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* Release 2.0: Heavy rewrite with too many new features to enumerate here in the ChangeLog file. * NEWS: List of important changes since 1.x releases. * weather, weather.py: Implemented support for Python 3000 as requested by ptchinster on behalf of Arch Linux, conditions/forecast searches by latitude/longitude requested by Brandt Daniels, support for newer NOAA forecasts pointed out by Darryl Mouck and Richard Dooling, custom URIs requested by Michel Pelzer, international weather stations requested by Milton Hubsher, and fixed a metric conversion issue with negative values reported by Jochen Keil, Michiel Appelman and Stefan Metzlaff. Thanks to everyone for your input and assistance!
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Frequently Asked Questions About the Weather Utility
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:Copyright: (c) 2006-2012 Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>. Permission
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to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software is
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granted under terms provided in the LICENSE file distributed
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with this software.
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.. contents::
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1. Can I help?
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Sure! Bug reports and feature suggestions are always welcome, but fixes
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and patches are of course preferred. Contact fungi@yuggoth.org if
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desired, but please read this FAQ and the included manuals for
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weather(1) and weatherrc(5) before asking questions that might be
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answered therein.
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2. How do I figure out my local METAR station ID?
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The list of stations included in the "stations" file is comprised of
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thousands of entries, so if you're within the USA it's recommended to
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use weather's built-in Census place name and ZCTA (postal ZIP code)
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searching capabilities. Otherwise, using its latitude,longitude
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coordinate search feature is probably your best bet. See the weather(1)
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manual for examples.
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3. How do I figure out my local city name and state abbreviation?
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As of the 2.0 release, this is no longer necessary. In Spring of 2011
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the NWS switched away from city-named forecast zone IDs to the numeric
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state zone IDs also used for alerts. As a result, weather now comes with
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pregenerated correlations between airports/stations and zones along with
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USA Census (FIPS and ZCTA/ZIP code) and global latitude,longitude
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coordinates and can search among them in a flexible and intuitive
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manner. See the weather(1) manual for examples.
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4. I live outside the USA--can this be made to work for me anyway?
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ICAO codes for METAR stations can be found for cities and airports
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worldwide, but forecast and alert data is harder to come by. If you have
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any recommendations of plaintext data for other countries available in a
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format like NOAA's, I will be happy to start incorporating it into the
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weather utility. If the data is published in a non-English language,
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I'll require some additional input from speakers of that language for
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how to handle filtering and formatting of the text.
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5. Why do I get the wrong forecast when specifying -i or --id?
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As of the 2.0 release, this question is no longer relevant.
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6. Where can I get a list of the NWS advisory zones for alerts?
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As of the 2.0 release, this is no longer necessary. See FAQ entries #2
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and #3 for more detail.
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