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A Saucy Wench
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
Can you make the weather auto populate?
I think this is asking a lot of a mere mortal, even Eric.
"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus
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It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
cheers... -Adam
See this post:
http://sitening.com/blog/google-weather-feed/
I have been fortunate enough to meet the great and powerful Eric, he is no mere mortal.
E.J.Greater Lowell Road RunnersCry havoc and let slip the dawgs of war!May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your SPF30, may the rains fall soft upon your sweat-wicking hat, and until you hit the finish line may The Flying Spaghetti Monster hold you in the hollow of His Noodly Appendage.
Gandalf the Grey
+1
Neil
Running ... just keep running!
You can get current raw observation data from the National Weather Service via several sources. However, for most of these, you need to know your local station ID. For example: William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster, CA is KWJF.
FTP: ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/
HTTP: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/
XML/RSS feeds: http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/
For historical data, it's a bit trickier. Using the NWS, the data will need to be extracted from a more complex page.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?sid=KWJF&banner=off&num=700
You need more location data for this link. SID is again the station ID. NUM is the number of recent observations to display. (72 = past 3 days, 168 = 7 days, etc...)