Then again, I AM reading this at 3 AM right after a friend IM’d me about it right after his Bloglines Notifier notified him (I don’t use the Notifier).

… (looks around) oookkkay, you’re not the only one :) …

… time to invent a web based notifier for whilst I’m at work me thinks … :)

If I remember correctly, you can call a php script by running php path_to_file so you don’t have to have the php in a public location, but that was “back in the day”. I suppose this would be a perfect job for Perl, on the other hand.

I’m definitely interested in hearing about any better ways to do this, including the path_to_file thing you mentioned, but consider:

1. What’s the difference between someone hitting this PHP script 100 times a second and someone hitting any other PHP page on my site 100 times a second? That said, it’s probably a good idea to rename weather.php anyway.

2. If you want to take down poor NOAA, can’t you just bang on their rss feeds yourself?

(Editor’s Note: You got it. I just added centigrade in there. Kelvins would be cool, yes, but that’s entering a level of geekness that I’m not ready to accept yet.)

Thanks for continuously dishing out new things to inspire the rest of us.

(Editor’s Note: Done. Need to get over this impulse to save bandwidth… :) )

For instance, the airport nearest Nevada City, CA was way off since the elevation is way different (this is in the Sierra Nevadas) — but this site has a feed just for Nevada City.

They have a couple of stipulations for using their feeds which you may not like: only one check per hour, and you must link to them. Are there RSS weather directory sites that let you use their feeds for “free”?

http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/08343?dayf=1 is an xml feed with which to play.
(subsitute your zip, then view the source or change the dayf value for a forecast)

i went through a weather kick a while back. (un)fortunately work picked up and i never got a chance to finish my weather module.

10 * * * * /yourlocalfilepath/weather.php > /dev/null

That’s it. That will hit the file once an hour on the tens.

Sam: Nope, I live in Queen Anne, but the view is similar to the one you’d get in Magnolia (west facing towards Alki).

Bill: Find me a webcam which produces high resolution snaps and I can improve the picture quality. All webcams basically produce shit snapshots so I’m not even using one. I’m using a full-on Sony DV Cam. As for the artificial scanlines, I put those in there because they actually give the illusion that the picture is sharper (a la a television set).