Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!dan From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: finger weather is discontinued Message-ID: <1991Apr17.210507.184@gacvx2.gac.edu> Date: 18 Apr 91 03:05:07 GMT References: <1991Apr12.132907.25449@athena.mit.edu> <441@platypus.uofs.edu> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota Lines: 39 In article <441@platypus.uofs.edu>, bill@platypus.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: > > I'm not sure how this commercial outfit gets the data, but it apparently > originates at the various NWS offices. There was a real nice X-windows > Weather Map program that just suffered the same fate. > Now I have a suggestion for a possible solution. > Maybe what is needed is for people to find out how this information is > collected from the NWS and then if possible, try and find INTERNET sites > near each of the NWS stations (I am near AVP) and get them a connection > so that we can gather the info ourselves. Then all we need is a central > site to hold and distribute the information. After all, isn't it our tax > money that is generating this data in the first place?? > > bill > > > -- > Bill Gunshannon | If this statement wasn't here, > bill@platypus.uofs.edu | This space would be left intentionally blank > bill@tuatara.uofs.edu | #include Hmmm. How many institutions have a group that is doing some sort of long term weather data gathering. I seems to be a popular study subject here in the midwest, perhaps because of all these fields of crops arround here. Here at GAC we have an Apple // that is hooked to a unit that records temp, wind speed, air presure, etc. It is hooked to the Apple // by a serial port. The Apple // records the data to disk and draws graphs on the screen. Ever since the weather info server was localized I have been wondering if its data and data from others like it could be combined into something usefull. It wouldn't be as much fun as forecasts, but might get a group trying to make it work a grant. The grant might even be able to pay for a couple of years of forcasts from a weather service. It is data that is usefull to researchers, sounds like just the thing NSFnet exists for. Hmmm... -- Dan Boehlke Internet: dan@gac.edu Campus Network Manager BITNET: dan@gacvax1.bitnet Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 USA Phone: (507)933-7596