From: Hans  Fugal <fugalh@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T15:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby WX (weather)



On Jan 26, 3:58 pm, Henry Maddocks <hen...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> I would have thought knowing if it is overcast, clear, scattered
> cloud etc is something a non weather geek would be into. But then I
> used to work for a weather company so maybe that makes me a wx geek.

Maybe it does, but you're right. I was thinking of the difference
between CLR and SKC, which is more than most people will care about. If
you say "the weatherman says it's clear" and the sky is clear with a
few scattered clouds above 12000 feet, they just figure the weatherman
got it wrong again, or that their definition of clear is  different,
and they don't think twice.

In any case, the soon-to-be-implemented human-readable format (and the
already-implemented aliases) will solve that. I'm glad to have got a
lot of feedback, it's encouraging.