On Tuesday 03 March 2009 09:29:10 James Frysinger wrote:
> You might start with your local National Weather Service Forecast
> Office. Third party websites should be approached separately. I am not
> familiar with any "weather -f" command.
I ran Wireshark while running "weather -f" ("-f" means forecast; without the
option it displays current weather) and captured the following conversation:
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GET /pub/data/forecasts/city/nc/raleigh_durham.txt HTTP/1.0
Host: weather.noaa.gov
User-Agent: Python-urllib/1.17
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:52:15 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Last-Modified: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:52:22 GMT
ETag: "13f7c12-14a-46439c2441d80"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 330
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
FPUS42 KRAH 031648
City Forecast for Raleigh Durham, NC
Issued Tuesday afternoon - Mar 3, 2009
.Tuesday night... Low 33, 0% chance of precipitation.
.Wednesday... Sunny, high 13, 0% chance of precipitation.
.Wednesday night... Low 45, 0% chance of precipitation.
.Thursday... Partly cloudy, high 27.
.Thursday night... Low 59.
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The text starting with "City Forecast" was output verbatim, except for the
blank line. The current conditions, which include both °C and °F (but without
the degree sign, even though the charset is UTF-8), are from
http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KRDU.TXT .
I went to the site you mentioned and found the elevation given as 200 ft. It
is 200 m, which I pointed out to the webmaster.
Pierre
