I have heard that there's weather information available through the "finger" service. What's out there and how can I find it?

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7.37. I have heard that there's weather information available through the "finger" service. What's out there and how can I find it?

The best place to find this information is by getting your own copy of the slick "fingerinfo" program that Scott Yanoff wrote. Use FTP to connect to the host csd4.csd.uwm.edu, and then get the file /pub/fingerinfo. When you run this script, here's what you see:

                     * Welcome to FingerInfo v2.6 *
                          (C) 1994 Scott Yanoff


 [A] Auroral Activity                     [N] MnM/Coke Machine at CMU
 [B] 3-Hour Solar and Geophysical Report  [O] Coke Machine in CS House at
RIT
 [C] Daily Solar and Geophysical Report   [P] Graph of soda at RIT
 [D] List of Periodic Postings to Usenet  [Q] Cyber-Sleaze Daily Report
 [E] Billboard Charts                     [R] Code of the Geeks
 [F] DataBases via Finger                 [S] U.S. Weather Info Menu
 [G] Earthquake Info Menu                 [T] Almanac Info/Sports
Schedules
 [H] NASA Headline News                   [U] Nova U's Grad. Catalog
 [I] Nielsen TV Ratings                   [V] Baseball Scores/Standings
 [J] Wisconsin Scores/Standings           [W] NFL Scores/Standings
 [K] Tropical Storm Forecast              [X] NFL Line Spread
 [L] Remote Andrew Demo Service for X     [Y] Weekly Trivia
 [M] Cable Regulation Digest              [Z] Most Powerful Computing
Sites
 [1] Seattle Radio News & Information     [2] Random talk.bizarre
Stories
 [3] Paul's Hottub                        [4] ASCII Art FAQ

Please select one of the above (or return to quit): "

I choose s for weather, and see

                      * Welcome to U.S. WeatherInfo *
                          (C) 1994 Scott A. Yanoff


 [A] Local Forecast (Milwaukee) - includes storm reports
 [B] Wisconsin State Forecast
 [C] Wisconsin Summary (statewide)
 [D] Climate Info for Today & Yesterday - hi/lo/normal,
sunrise/sunset
 [E] Weather Info for Wisconsin Cities
 [F] Wisconsin Precipitation Map
 [G] Wisconsin Wind Map
 [H] Wisconsin Temperatures Map
 [I] Wisconsin Radar Map

 [J] Detroit Forecast
 [K] Colorado Forecast
 [L] Indiana Forecast/Bloomington Weather
 [M] Washington Forecast
 [N] Alabama/Auburn Forecast
 [O] Pensacola, FL Forecast
 [P] Youngstown, OH and Vicinity Forecast
 [Q] Oregon Forecast

Please select one of the above (or return to go back):

To see the weather forecast for Detroit, for example, I enter j and find out that it's cool, but not too bad.

SHORT TERM FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT MI
1025 PM EDT SUN APR 10 1994

SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLEAR OVERNIGHT WITH LOW TEMPERATURES FALLING TO AROUND

30 TO THE LOWER 30S. WINDS ALONG LAKE ERIE WILL BE LIGHT FROM THE
SOUTHEAST... 
OTHERWISE WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT NORTHEAST. SOME LOW TEMPERATURES WILL BE
29 
AT PONTIAC AND PORT HURON...31 AT DETROIT AND ANN ARBOR...AND 33 AT
ADRIAN.

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