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...his was a feature for guests, and assigned a function code to execute it. They have been using it for years. In fact the front desk used to just dial it in speaker mode for guests checking in. Here is the funny part - the text for the weather forecast was coming from an anonymous FTP site at tgftp.nws.noaa.gov. Sometime in 2013 they stopped updating the forecast! So ever since then the caller would get the forecast for June something 2013. But because the weather in St Thomas is nearly the same year round, NO ONE NOTICED! Well, until just recently. After we stopped laughing about it...

On 8/24/2016 8:46 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they > want to now charge you $3/yr for the service. I'm getting DNS not found errors from anything in NOAA.GOV. anyways, 'climate' refers to historical averages by location/month/week/date. presumably the API involved here was for current weather conditions

...ls this was a feature for guests, and assigned a function code to execute it. They have been using it for years. In fact the front desk used to just dial it in speaker mode for guests checking in. Here is the funny part - the text for the weather forecast was coming from an anonymous FTP site at tgftp.nws.noaa.gov. Sometime in 2013 they stopped updating the forecast! So ever since then the caller would get the forecast for June something 2013. But because the weather in St Thomas is nearly the same year round, NO ONE NOTICED! Well, until just recently. After we stopped laughing about it, th...

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > isdtor wrote: >> The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6. >> http://weather.noaa.gov/ says "This service is no longer available". Are >> there any good alternatives? I liked the applet as it allowed the use of a >> custom radar map. >> >> As I just discovered, the weather

...3/person is saying thats what the National Weather service costs to provide annually. its not a fee. anyways, here's the bulletin saying the old weather.noaa.gov web api is discontinued http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm the raw data is now distributed here, http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/ -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

Hi, NOAA moved the url on which you can get the data. I use clweather, a little command-line util, I just change the URL in the sourcecode and it worked again. The move happen a couple of weeks ago. The new URL to point the application to is: http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/ Good luck & 73, Adrian -- Adri P. van Bloois Antonlaan 104 email: adrian at pa0rda.nl 3701 VG Zeist voice: +31-(0)-30-6912741 The Netherlands fax: NONE 52 05'15.77"N 5 4'44.56"E QTH-locater JO 22 OC "Elegance...