Weather Alert program.

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Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:42:01 +0000 (GMT)


I believe you are right, but I don't know how to write scripts.

Thanks anyway.

Lee

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Dennis Kibbe wrote:

> On Saturday 12 October 2002 09:26 am, you wrote:
> > I used to use a Windows program called InterWarn which would
> > download new weather alerts for Arizona from the National Weather Service,
> > sound an alert and then e-mail the new alert.  (It really does a bit more,
> > but that's what I'm mostly interested in.) It could search for new alerts
> > as little as every 1 minute to as much as every 60 minutes.
> 
> While I haven't rerally researched it, I'm under the impression that the raw 
> weather data is easliy obtainable from http://weather.gov. possibly via FTP 
> and is in an open, text format. 
> 
> Should be easy to sent up a script/filter to download trhe current info and 
> then look for certain keywords.
> 
> Or am I mistaken?
> 
> Dennis Kibbe
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