Localising Weather Applications¶

There are a number of weather related applications for the Linux desktop. Most of these lookup up weather data from airport meteorological stations. These stations are identified by an international 4 character abbreviation. These applcications use this to lookup the correct weather information.

Applications¶

Problems¶

FIXME this data may be out of date please check and update it.

In Evolution there is a problem in that location names are not localisable. Bug #89746 refers to this problem.

Where do you get the data¶

More pressing then the localisability is the fact that many localitions are missing for countries. The data is easily retrieved. Use the following URLs to identify weather stations in yor country and locations.

You may have to correct a few where names have changed eg airport names or to reflect to a normal user not an aeroplane pilot where this site is located.

https://www.notams.jcs.mil/common/icao/index.html – This is a good listing of sites sorted by country
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/site.shtml – Contains downloadable ASCII version and instructions on obtaining hardcopy versions – downloadable version seems to be missing
http://www.wapf.com/world/FALA.html – Produces nice maps and proximity to other stations to help you identify the location.
http://www.partow.net/miscellaneous/airportdatabase/ – A database representation of the ICAO codes.
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml – You can retrieve data from multiple stations. Useful to check whether the ICAO code is valid for weather data.
http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/mgetmetar.pl?cccc=FAJS – The actual URL used by Localising GWeather to retrieve weather data.

Please also check the data of the weather, it might be so out of date that it is not valid.