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: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Parker Grimes
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM
To: [email protected]
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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