Integrating Weather Reports into a Webserver? 61
meteorologist asks: "I work at a small college (300 students) in a small town (1500 people), and on our website we have a weather section. The problem is that it can only get weather information from a town 40 miles away. There is one local reporting station, but it reports exclusively to weatherbug, which slows down computers, and inevitably leads to spyware infections. How do I go about setting up a weather meter (temperature, humidity, wind velocity, and so forth) so that its results can be integrated into an already established website?"
Try using some APRS data (Score:3, Interesting)
CW2113>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CW2113:@290007z4138.23N/08
Ignore everything before the @
29 is the Day
0007z is the zulu time
4138.23N/08749.28W are the lattitude and longitude of the station
356/007g wind is from 356* at 7MPH
t056 tempature is 56*F
P057 0.57" of precip have fallen
h87 is 87% humidity
Alternatively you can buy a scanner and a TNC and listen to the packets yourself on 145.390MHz.
Some other interesting sites are jfindu [jfindu.net] and googleAPRS [googleaprs.com]
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(I did use WeatherBug for about a year or so until it the problems above multiplied and it was too much of a hassle).