16 Mar
2018
16 Mar
'18
1 p.m.
I think it is maybe NAVTEX or some ancestor of that. Somewhere there are still warnings
that the shipping forecast via the internet is not to be relied on: the one transmitted by
NAVTEX or equivalent is (as well as, perhaps, the voice one on LW), and that version
always gets out (well, if it doesn't it's because the Met Office is a
radioactive hole in the ground).
--tim
On 16 Mar 2018, at 09:51, Tony Finch
<dot(a)dotat.at> wrote:
Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
OK, I'll bite: how do you do this?
A script that massages the data from the Met Office Shipping Forecast and
prints it into a named pipe which my MUA reads from.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/data/CoreProductCache/ShippingForecast/L…
It's XML now, but when I started using this .sig the data looked like it
was coming from a system designed for distributing the forecast via telex.
(Radio telex to ships maybe?)
Tony.
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f.anthony.n.finch <dot(a)dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode
Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey: Southerly or southeasterly, 4 or 5 at first
in south Rockall, otherwise 6 to gale 8. Moderate in east Malin and east
Hebrides, otherwise rough or very rough, occasionally high at first in
Hebrides and Bailey. Rain at times. Moderate or good.