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* Release 1.3. * FAQ: Update to clarify that specifying an id won't automatically provide a city and st to get the accompanying forecast. * weather: Provided a consistent means for relocating weather.py to a private location; thanks to Mark Tran for pointing out a conflict with pyweather in ArchLinux (and presumably other distros as well). * weather.py: Upped the version to 1.3.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WEATHER UTILITY
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Copyright (c) 2006 Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>, all rights reserved.
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Licensed per terms in the LICENSE file distributed with this software.
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Table of Contents:
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1. Can I help?
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2. How do I figure out my local METAR station ID?
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3. How do I figure out my local city name and state abbreviation?
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4. I live outside the USA--can this be made to work for me
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anyway?
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5. Why do I get the wrong forecast when specifying -i or --id?
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1. Can I help?
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Sure! Bug reports and feature suggestions are always welcome, but
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fixes and patches are of course preferred. Contact
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fungi@yuggoth.org if desired, but please read this FAQ and the
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included manuals for weather(1) and weatherrc(5) before asking
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questions that might be answered therein. One big way anyone can
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help is to provide me with some additional mappings of METAR
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station ID, city name and state abbreviation for inclusion in the
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default /etc/weatherrc file.
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2. How do I figure out my local METAR station ID?
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The list of stations is found at
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http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_cccc.gz (it's thousands of lines
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long, so I recommend keyword searching in your browser or using
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grep(1) to find what you're looking for).
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3. How do I figure out my local city name and state abbreviation?
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The forecasts can be located starting from
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http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/city/ (choose the
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state abbreviation to get to a list of cities in that state).
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4. I live outside the USA--can this be made to work for me
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anyway?
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If you have any recommendations for similar forecast data in
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other countries, I will be happy to try and find a way to
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integrate it into the weather utility, but I suspect that some
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serious modification would be necessary given that the data is
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likely to be published in a non-English language, requiring some
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additional input from speakers of that language for how to handle
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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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The -i or --id switch (or the id parameter in an alias definition),
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only tells weather(1) what current conditions to retrieve. If you
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specify -f or --forecast on the command line (or forecast=True in
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an alias) without providing a city name and state abbreviation
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(-c/--city and -s/--st, or city and st in an alias), you will
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instead see the forecast for the built-in default location (or the
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city and st defined in the default alias, if you have one). See
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question 3 above for information on figuring out what city name and
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state abbreviation to use, and the manual for weatherrc(5) for
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information on defining aliases.
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