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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?"
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