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NO NO NO to UK i want US weather site
cly
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I've a great interest in storm chasing and for years have used the excellent and famous 'The Weather Channel' weather.com site that is based in the US and is mainly concerned with the US, but also covers severe weather globally. I've got many friends in America too
As of today no matter what i do i keep getting taken to a UK version. OMG! useless and of no interest to me. I even click USA at the bottom of the page where it lists international sites but it takes me to the UK page.
The UK has no interest for me we don't have hurricanes and tornados etc.
Does anyone know if i can use the hosts file to redirect any attempt at taking me to the UK page and force it to the US one? I know how to block a site in the hosts file but not how to do what i ask above.
As of today no matter what i do i keep getting taken to a UK version. OMG! useless and of no interest to me. I even click USA at the bottom of the page where it lists international sites but it takes me to the UK page.
The UK has no interest for me we don't have hurricanes and tornados etc.
Does anyone know if i can use the hosts file to redirect any attempt at taking me to the UK page and force it to the US one? I know how to block a site in the hosts file but not how to do what i ask above.
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http://www.weather.com/weather/today/USFL0372:1
Are you doing anything odd with cookies?
No.
I can get to bookmarked 'sub' url's but not the important home page.
Please can you see what happens if you try
http://www.weather.com
Click that.
Goes to UK page as does the International Sites option at the bottom of the page.
Ok i was overlooking the wording and indeed if i click on "Weather in English (United States)" it then goes to the American version.
But what a nuisance that i'll have to do that every time i want the home (US) page pulling up. I have a html page scripted on my computer that has severe weather related sites and media and not being able to script in a hard link is annoying.
The original link i've got coded and the link it eventually ends up at after redirecting initially to the UK page is the simple 'www.weather.com'. I'll have to have a look into the source code and use F12 in IE, Google Chrome and Firefox to see if i can spot a url that takes me direct to the US page. Or maybe URL Snooper, Ping Plotter or Windows Power Shell might help me out.
http://www.weather.com/life/profile
Add the USA location as your profile?
Yeah, same here.
Depends if you want to forecast the storms for yourself or just get someone to tell you where they might be!
Thanks for the tip but i've got absolutely everything set up for severe weather spells.
I've scripted two html pages on my computer and written batch files etc. The weather site main page is just a link. I have emergency service and rescue scanners, maps, a myriad of radars and meteorology both near to ground and high in the atmosphere, live streaming video and audio from storm chaser cars etc all open up.
Local online US TV stations and local media sites generally plus social media for any given locality are all available at the press of a key. As for the weather site i have ALL their maps open up on a single page (resized) plus other data from around the internet both government, commercial and private.
I've even embedded Google and Wikipedia searches plus other similar sites search boxes such as the 'Time & Date' sites ones at the top of the page.
Basically, all i need to correct the situation is to be able to save a bookmark for the main USA weather page - as in one that doesn't divert to the UK one. All the sub pages and maps still work, but not the home page.
Their aircraft & crew featured on an episode of Great Planes on Yesterday the other day. It might still be on Sky on demand.
I tried by hook and by crook but the problem is it's picking up my UK ip address. I reckon that if you find a public proxy based in the USA that would solve the problem...but I'll let you do it!
Anything with a url after the main home page address i'll already have linked to. Like i say it's the basic raw url of the home page i need to bookmark.
WIsh you hadn't done that, but pleased to hear you're ok. I wouldn't lower my security setting to test anything to be honest.
Yeah i realize the problem is that it's acting on the UK url but there are often ways around that without the 'dangers' inherent in using a proxy.
For example, some geographical restrictions can be worked around by the stunningly simple trick of visiting it through Google Translate or accessing it via various search sites or other portals and once you are in you are in.
Come to think of it i may try the Google Translate or via another third party way after. You just set up the url for Translate/whatever and append the various parameters that get attached as if doing a search through them.
UPDATE
Google Translate seems to have come on a lot since i last used that method years ago. It now tells you the page is already in English, or if starting off from say the German home page it does show it in English but also starts of with the UK map ouch lol. Haven't got time right now to try other ways but i not given up.
Incidentally i have contacted them and instead of just an automated reply have had my request passed on further up the chain at Weather.com.
I still wonder if the easiest method will be if i can use the hosts file and somehow redirect the uk.weather.com to the US home page.
Yeah but......do you have a solution to trying to avoid multiple steps to get to the US homepage?