xfce4-weather-plugin reports temperature that is too cold by several degrees

[Mike Hicks]

The XFCE weather plugin (xfce4-weather-plugin) uses data from apicache.met.no to report weather from around the world. Unfortunately, that site incorrectly reports temperature for my nearest location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Currently, the applet reports a temperature of -1 degree Fahrenheit (-18 degrees C). However, the National Weather Service site for Minneapolis (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mpx/) reports a temperature of 10 degrees F (-12 degrees C).

I'm not entirely sure how the met.no site works, but it appears to use the output of a computational model to report weather information rather than reporting real-world observations. In my opinion, the applet should use real observations for showing the current temperature and other data.

[mike@3po][~]$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
[mike@3po][~]$ apt-cache policy xfce4-weather-plugin
xfce4-weather-plugin:
  Installed: 0.8.3-1ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 0.8.3-1ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.3-1ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.8.3-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
[mike@3po][~]$

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/Xfce. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

Is this still the case?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xfce4-weather-plugin (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]