[asterisk-users] weather.agi

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On 12/16/2015 11:24 AM, Ryan Crowder wrote:
> http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/

Awesome!  Perfect!

Cheers,

j

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> LaCoursiere
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:11 AM
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> Subject: [asterisk-users] weather.agi
>
> Here is a funny story.  We mostly do hotels in the Caribbean, and one of our
> first clients (going on ten years now) used the sample "weather.agi"
> that used to be shipped with... asterisk at home? Trixbox?  Can't even recall
> where we originally got it from.
>
> This perl script uses festival to speak a brief weather forecast to the
> caller.  We told our hotels this was a feature for guests, and assigned a
> function code to execute it.  They have been using it for years.  In fact
> the front desk used to just dial it in speaker mode for guests checking in.
>
> Here is the funny part - the text for the weather forecast was coming from
> an anonymous FTP site at tgftp.nws.noaa.gov.  Sometime in 2013 they stopped
> updating the forecast!  So ever since then the caller would get the forecast
> for June something 2013.  But because the weather in St Thomas is nearly the
> same year round, NO ONE NOTICED!  Well, until just recently.
>
> After we stopped laughing about it, they now want me to fix it.  But I can't
> seem to find a new source of textual summary weather data.
>
> So... has anyone else run into this and fixed it by chance?  Or can point me
> to weather data?
>
> Cheers,
>
> j
>
>
> Does something here work for you?
> http://search.usa.gov/search?v%3Aproject=firstgov&query=web+service&affiliat
> e=nws.noaa.gov
>
>    --Don
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