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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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General Information 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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What?
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This command-line utility is intended to provide quick access to current
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weather conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is capable of returning
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data for localities throughout the USA and some select locations
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globally by retrieving and formatting decoded METARs (Meteorological
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Aerodrome Reports) from NOAA (the USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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Administration) and forecasts/alerts from NWS (the USA National Weather
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Service). The tool is written to function in the same spirit as other
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command-line informational utilities like cal(1), calendar(1) and
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dict(1). It retrieves arbitrary weather data via precompiled
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correlations or custom-tailored aliases (system-wide or on a per-user
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basis). It can be freely used and redistributed under the terms of a
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BSD-like License.
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Why?
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My girlfriend had a long commute to/from work and school, and often
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wanted to check the weather both for home and her office. Unfortunately,
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starting a Web browser, pulling up a weather site, entering multiple ZIP
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codes and waiting for them to load is time-consuming for the
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marginally-impatient. Since she tended to stay logged into a shell
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server most of the time, I figured I'd install a quick command-line tool
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to retrieve weather info for her commute. To my surprise, a quick search
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turned up little that met my basic requirements:
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* retrieve current data on-demand
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* provide both current conditions and short-term forecasts
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* simple, human-readable output
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* easy to configure and use
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* flexible command-line switches and options
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Where?
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A tarball for the most recent version of the weather utility can be had
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here:
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* http://fungi.yuggoth.org/weather/src/
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Alternatively, Debian and Ubuntu users can install the weather-util
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package from any mirror.
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