FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WEATHER UTILITY
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4. I live outside the USA--can this be made to work for me
anyway?
-If you have any recommendations for similar forecast data in
-other countries, I will be happy to try and find a way to
+METAR station IDs can be found for cities and airports worldwide,
+but forecast data is harder to come by. If you have any
+recommendations of forecast data for other countries available in a
+format like NOAA's, I will be happy to try and find a way to
integrate it into the weather utility, but I suspect that some
serious modification would be necessary given that the data is
likely to be published in a non-English language, requiring some
only tells weather(1) what current conditions to retrieve. If you
specify -f or --forecast on the command line (or forecast=True in
an alias) without providing a city name and state abbreviation
-(-c/--city and -s/--st, or city and st in an alias), you will
-instead see the forecast for the built-in default location (or the
-city and st defined in the default alias, if you have one). See
-question 3 above for information on figuring out what city name and
-state abbreviation to use, and the manual for weatherrc(5) for
-information on defining aliases.
-
+(-c/--city and -s/--st, or city and st in an alias) and are seeing
+an actual forecast, then you probably have a default city and state
+abbreviation set in your config. See question 3 above for
+information on figuring out what city name and state abbreviation
+to use, and the manual for weatherrc(5) for information on defining
+aliases.
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