On Tuesday 03 March 2009 14:55:31 James Frysinger wrote: > The elevation of the indicated forecast area on the map shown on the > page I referred to, and as pointing to my Middle Tennessee location, > shows elevations in feet.
When I entered my location, it shows 656 feet when temperatures are in degrees Fahrenheit, and 200 feet when they're in degrees Celsius. 200 meters is correct. The elevation of Wagner is 207.69 m and that of APAC is 197.54 m; both are on the CPCC campus. > I am not familiar with Wireshark or with the website from which you > downloaded this data, Pierre. I took a quick look just now at their > Users Guide and their man page and had no success seeking 'weather' for > the command description. Wireshark has nothing to do with the weather program. It records network traffic. To install the weather program, type "aptitude install weather-util" if you have a Debian system or something like "rpm -i weather-util.rpm" if you have Red Hat. You'll need Python. > I noticed that this data seems to come from the METARs and is "decoded" > by KRDU (your local NWS Forecast Office). METARs provide present/last > observations and do not provide forecasts. KRAH must be providing the > forecast info. I think you might like like to contact them about > formatting issues. > http://www.erh.noaa.gov/rah/ > [email protected] Actually I'm in Charlotte; "rdu" is what weather assumes if I don't tell it a location. If I specify "clt", the forecast appears to come from GSP, but the area shown on www.erh.noaa.gov/gsp/ doesn't include Charlotte. The host the weather program fetches the forecasts from is just weather.noaa.gov, so should I contact [email protected]? Pierre Pierre
