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Article #945RFC Canadian Weather Data Sources
From: Gregory E. Simm
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:00
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Hi Folks, Please pardon this post if I am in an inappropriate group, for I am nearing the end of my rope here... I have been searching for many hours for Canadian weather sources, and although I have found some very interesting sites, and very good clients, I have also found, much to my dissapointment, that the vast majority of these sites are US data, and almost all international data excludes Canada. It is also interesting to note that the "North American" data ends at the 49'th B-( Who teaches these guys geography? If anyone has been successful in finding a Canadian data site that caters to some of the excellent client software, I would be especially greatful for a tip or two. I have been to Weathernet's new Canada weather page, and although there is presently text reports, they are promising further support in the future for the sattelite imagery etc. Any idea what they have in store for us? I am particularily interested in setting up a good interactive client that will grab data and images (like winweather and blueskies), or alternatively a source for the Canadian data that as near as I can figure must be manually loaded into programs like weathergraphix and WxView. I have not come across an faq for this info, so if any of you patient individuals can help out a floundering wanna-be enthusiast, please dump some info my way (gsimm@ccinet.ab.ca) or set me on the right track. If not, accept my apologies for taking up your time. In case it is of interest to anyone, we are looking forward to another week of -40 C and are presently enjoying our unseasonably high volume of snow from the last 3 weeks (approx 3 feet sitting on my barbeque... B-) With gratitude, Greg Simm.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100886,13d0957368ab84e1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid100886,public From: gsimm@ccinet.ab.ca (Gregory E. Simm) Subject: RFC Canadian Weather Data Sources Date: 1996/01/14 Message-ID: <4dbqk5$14lg@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> X-Deja-AN: 135356720 organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada newsgroups: bc.weather