Ways to get weather

2024-8-4

I'm a weather fan. Have been as long as I can remember. I

found many ways to get weather (mainly current conditions

and the forecast) over the years. Here's a list of all the

different ways to get weather, that I know of:

If you're in the US, chances are you live within range of

a NOAA weather radio tower that transmits current condit-

ions and forecasts 24/7. You'll need a radio capable of WB

(weather band) or a suitable shoutcast stream to receive

these live weather broadcasts, as read out by a robot voice.

Commercial radio, AM radio, in particular has many news and

talk stations scattered across the world - almost all of

which provide regular weather reports & forecasts. Be advised

that this is not as information-dense as NOAA radio. There

will be regular news, traffic, and oh so many commercials

sprinkled in between.

You can also get weather forecasts during certain hours (i.e.

the 6:00 news) from your local broadcast TV stations with a

digital antenna.

In the US, you even have a choice of national weather channels,

including these, ranked from best to worst:

You can also get current conditions, radar, and forecasts from

the following websites and many more:

I couldn't find a capsule for this that currently works. If you

know one, please send it my way! I will update.

You can join various IRC channels on EFNet, LiberaChat and other

servers, and use one of their user-maintained bots to get the weather,

usually to the syntax of something like this:

In your favorite terminal, just type: curl wttr.in

Or just stick your hand out the window! Bye bye!~

/gemlog/