[Zope] ZWeather strategy

[Tim Wilson]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a portal-like site and I'd like to display the current
weather conditions on the main page. There are hundreds of stations in the
U.S. (don't know about the rest of the world) that have the current
weather as part of the METAR system of the National Weather Service. The
reports can be retrieved from http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml
or by anonymous ftp at ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar In
either case you need to know the 4-letter ICAO code for your location.

Can anyone recommend a strategy for this task? Some external method that
goes out and grabs the latest weather codes perhaps? ZClient? I would
really appreciate a suggestion. I'm still a Zope and Python newbie, and I
figure this would be a good problem to work on. Thanks.

-Tim

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