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Greg Marks
May 27, 2021, 8:40:04 PM5/27/21
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I have three small questions about the MATE application Weather Report,
version 1.20.3, the MATE panel application for monitoring local weather
conditions.
1. Is there a way to set the default size of the Weather Report window?
The preset default seems to be 58 characters, which is slightly smaller
than the length of the lines in the Forecast tab.
2. Is there a package containing all icons for Weather Report?
For some conditions, such as "broken clouds," no icon is displayed in
the panel. Various weather icons seem to be installed in subdirectories
of /usr/share/icons/mate, but some conditions appear not to be included
among the icons.
3. In the preferences, "enable radar map" never seems to show anything
under the Radar Map tab. The manual says that Weather Report downloads
radar maps from www.weather.com, which seems to be a URL for The Weather
Channel, and one must do a bit of searching on that site to find radar
maps. Can one fix this by selecting "Use custom address for radar map"
in preferences, and if so, what URL should one enter for U.S. radar maps?
Best regards,
Greg Marks
version 1.20.3, the MATE panel application for monitoring local weather
conditions.
1. Is there a way to set the default size of the Weather Report window?
The preset default seems to be 58 characters, which is slightly smaller
than the length of the lines in the Forecast tab.
2. Is there a package containing all icons for Weather Report?
For some conditions, such as "broken clouds," no icon is displayed in
the panel. Various weather icons seem to be installed in subdirectories
of /usr/share/icons/mate, but some conditions appear not to be included
among the icons.
3. In the preferences, "enable radar map" never seems to show anything
under the Radar Map tab. The manual says that Weather Report downloads
radar maps from www.weather.com, which seems to be a URL for The Weather
Channel, and one must do a bit of searching on that site to find radar
maps. Can one fix this by selecting "Use custom address for radar map"
in preferences, and if so, what URL should one enter for U.S. radar maps?
Best regards,
Greg Marks
Russell L. Harris
May 27, 2021, 10:20:06 PM5/27/21
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On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:27:47PM -0500, Greg Marks wrote:
Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with
a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/. It
is based on GoogleEarth, so it can zoom in to show even street names,
and zoom out to show the land coast-to-coast.
RLH
Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with
a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/. It
is based on GoogleEarth, so it can zoom in to show even street names,
and zoom out to show the land coast-to-coast.
RLH
Greg Marks
May 28, 2021, 3:20:06 PM5/28/21
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> Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with
> a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/.
Setting "Use custom address for radar map" to https://www.livewxradar.com
> a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/.
does not solve the problem; still nothing shows up in the Radar Map tab
of Weather Report.
Best regards,
Greg Marks
Bret Busby
May 28, 2021, 4:00:05 PM5/28/21
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browser, you might be interested in going to wunderground.com, and,
following the link to their wundermap, then, zooming in to your
location; right down to suburb/location level; even, to street/road level.
Then, go to the dashboard for each of the closest three weather
stations, and select the one that seems most appropriate.. Also, looking
at the weather forecast options available, for the particular weather
station, is interesting; forecast for the next ten days, or, for each
hour of the current or next day.
I hope that this is helpful.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............
Russell L. Harris
May 28, 2021, 4:20:04 PM5/28/21
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On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 01:32:24PM -0500, Greg Marks wrote:
>> Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with
>> a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/.
>
>Setting "Use custom address for radar map" to https://www.livewxradar.com
>does not solve the problem; still nothing shows up in the Radar Map tab
>of Weather Report.
Forgive me; I did not mean to suggest LIVEWXRADAR as a solution to
>> Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with
>> a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/.
>
>Setting "Use custom address for radar map" to https://www.livewxradar.com
>does not solve the problem; still nothing shows up in the Radar Map tab
>of Weather Report.
your problem.
But when the forecast is for rough weather, I devote a browser screen
to LIVEWXRADAR for the day or evening, and flip over to it now and
then. Again, the big advantages are real time display and ability to
zoom in and out.
Local wind and rainfall I monitor with a Davis Vantage Pro2; I use
WEEWX to log data and upload pages to a web site.
RLH
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