Want to get your local weather every morning (or evening, or whenever) on a podcast? Jorge Velazquez put together an automated weather podcast that can work for any location. Add this location to your podcast feeds:
http://www.jorgev.com/cgi-bin/weather.cgi?locid=77009
Replace 77009 with your local zip code, and presto, you’ll get a podcast feed with 3 audio clips: the current weather conditions, today’s forecast, and tomorrow’s forecast. Slick stuff.
I wish he hadn’t done this already, though. I thought of the concept this morning as I was walking the dog: I wanted to get an automated text-to-speech version of my weather so that I could know if I needed to put the top up on my Jeep. It’d be awfully convenient to have that knowledge first thing in the morning when I’m heading out the door to walk the dog. I mentally designed how I would pull it off, seeing as how I’d already used Weather.com’s web services in my company intranet. Then I got home, Googled to see if anybody else had done it before, and sure enough, Jorge had. Damn you, Jorge, damn you for depriving me of an excuse to build something! Hahaha.
Brent,
I’m glad you’re enjoying it! And thanks for the TrackBack. It was a fun project to build and I’m pleased to find out any time someone new is using it.
WOW, great minds think alike. We just added our local weather RSS feeds and are working on the same project. We have a very cool spin that will separate us from the standard text to speach feature. I gotta say its a cool time to be alive. SO many interesting things are comming out of RSS feeds, social networking, blogs, etc…
I have not tried the podcast but Kudo’s to being the first. If you have any wise works please contact me, i am loosing more hair on this one… 