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SMS Weather for Kiev Ukraine and Cities Around the Globe

The “Mobile Weather” project was started back in 2001 when I was musing on ways of enriching my then simplest mobile phone with anything at all beyond voice function.
This post is just a renovation of the page originally written sometime in 2004 to answer most common question about SMS Weather Report formatting. The original page follows.

This is one of the cities’ 5-day Weather Reports sent out on 10/22/06
 by Top Cat to cell phones of the subscribed customers.

Kiev 7:00a
Fog 10 100%
SSW11k
Day_7:31_5:53
AM Showers 16/6
AM Showers 17/6
Tue P/clo 17/7
Wed lt.Rain 12/7
Thu scat.Showers 12/7

Also have a chance to get nostalgic! check out historic reports.

How to read reports

As a rule, report consists of the following lines:

  1. City name, time of current conditions snapshot (local time)
  2. Current conditions, temperature in Celsius degrees, humidity. “Temperature” has two parts: (1) actual temperature, (2) how much “Feels like” temp. differs from the actual temperature
  3. Wind direction and speed at the time of report
  4. Day’s verges (sunrise-sunset, 12 h time format, no am/pm signs)
  5. Weather forecast for today (conditions, high temp/low temp)
  6. Weather forecast for tomorrow
  7. Next 3 lines are Weather forecast for the last 3 days of the 5-day period reported

Notes.

  • Some lines may be missing from a report due to partial data unavailability.
  • Many operators (like “Kyivstar GSM” in Ukraine) do not
    transmit newline characters in SMS, instead they substitute plain space
    chars for them. This makes reports slightly less readable and yet even more
    displeasing – messes up the lines description given above.

Major abbreviations found in reports are as follows:

Abbr. Meaning
p/ partly/
t/storms Thunderstorms
scat. scattered
clo Cloudy
isol. Isolated
M/ Mostly
Earl early
SnShwrs Snow Showers



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Categories: Mobile / Telecoms
Tags: Kyivstar • mobile • promo • SMS
Published on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
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3 Responses to “SMS Weather for Kiev Ukraine and Cities Around the Globe”

  • 1
    vit
    October 30th, 2006 1:56pm

    how ty subscribe?

  • 2
    Alexander
    October 30th, 2006 2:51pm

    Please ask somebody who knows the developer personally.

    Thanks

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