[GreenKeys] Heavy Metal - realtime feeds

[Duncan Brown]

Never send out a URL without checking it first to see if it is still 
working!!

On 30-Apr-18 11:41, Duncan Brown wrote:
> Just wanted to report that for some real-time material to print on 
> your TTYs, the National Weather Service FTP site is still available 
> and usable.
> e.g.   ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/ny/nyz014.txt
>
> Use the "Weather" dropdown menu on Heavy Metal 2.5 to find the ftp for 
> your area.
>
My example above works, but the Nnational Weather Service changed their 
website since HeavyMetal 2.5 was written and the URLs for weather 
reports available from the "Weather" dropdown menu no longer work. 
(Actually some do work, but the weather forecasts are a few years old!)

NWS is providing forecasts by zones now, not cities.  To get a text 
forecast for a specific area, go to 
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/
click on your state, then click on one of the text files for a forecast.
Unfortunately, they are not listed by location, but they come in quickly 
and you just have to try some to find the area yu are interested in.  
(Maybe there is an index somewhere?)

Once you find a FTP site you like, copy it into the "Heavymetal.mnu" 
file in the form of:
"-GENERIC_FTP, 
name,ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/ny/nyz014.txt"
       "name" is the descriptive title you want to show up in the Custom 
menu


Have fun,

Duncan,
K2OEQ


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