I make a printable weather flyer page to help promote my weather site to locals.
http://www.642weather.com/weather/local-flier.php
The page is specially formatted to be printed as a flier (flyer). All the pertinent weather data should fit on one page. To see how it would look printed, click on “print preview” in your web browser. The flier may be freely used by local hotels, motels, restaurants, businesses, and local government offices to pin on bulletin boards or distribute to their patrons.
I have been posting it at the post office bulletin board every morning for a week.
This morning I got an email from a local resident:
“What a fantastic weather site!. I saw your weather flyer the other day at the post office and was curious as to the source of the data…
…Thanks for your efforts. I have seen a lot of weather sites. Yours is the most complete!”
The page uses many of the contributions from this site’s users: carter lake templates, NWS RSS Forecast with icons, NWS Forecast Discussion, and NOAA RSS Advisories.
I use some of my own custom modifications to the script output to make it all fit perfectly on one printable page.
Carterlake Plugin Page - Printable Weather Flyer
Version: 1.12 - 06-Nov-2009
- Fixed forecast discussion for Louisville, KY zone.
Version: 1.10 - 13-Oct-2009
- Fixed forecast discussion had stopped working in some zones.
Version: 1.08 - 07-Oct-2009
- changed the included advisory file from rss-advisory.php to atom-advisory.php
Version: 1.07 - 31-Jul-2009
- much improved forecast discussion fetching for the wxflyer.php
Version: 1.06 - 04-Jul-2009
- fix for forecast discussion in Peachtree City GA
- added - wxflyer-uk.php contributed by Martin (Budgie) from http://www.hebwx.co.uk/wxflyer.php
rss-advisory.php must be at version V2.00 06-Jun-2009 BETA .022 or higher
Download:
www.642weather.com/weather/scripts/wxflyer.zip
Look at the readme.txt inside the zip file for instructions.