[mdlug] Weather-info options

[Peter Bart]

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 19:09 -0400, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Michael Rudas wrote:
> > This is mostly for our North American-based list members.
> > 
> > Severe weather is a concern this time of year.  For years, I have been
> > using the advertising-supported WeatherBug and an ad-free alternative,
> > Weather Pulse under Microsoft Windows -- but was not aware of
> > alternatives under Linux, 
> 
> > ~~ Mikey
> 
> If you want something like the WeatherBug KDE provides an addon called
> KWeather that sits on a task bar and report weather conditions at your
> chosen weather station, typically an airport. The one feature it lacks
> has to do with the barometer. It reports the current reading, but not
> the delta or direction of change.
> 

Gnome has the same, I think it gets it's information from weather.com.
You can configure it to show quite a bit of information including a
radar map. Right click the panel you want to add this to; add to panel;
and select it from the list.

Best Regards,
-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net