[Xastir] Severe WX polygons?

[Rick Green]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Tom Russo wrote:

> These are probably multiline weather objects sent out by the NWS.  You need to
> find the object that's associated with the polygon and get its station
> information.  There will be a "Fetch NWS alert" button on its station info
> page.  The objects usually have a name that is six characters long and begins
> with your local NWS office abbreviation.

Thanks.  On the north side of Detroit, there's an icon labelled DTX_OUTLK, 
and I was able to fetch the current non-alert from them.  Next time I see 
one of those yellow polygons, I'll look there.

-- 
Rick Green

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