I’ve just signed up for 30 Boxes and whilst exploring the features noticed it has the ability to display your local weather to your buddies. As with a lot of applications I’ve encountered they prompt for a US zip code thereby giving the impression that only US weather can be displayed. However, in most cases you can also enter a code for other cities around the world. To get the code for your city try the following:
- Go to the weather.com World Search.
- Find and display the weather for your city.
- Now look at the URL for the page. After /local/ you should see a code that looks something like this UKXX0215.
- Copy the code and paste it into the Your Weather field on 30 Boxes.
With a bit of luck it will have found your local (non-US) city.
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Very useful !
By: Il Fr@ on February 7, 2006
at 10:56 am
very useful, but how to change F to C (Celcium) degrees ?
By: eu user on February 7, 2006
at 3:30 pm
Celcium? No such thing. Celsius? Try here:
http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm
By: US User on February 7, 2006
at 10:41 pm
Doesn’t seem to work for Toronto. yahoo returns an HTML file from CAXX0504.
When i grab the RSS feed from the page:
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0504&u=f
It works perfect. But I want degress Celsius:
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0504&u=c
And that doesn’t work. 30 Boxes doesn’t like that feed for some reason.
By: Justin on February 10, 2006
at 5:59 pm
Thank you it works perfect in Barcelona, Spain in Celsius, just tipe: http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=SPXX0015&u=c and it’s ok
By: Albert on February 12, 2006
at 10:36 pm
Works great for the UK – thanks very much for the tip!
By: Andrew on February 14, 2006
at 3:10 pm
Not for Southampton
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX0138&u=f
It pulls some weather data in, but for somewhere else other than Southampton.
By: Rich on June 7, 2006
at 11:14 am