On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, m.roth@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 functionality of the CentOS6 Gnome clock applet was using the same service.
<rant> "Smaller" government, Cut taxes (for the rich). Make people pay for what they're already paying taxes to support.... </rant>
Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they want to now charge you $3/yr for the service.
The data is still there for free. The National Weather Service sent out a message several months ago that http://weather.noaa.gov and the data on that site would be shut down due to server consolidaton.
Here's the official announcement, and where the data is available now:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm
Gilbert
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