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 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 ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: gilbert at niu.edu *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NIU_Weather ** Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/niu.weather * *******************************************************************************