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Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:30:55 -0500
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 09:48:25AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
I miss weather underground before it became slow as molasses with openstreetmap and other things.
As do I, and the demise of uswx.com took away one of the alternatives. I spent some time earlier this year unsuccessfully trying to contact the people behind uswx.com in the hopes of restarting it as a very lightweight site that could be read in a text-only web browser *and* scripted -- since I think it would be handy to be have a weather site that could easily be scraped for custom uses such as "cron job that sends me a brief 3-day forecast for locations X Y Z every day at 6 AM". ---rsk
Current thread:
- Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Rich Kulawiec (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Mel Beckman (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Mark Tinka (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Daniel Seagraves (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data John Levine (Dec 10)
- RE: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Keith Medcalf (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Tom Beecher (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Jared Mauch (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Rich Kulawiec (Dec 10)
- Re: Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Miles Fidelman (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data William Herrin (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Mel Beckman (Dec 10)