NWS Tabular Weather Forecast
— Last update Oct 21, 2009 — Installed 34 times.|
Script Summary:
Enhances the National Weather Service Tabular (hourly, 2-day) Weather Forecast page. |
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The NWS Tabular Forecast gives hourly information on numerous weather conditions. Its advantage is that it does this in a compact space with a minimum of extraneous material. Its disadvantage is that it is not well laid out. I used Platypus to clean it up to my liking.
[If you are unfamiliar with the NWS forecast start here: http://forecast.weather.gov/zipcity.php . Enter your city and state or zip code. If you are satisfied with the 7-day forecast for your area, you may wish to stop here. To get a look at the 48-hour, hourly tabular forecast, click Tabular Forecast, which appears in the striped box at the lower right of the page. I use my bookmarks -- not this script -- to open 3 tabs simultaneously: the main forecast, the tabular forecast and the radar loop.
IMPORTANT: This script depends on the following items -- and only the following items -- being selected when you Show Menu on the NWS Tabular page: Temperature, Surface Wind (mph), Sky Coverage, Precipitation Potential, Relative Humidity. (Also available but not selected are Thunder, Rain, Snow, Freezing Rain, Sleet, Wind Chill and Dew Point, which I found trivial or redundant of other measures.) After you have made your selection by clicking Submit, you can click Hide Menu.
The script performs the following functions:
* Adds the day of the week to the date lines
* Fixes row headings to equalize row heights due to wrapping
* Equalizes column widths
* Adjusts the font size to something in between the small and medium fonts offered
* Reorders the rows so that they make better sense to me.
