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Weather indicator for linux7/17/2023 ![]() ![]() Weather O’Clock merges the weather forecast with the panel clock reading – it makes it part of the clock, not something separate from it. Some launch the GNOME Weather app instead: Similar extension, but a different approach Thus, when you click the weather forecast in the panel a menu or pop-over appears with more weather information. There are a ton of weather extensions for GNOME Shell that, amongst other abilities, can show the current temperature in the top panel in various locations.īut those extensions usually create a separate panel applet. Of course, being a user of the GNOME desktop I am spoilt for choices in this regard. Rational or not being able to look up and see current weather conditions/temperature at-a-glance is something I do like. See, like many, I want to know what the weather is doing while I use my computer (yes, this is despite being sat next to a window I could look out of □). ![]() What’s interesting here is that no one ever mentions ‘Mary Kathleen’, you never go to ‘Mary Kathleen’ you always go to Mount Isa.Weather O’Clock is a new GNOME extension that does something very simple, yet ever-so satisfying. We have an area in Queensland known as Mount Isa, a search in wttr.in using wttr.in/Mount%20Isa will find it, bit the actual area that is being reported on is the Town of ‘Mary Kathleen’, which is the actual town at that location. So the upshot is wattr.in is working as written. It is only where there are multiple town in a country with the same name that you are required to enter the State, so my closest towns Must be entered as, Queensland, Australia, because there is a town with the same name in NSW, so Toowoomba is entered as Toowoomba, Australia… searching for Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia throws an error. If the city or Town name occurs once only in the world, you may enter only that … so Paris is a valid searh parm Better Weather contains a couple of scripts using normal KDE and Linux tools to provide better display of weather info. If there is only one town or city with the name you are looking for, you need… no MUST enter only the town or city name plus the country name. But those two Cities don’t register.Īnd Toowoomba is closer to a met station than we are, unless you count the tiny country airstrip weather weather measurement service. Yeah we have an airstrip here, but Toowoomba has an airport, so does Hervey Bay, for example. What’s got me Flummoxed is the fact that much bigger towns, like Toowoomba, don’t register, while the little town I’m near, in the back blocks of Queensland does. The thing is I get a very detailed weather report and forecast (using wttr.in) for my nearest little town, but nothing at all for much larger towns and Cities. It’s not difficult to write a python/qt wrapper for wttr.in, and basically it will be fun, and I can make it work the way I want. The BOM api doesn’t require I sign up, and it knows my locality. Yes I know the OpenWeatherMap key is free, but the confirmation email has clearly triggered one of my anti spam filters, and I can’t be bothered finding out which one. Wego is written by the same person as wrote wttr.in, but it uses OpenWeatherMap Weather desk is out (see above), also aesthetic reasonsĬumulus is a possibility as it uses yahoo weather The fate of Se supplied to surface environments by atmospheric deposition strongly depends on total Se concentrations as well as its chemical form (speciation). Simple weather indicator is out (see above) Atmospheric deposition is an important source of the essential trace element selenium (Se) to terrestrial ecosystems and food chains. Meteo-qt is definitively out, ituses OpenWeatherMap If the data source doesn’t know about the small towns near where I live, then it has no value, for me.Īs I’ve already said wttr.in uses, among other data sources the Australian BOM, which means it does know about my part of the world. The problem has always been the data source. My rant was about how, at least until recently, there were none that knew anything about small towns in Australia. Thanks yes I am aware of lots of Weather apps. ![]()
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