PeterGV wrote: 
> Brilliant, *tcutting*.  Absolutely wonderful job.  Bravo for your
> service to the community and thank you!
> 
> It's cool that you wrote this with no additional libraries, either. 
> Makes it super-easy to install/use.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but people should be aware that there
> are *two* requests made for each period.  One for "conditions" and other
> for "10dayforecast" -- so, you don't want to update your wx info any
> more frequently than once ever seven minutes or so, or you'll hit the
> free limit of your API.  I'm currently using a forecast interval of 10
> minutes with *tcutting*'s code.
> 
> Note that you can see the API data (how frequently you've invoked the
> API) on the Wunderground API page.
> 
> Anyone who's interested in advancing *tcutting*'s work, in case you're
> not aware, you can combine multiple requests into one as follows:
> 
> 
http://api.wunderground.com/api/<key>/conditions/forecast10day/q/03057.json
> 
> I've been assuming this counts as one API invocation (because it's all
> done in one call) for the purposes of metering... but I'm not certain.
> 
> Now that *tcutting *has blessed us with a short-term solution that meets
> many of my requirements, I'm going to chill about this for a while. 
> Then I'll determine whether I help advance *tcutting*'s work to date, or
> continue down my own path (which is *significantly* more disruptive to
> the structure of Greg's original code).
> 
> One final time for now: Thank you *tcutting*.  Thanks for your work on
> this problem, and thanks for sharing.

I realized late that you can combine multiple "feature" queries into
single call. That's an obvious area for improvement. I was worried about
the number of queries per day.

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