Re: Local audio weather forecasts

["noel" <noel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Tim, would you be willing to share your script?!

I found a two minute hourly Sky news feed http://skyscape.sky.com/skynewsradio/RADIO/news.mp3
 which worked great for me this morning, set a timer for two minutes in
applescript and it then moved to music.

So just the weather that I've got to crack! :)

Out of interest, how do you run the perl script? (I know nothing about
Perl!)

Thanks

Noel


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Tim Ramsdale <tim@...> wrote:
>
> So - the solution I came up with was to parse the BBC RSS local
weather feed
> with a perl script, and then 'translate' this into a weather report
which I
> use my mac to read out to me when I come downstairs. Since I know the
> 'translation' - e.g. 'very windy' means it is >15mph winds, 'brass
monkeys'
> means it froze to -5 overnight and the like, it actually works quite
well
> (for me).
>
> There used to be a great 1min audio news stream available from the
BBC, but
> the link stopped working a few months ago and I haven't found where it
went
> (despite searching).
>
> T.
>
> 2009/11/10 noel <noel@...>
>
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone know any online sources of short local weather
forecasts that
> > can either be streamed or downloaded on a daily basis?
> >
> > I've got the beginnings of automated music/sound being played
when I get
> > up, move around, in the shower etc and weather/news is something
I'd quite
> > like to have first thing in the morning.
> >
> > Have googled but not finding a lot.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Noel
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> --
> Tim Ramsdale.
>
>
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