On 29/5/21 2:32 am, Greg Marks wrote:
I have three small questions about the MATE application Weather Report,
version 1.20.3, the MATE panel application for monitoring local weather
conditions.
1. Is there a way to set the default size of the Weather Report window?
The preset default seems to be 58 characters, which is slightly smaller
than the length of the lines in the Forecast tab.
2. Is there a package containing all icons for Weather Report?
For some conditions, such as "broken clouds," no icon is displayed in
the panel. Various weather icons seem to be installed in subdirectories
of /usr/share/icons/mate, but some conditions appear not to be included
among the icons.
3. In the preferences, "enable radar map" never seems to show anything
under the Radar Map tab. The manual says that Weather Report downloads
radar maps from www.weather.com, which seems to be a URL for The Weather
Channel, and one must do a bit of searching on that site to find radar
maps. Can one fix this by selecting "Use custom address for radar map"
in preferences, and if so, what URL should one enter for U.S. radar maps?
Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with
a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/.
Setting "Use custom address for radar map" to https://www.livewxradar.com
does not solve the problem; still nothing shows up in the Radar Map tab
of Weather Report.
Best regards,
Greg Marks
I do not know whether this will provide what you want, but, in a web
browser, you might be interested in going to wunderground.com, and,
following the link to their wundermap, then, zooming in to your
location; right down to suburb/location level; even, to street/road level.
Then, go to the dashboard for each of the closest three weather
stations, and select the one that seems most appropriate.. Also, looking
at the weather forecast options available, for the particular weather
station, is interesting; forecast for the next ten days, or, for each
hour of the current or next day.
I hope that this is helpful.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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