Tony Yarusso's Blog

Dear lazywebs,
I'm looking for a way to constantly be updated on the latest weather forecasts for a particular date and location. I've found lots of things for tracking the current weather, but not as much for forecasts, and nothing that can be configured to track specific dates. The deal is that I'm planning a night sky viewing event, and want to be kept posted about cloud cover levels. (I really don't care about temperature, humidity, pressure, and that sort of thing - just cloud cover and chance of precipitation.) I am looking to track three consecutive nights (August 10/11, 11/12, and 12/13). Ideally, I'd like something that will monitor multiple sources (eg. Weather.com, AccuWeather.com, NOAA), and let me know whenever they post updated information. Something that could be notify me via IM or my Supybot on IRC (which can handle RSS feeds, btw) would be great, although desktop popups or background changes similar to weather-wallpaper would be acceptable. Even e-mail would work - I just want to know as much data as possible as soon as it's available. Checking the various web sites each day manually and navigating to the appropriate section of their long-term forecast works, but is clumsy and time-consuming, so something that could cut a few steps out would be very handy. I should note that the location is in the US. Anyone have ideas?