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Author Topic: Suggestions on alternate data source??  (Read 394 times)
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« on: January 20, 2012, 06:26:27 PM »

My Vantage Pro2 wireless console got knocked to the floor (frisky kitty!) and the LCD display cracked, so I sent it to Davis for repair. In the meantime, I have no local weather data for my VWS site.  Sad

Anyone know of a way to capture public weather data -- like from Weather Underground, etc. -- and post it were my local data usually appears? I can still get the forecast data and such from VWS via Weather Underground, but the local data won't update until my system is back on line. I've seen other personal weather sites with radar maps and such where the site owner has inserted a snippet of code to show the radar, etc. Just curious if anyone has done something similar with local temp, humidity, rain totals, etc.
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 06:44:13 PM »

maybe set to use a METAR as the data source
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« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2012, 10:12:33 PM »

You could use a weather sticker from a nearby station.

The first station in your Weather Exchange table:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/stickers.asp?ID=KNCWINST23&camurl=http://icons.wunderground.com/webcamramdisk/p/i/PilotPaul/1/current.jpg&freq=2.5&units=english&lang=EN

I did this when my SIM failed last spring.
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