My mistake. There may not be forecasts. I noticed some international
content and assumed it might extended to the web services.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Jim Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
>>> 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: [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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