Lynx Accessible Weather

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Tue Oct 31 16:18:11 UTC 2017


Here's a working alias for you, just change the zip code from 18942 to 
your own zip code and it sould work for you.

alias weather='lynx -dump 
"https://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?brand=braille&query=18942"'
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Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Linux for 
blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:15:43
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Lynx Accessible Weather
> 
> I need to find another weather service besides
> http://mobile.wunderground.com
> because they appear to be using some sort of croud-sourcing and
> the site I get most of the time is broken. The humidity is
> perpetually 100% with the dew point, at times, rounded up 1
> degree above the actual temperature. I would be more than happy
> to see conditions based on the NWS which are taken at our local
> air port.
>
> 	It's a shame because weather underground works with lynx
> and the output is easy to read but if it is wrong for months and
> nobody seems to care, it's not terribly useful.
>
> 	Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Martin McCormick
>
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