Weather Station Page v 1.0

OK, finally have something that I like. At least for now:

Personal Local Weather Station

If you’d like to see the actual page, you can find it linked here -> http://www.daviddemartini.com/WX/

In the next day or so, other changes will be made, so I’m saving this for posterity. I often find it interesting [...]

Setting up a custom ‘Weather Reader’ (Part 3) – Using Data

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It would be short work to grab the current observations from the local station’s file, then grab the full projected forecast from the Zone’s XML formatted data file (example for Bremerton). I checked the full forecast XML, and unfortunately it does not include the local current conditions. In the grand [...]

Setting up a custom ‘Weather Reader’ (Part 2)

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Setting up a custom ‘Weather Reader’ (Part 1) – Product Plan

What is a “Weather Reader”? Well, it’s like a “News Reader”, but it’s purpose is to check the web for local weather conditions and display them on a computer screen. For this project I’ve revived an old Averatec laptop, installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it and started to write some PERL.

Beat up old Averatec [...]

2 weeks into Winter and temps are very mild

Nice weather today (sunny!) and temps very reasonable. Tomorrow looks pretty decent too.

Sure beats the freezing snap in the southeast. Florida has seen more snow than we have. How about that global warming there, Atlanta?

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130 year trend in Precipitation

While here at home, watching it rain today, I began to wonder what the rainfall trends have been over the last 100 years, and if there is any obvious correlation to the increase or decrease, when compared with the so-called ‘Climate Change’ that is so much in the news.

While poking around the net [...]

Maybe snow, maybe not.

We were forecasted for snow overnight. Nothing materialized.

Forecast has changed a little bit. Right now it’s raining at just above freezing.

Tomorrow, the streets will probably be a ice rink. I’ll have to get my camera ready to train on the highway outside. It’s steep and heavily traveled. Could be some amusing [...]