{"id":12311,"date":"2006-11-09T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/quick-weather-url\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T23:09:00","slug":"quick-weather-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/quick-weather-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Weather URL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Lifehacker<\/i> posted a pretty neat tip about getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com\/software\/shortcuts\/quickie-weather-url-213098.php\" target=\"_blank\">quick weather forecast<\/a>.  The link weather.gov\/#####, where ##### is your ZIP code, goes to the <acronym title=\"National Oceanic &amp; Atmospheric Administration\">NOAA<\/acronym> weather forecast for that ZIP code.  This handy URL makes it easy to bookmark a forecast for your city, and it is also a prime candidate for a custom Firefox keyword bookmarklet.  To create one, open your Bookmarks menu and add a new bookmark.  Add these entries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code><strong>Name:<\/strong> NOAA Weather<\/code> \u00a0[my choice; call it whatever you want]<\/li>\n<li><code><strong>Location:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/weather.gov\/%s\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/weather.gov\/%s<\/a><\/code><\/li>\n<li><code><strong>Keyword:<\/strong> wx<\/code> \u00a0[my choice; use whatever you want]<\/li>\n<li><code><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/code> \u00a0[optional]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you add that bookmark, to get weather for any ZIP code, just type &ldquo;wx 20657&rdquo; for this example (substitute wx for whichever keyword you chose).  Very cool&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I use the Firefox keyword bookmarklet method for many other sites, including dictionary, thesaurus, acronym, <acronym title=\"Internet Movie DataBase\">IMDB<\/acronym> searches.  I&rsquo;d be happy to detail those if there&rsquo;s any interest; let me know in the comments&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/weather\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">weather<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/www\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">www<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/firefox\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">firefox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/howto\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">howto<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-116308639549790557?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifehacker posted a pretty neat tip about getting a quick weather forecast. The link weather.gov\/#####, where ##### is your ZIP code, goes to the NOAA weather forecast for that ZIP code. This handy URL makes it easy to bookmark a forecast for your city, and it is also a prime candidate for a custom Firefox &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/quick-weather-url\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quick Weather URL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}