-
-The forecasts can be located starting from
-http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/city/ (choose the
-state abbreviation to get to a list of cities in that state).
-
-
-4. I live outside the USA--can this be made to work for me
-anyway?
-
-If you have any recommendations for similar forecast data in
-other countries, I will be happy to try and find a way to
-integrate it into the weather utility, but I suspect that some
-serious modification would be necessary given that the data is
-likely to be published in a non-English language, requiring some
-additional input from speakers of that language for how to handle
-filtering and formatting of the text.
-
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+As of the 2.0 release, this is no longer necessary. In Spring of 2011
+the NWS switched away from city-named forecast zone IDs to the numeric
+state zone IDs also used for alerts. As a result, weather now comes with
+pregenerated correlations between airports/stations and zones along with
+USA Census (FIPS and ZCTA/ZIP code) and global latitude,longitude
+coordinates and can search among them in a flexible and intuitive
+manner. See the weather(1) manual for examples.
+
+4. I live outside the USA--can this be made to work for me anyway?
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+ICAO codes for METAR stations can be found for cities and airports
+worldwide, but forecast and alert data is harder to come by. If you have
+any recommendations of plaintext data for other countries available in a
+format like NOAA's, I will be happy to start incorporating it into the
+weather utility. If the data is published in a non-English language,
+I'll require some additional input from speakers of that language for
+how to handle filtering and formatting of the text.