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Integrating Weather Reports into a Webserver?
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?"
Fire up google and search for "home weather meter computer kit".
Wow amazing! It's like a knowledge index for websites that returns results for stuff you want to know about!
Wireless Weather Rock -- Tie a rock to a rope and hang the rope from a
piece of wood stuck in the ground.
If rock is wet: It is raining
If rock is white: It is snowing
If you can only see top half of rock: It is really snowing
If white things are bouncing off side of rock: It is hailing
If you can see shadow of rock: It is sunny
No shadow: It is overcast
If you cannot see rock: It is night time
If rock is slowly swinging back and forth: It is windy
If rock is pulling rope horizontal: It is a hurricane
If rock, rope, and stick are gone: There was a tornado
That's too much fuss! Do this instead:
1. Take an old 486 and install weatherbug on it.
2. Setup webacam to take pics off the 486's monitor.
3. Serve webcam pics.
Grump.
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