Weather module broken?

By AndrewC-1 on 29 Jan 2005 at 12:47 UTC

I use the weather module on two sites, and for about four days, both sites have not displayed the weather, showing instead the module message that the weather is not currently available.

There is a notice on the weatherroom.com site:

Weatherroom.com server and software has recently been upgraded. Please contact us if you have any issues

There is no date on the notice, but I wonder if they have changed something that has broken the weather module. Has anyone else noticed a problem?

Comments

weather server offline?

larz commented 4 February 2005 at 06:58

it appears that xml feeds from weatherroom.com are not functioning.

take a look farther down the page you mention,
http://www.weatherroom.com/add.html

about halfway down, you'll find the following text.
'NOTICE: Add a XML Weather Feed currently ofline'

(i think that should be 'offline' rather than 'ofline')
i interpret that as meaning the feeds are not available at this time.

i was trying to install the weather module for the first time.
so, i assume the reason it's not working for me is the xml feed problem.
does anyone have weather feeds working right now?

does anyone know of any other weather sources that can be used instead of weatherroom.com?

The other catch is that the

sepeck commented 4 February 2005 at 07:10

The other catch is that the module will hang your entire website. It's why I stopped using it. Perhaps some ping availability test could be engineered into it at some point.

Nope, no other one currently. Perhaps someone can tak ea look at the firefox plugin and convert that to a php pull. :)

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update to fix the weather module

paddy_deburca commented 13 March 2005 at 15:23

Please see http://drupal.org/node/10528 for more information.

Paddy.

http://deburca.org, and http://amadain.net

Paddy.

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U.S. data

yelvington commented 13 March 2005 at 17:27

U.S. observation and forecast data is available in XML form from NOAA. That won't help you in other countries, though.

NOAA supports RSS 2.0 and its own XML format. The latter is better. I don't know how it relates to the format assumed by the weather module, but it's easy to parse with the PEAR XML Unserializer tool.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/data/current_obs/