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Weather plug in #65

Open wjhdev opened 9 years ago

wjhdev commented 9 years ago

From staff:

Weather plug in (maybe from the atmospheric science dept building)

We did something where we pulled w-underground data for weather in the past, that has a location somewhere around campus that they pull from. It would be need to interface directly with the universities equipment. I'll ask a friend who works in that building what we can do.

wjhdev commented 9 years ago

Friend replies. Feed from the AOS building that could be parsed. http://aos.wisc.edu/weather/wx_text/msn_ob.shtm

jasonjan2003 commented 9 years ago

Very cool. ^summer project?

jasonjan2003 commented 8 years ago

latest on parsing msn_ob.shtm after an email exchange with a nice staff at AOS:

Here are all of the possible 'sky conditions' that could be listed on that observation page line 2:

unobserved clear mostly clear partly cloudy mostly cloudy cloudy

The weather conditions aren't always reported on line 3, (if there is no notable weather condition to report) but if they are, they will be some combination of the primary conditions of:

rain drizzle ice crystals ice pellets snow hail snow grains snow pellets fog widespread dust fog sand smoke haze volcanic ash spray a thunderstorm

These may be preceeded by the the qualifiers:

heavy moderate light shallow blowing partial showers of patches of thunder low drifting freezing

There can be more than one set of these, for example I just found one that had

light rain and fog