On Fri February 8 2008, Frank Cox wrote: > Having once again noticed that there is an "extreme cold" weather warning > issued for my area for this afternoon and tonight (dropping to -52 degrees > in the next few hours, apparently), it occurs to me that it would be very > handy to be able to get a pop-up notification of weather warnings on my > desktop. > > I use the gnome weather applet, but to the best of my current knowledge it > doesn't have the capability of automatically reporting weather warnings. > > Is there something else that can do that? Have you tried adding the ForecastFox plugin to Firefox. It does exactly what you describe you want, but does require that you keep Firefox open. Extreme alerts pop up from the Systray - others appear in the Firefox toolbar where you've configured ForecastFox to display its info. Not sure whether this will work in Canada, tho - it's based on calls to Accuweather but worth checking out. I especially like the radar image display - hover over it and it instantly pops up a regional map of current radar conditions - you can configure the image to be quite large, a big plus for my aging eyes. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
