Team A'Hearn

Pardon my “geek post” here, but after suffering through ridiculous amounts of confusion and mess, I have finally replaced the code that generates the weather information along the right pane of the website. Years ago I was simply scraping data from Weather Underground, but that was becoming unreliable. Then I switched to Yahoo! Weather, but found that their interpretation of “well-formed XML” is somewhat different from mine. Nerd attitude, I know.

I’ve now settled with a free affiliate subscription service with The Weather Channel’s XML Data Feed. It provides an enormous amount of detail and is not overly strict, giving me the ability to pick and choose which data I’d like to use. I have yet to work out all the bugs, but for now I’m happy. Please let me know if you see anything unusual.