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From: kline@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Network Temperature Protocol
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.144406.19495@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 14:44:06 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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craig@NNSC.NSF.NET writes:
>I've had this fantasy for about two years now that I'd someday convince
>someone to take this sort of weather info (or perhaps satellite weather data
>which some sites make available) and combine it with the MERIT geography
>server, and allow me, on my bitmapped workstation, to pull up the current
>weather map for some part of the country on my workstation screen.


Here at the U of I I can run "wxmap" and then tell it I want a map centered
on Champaign and a current conditions map will appear on my X display,
complete with weather watch boxes and severe weather risk areas. Radar data
is coming soon.

The code was homegrown here in the cornfields. The weather data comes
from Alden Electronics, a reseller of government weather data. It all
comes out in the WMO format, with which I struggle every day.

Is this what you mean?

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Charley Kline, KB9FFK/KT, PP-ASEL                            c-kline@uiuc.edu
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