Lynx Accessible Weather

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I've bookmarked the following for lattitude and longitude data. I find
them very useful:

World Cities Listed by Lattitude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_latitude

World Cities Listed by Longitude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_longitude


There are numerous similar resources on line. I've just found these two
particularly useful with screen readers.

hth

Janina

Linux for blind general discussion writes:
> Tim here.  I have no idea my latitude/longitude, but I did a search
> on Wikipedia and part of the page includes the latitude/longitude in
> degrees/minutes/seconds. But it was a link to the Open StreetMap page
> which includes them in decimal form (I could also have done the math,
> but was feeling a little lazy).  The NWS page outputs concise data,
> but the granularity is low.  Thus it finds that DFW airport is the
> closest station to me, but the weather here and in DFW can be
> radically different, despite a mere 30 miles or so between us.
> 
> If you just want a subset of the output from that page, you can pipe
> it with "lynx -dump" through the utility of your choice, such as
> 
> alias weather='lynx -dump "https://forecast-v3.weather.gov/point/32.7758,-96.7967?view=plain&mode=min" | sed "1,/Weekly [fF]orecast/d;/Point Forecast/,\$d"'
> 
> which uses sed to chop off extra stuff at the top/bottom.
> 
> -tim
> 
> 
> On October 31, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > I'll have to also try that as I do know our air port code and our
> > latitude and longitude at least the degrees part, not the minutes
> > but that would probably get one quite close enough.
> > 
> > 	Maybe a little tinkering with perl could make it just
> > right.
> > 
> > 	Before I retired, I worked in Network Operations at
> > Oklahoma State University for 25 years and dabbled in C as in gcc
> > before a coworker got me to learning perl.  I now wish I had
> > spent more time developing in perl since what one comes up with
> > is faster to produce and tends to have less hidden bugs in it.
> > 
> > 	The truth be known, A better C programmer also comes up
> > with programs that have fewer hidden bugs so I am not blaming
> > anybody but myself.  Figuring out how to make the machines do
> > what we want them to do is fun and sometimes, a little
> > frustrating.
> > 
> > Many thanks.
> > 
> > 	Martin
> > Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> writes:
> > > Tim here. While not lynx accessible per se, you can use
> > > 
> > >   $ curl http://wttr.in/dallas,tx
> > > 
> > > to get a weather report in the terminal.  I have a few small
> > > issues with it, though the biggest is that it tries to be pretty
> > > and ends up going beyond 80 columns of text.  But you can change
> > > the location to any number of things, whether zip-code, city
> > > name, or airport code.
> > > 
> > > There's more documentation and source at
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure of its weather source (if it ties to Weather
> > > Underground or not)
> > > 
> > > Alternatively, if you know your latitude and longitude, you can
> > > plug them in this URL
> > > 
> > > https://forecast-v3.weather.gov/point/32.7758,-96.7967?view=plain&mode=min
> > > 
> > > (that happens to be Dallas, TX near here) which uses the NWS data.
> > > You can either bookmark it in lynx or make a function/alias in
> > > bash to pull up that URL for you quickly.
> > > 
> > > Hope those suggestions help,
> > > 
> > > -tim  
> > 
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