Topic: Good bookmark for NWS

[anchorageweather]

If you use the NWS for forecasts, here is something kinda cool you can do with your bookmarks (works for FF, I'm sure it will work for IE too - but I have not tried it):

Create a bookmark with the following code in the "location" field:

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javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection(); if(!q){void(q=prompt('Enter your zip code:',''))};if(q)location.href='http://www.weather.gov/'+escape(q)})()

When you use the bookmark the following box will pop-up:






Now just enter your zip code and it will take you to the NWS forecast for that area.

If you are a WU fan just replace the URL in the script with:

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=

It should save a few keystrokes.  Hope this is helpful  

[DundeeWeather]

Very cool!  Thank you sir.

[weatherforyou]

And for weatherforyou.com it would be...

http://www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/hw3/hw3.cgi?forecast=zandh&pands=

[anchorageweather]

And for weatherforyou.com it would be...

http://www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/hw3/hw3.cgi?forecast=zandh&pands=

Whoops.... didn't mean to slight your great site, Joe.  Thanks for the heads up.  

[Shawn]

And for weatherforyou.com it would be...

http://www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/hw3/hw3.cgi?forecast=zandh&pands=

I like weather for you! Great stuff!

[CookevilleWeatherGuy]

I like WeatherForYou also!

[FourOhFour]

In Firefox, Opera, and OmniWeb (and probably others) you can also set it up so that you can type a keyword and the zip code right into the address bar. I have it set up for "wx <zip>".

To do this in Firefox, just go to your weather site of choice, right click where the zip code goes, and select "Add a keyword for this search"


Then, just name your new bookmark (search keywords in Firefox are stored as bookmarks) and pick a keyword. I suggest something short:


Now try it out... hit command (or control) L (or click in the location bar) and type your keyword, a space, and your zip.

Your Firefox probably already has some search keywords configured; look in Bookmarks -> Quick Searches to see which. (wp for Wikipedia is probably the most useful one in there)

(I gave the directions for Firefox since that's probably more popular than Opera or OmniWeb. For OmniWeb it's "Add Search Shortcut" and for Opera it's "Create Search")

[Mark / Ohio]

Cool!  Thanks!  I just tried it for Weatherforyou (wf) and Weather Underground (wu) using Firefox.