9000 ft Yesterday's Maximum 80 ?F Yesterday's Minimum 61 ?F Normal high 80 ?F Normal low 56 ?F Record high 101 ?F (1900) Record low 32 ?F (1907) Yesterday's Heating Degree Days 0 Yesterday's Cooling Degree Days 6 Sunrise 05:42 AM (CDT) Sunset 09:40 PM (CDT) Moon Rise 01:03 AM (CDT) Moon Set 02:16 PM (CDT) So given how one has their parameters set in a given browser, they will see varying info -- and I haven't mentioned things like Centigrade temps rather than U.S. style or kilometers for wind speed rather than mph. And someone, if they wished to devote the time to this, could get weather for literally thousands of places around the globe. Wunderground has developed a hidden powerful tool with this which, if the user figures out the coding, can be used very flexibly. Note that the state code, ND, is part of that url; and one could substitute a city name for the zip code. Incidentally, compound city names, like Fort Wayne, would be written fort_wayne. . or ft_wayne. Hope that this helps a bit. Mike On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Aaron Smith wrote: > Mike Pietruk wrote: > > Now, what we would need to know next from whoever at GWMicro wrote this > > script is this: > > are Wunderground parameters set by the script or how they happen to be on > > your pc? > > That would be me. WoN parses the HTML page that comes back when entering a > location. In that HTML, there's a link to the XML source for the weather > conditions of that location. Using the Windows WinHTTP object, I download that > XML, parse the condition information, and present that (either by speaking it, > or displaying it in a dialog, depending on which command you choose). No > special parameters are passed when retrieving the initial HTML, so whatever > the defaults WU uses are what I get back. If there's some way to designate how > the search results should return, I can investigate passing those along with > the location, and perhaps that would return a different result. > > Aaron > > -- > To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past > correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information > pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW > Micro Technical Support Team. > > Aaron Smith > GW Micro > Phone: 260/489-3671 > Fax: 260/489-2608 > WWW: http://www.gwmicro.com > FTP: ftp://ftp.gwmicro.com > Technical Support & Web Development > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
