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FranBlakes
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 Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:42 pm Post subject: Looking for weather applet |
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I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
and looking for a weather applet that uses the codes like UKEN4605 as used on weather.com for more accurate forecast of the weather.
Any suggestions?
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catgate
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I think the first thing needed for your objective is more accurate weather. 
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I have also looked for a weather app for the panel, but have now given up and I just use the BBC site for Oxford. It is a lot more detailed than it used to be and extremely good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640729
The xfce weather applet does not seem to work properly, as far as I can see, in gnome, or not in 10.04 which I also still use. I have also added my nearest available site to the date/clock applet in gnome 2, and that tells me the temp, wind direction and speed, and sunrise/sunset times, but no forecast.
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nelz
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| catgate wrote: | | I think the first thing needed for your objective is more accurate weather. |
Our weather is extremely accurate, the rain hits me every time 
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The first of those links isn't going to help for very long, as the met office says it will remove the 'page' later this year - a threat which has to be taken seriously, as they've already cut off some the other pages of that series.
I don't find the 'new' page nearly as helpful, in that I haven't yet found a convenient way of playing the last 6 hours (as the current one does)
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catgate
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| dandnsmith wrote: | The first of those links isn't going to help for very long, as the met office says it will remove the 'page' later this year - a threat which has to be taken seriously, as they've already cut off some the other pages of that series.
I don't find the 'new' page nearly as helpful, in that I haven't yet found a convenient way of playing the last 6 hours (as the current one does) |
Yes I was aware of the promised "improvement" and, having looked at it, I have started sticking pins in an effigy of the Director General and hoping his rabbits die and he can not sell their cage.
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Having tried the new BBC thing, over the last week or so, I have come to the conclusion that it has quite a lot going for it, once one has become familiar with its workings and what it does using the various display options.
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