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Bug 521650 - weather alerts
weather alerts
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: clock
2.21.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-10 19:31 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:20 UTC
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Description William Jon McCann 2008-03-10 19:31:13 UTC 
When there is a weather alert/emergency we should show it in a notification bubble.


At least for the US we can get this information from:
http://www.weather.gov/alerts/

For example,
http://www.weather.gov/alerts/wwarssget.php?zone=MAZ015

We already have the weather zone id in the Locations.xml file.
Comment 1 Pavel Šefránek 2008-04-26 21:56:15 UTC 
Related: bug 415242
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2008-05-19 20:43:37 UTC 
There's also an XML version, eg: http://www.weather.gov/alerts/ma.cap

The problem (with both formats) is, they don't reliably distinguish "Alert! We've updated our prediction of tomorrow's weather." from "Alert! There's a category 5 hurricane coming at you". The XML format actually has "severity" and "urgency" tags, but they always leave them set to "Unknown". :-/

We could cheat and just check the title of the alert though and ignore it if it's "Short Term Forecast".

And they'll probably fix this at some point in the future anyway...
Comment 3 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:20:29 UTC 
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