Finding out weather conditions from the command line

In this post, I outline an approach for retrieving weather conditions from the command line. There are websites and widgets that provide weather details but I like using the command line because I find that it’s more efficient than pointing and clicking on stuff. In addition, this approach enables us to program specific tasks. For…

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Plotting weather data using R

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology provides historical weather data, some of which can be freely downloaded. In this blog post, I will plot the weather data collected at two weather stations in Brisbane: the Brisbane Regional Office weather station (latitude 27.466 degrees south, longitude 153.0270 degrees east, and elevation of 38 metres) with data available…

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