{"id":135,"date":"2004-06-16T00:18:22","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T04:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=135"},"modified":"2004-06-16T00:18:22","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T04:18:22","slug":"weather-forecasts-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/travel\/weather-forecasts-for-europe","title":{"rendered":"Weather Forecasts for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re getting closer to leaving for our trip to Zurich,Tecknau, Lucerne, Lugano, Venice, Guarda, and Reinach. It looks like its going to be fun and naturally we&#8217;re interested in getting weather forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>Getting a weather forecast for the major cities is relatively easy. Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\">Weather Underground<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/weather.com\">Weather.com<\/a>. Even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/world\/\">BBC weather spot<\/a> only gives information about major cities: you can find the weather forecast for Zurich but not for Lucerne. One thing these sites have is that you can get the temperature in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.uu.se\/history\/Celsius_eng.html\">Celsius<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/chem.oswego.edu\/chem209\/Misc\/fahrenheit.htm\">Fahrenheit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s nice, but I still can&#8217;t use these to get the 5-day forecast for Lucerne, Guarda, and lots of other places in Switzerland. Until, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetter.com\">Wetter.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s great. You search by the town&#8217;s name and you  get a 5-day forecast. There are a couple of drawbacks &#8211; the temperature is in Celsius and everything is written in German. The site provides lots of forecasts,  and I&#8217;ve had the chance to learn the German term for precipitation &#8211; Niederschlag.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re getting closer to leaving for our trip to Zurich,Tecknau, Lucerne, Lugano, Venice, Guarda, and Reinach. It looks like its going to be fun and naturally we&#8217;re interested in getting weather forecasts. Getting a weather forecast for the major cities is relatively easy. Take a look at Weather Underground or Weather.com. Even the BBC weather [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}