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+/20*.png
+/20*.svg
+/24hrs.*
+/28days.*
+/6hrs.txt
+/7days.*
+/allmonths.txt
+/feed_*.xml
+/rose_*
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+Simple website for pywws data
+=============================
+
+In 2008, my dad got a WH1080 weather station. Soon after that I found [pywws](https://github.com/jim-easterbrook/pywws)
+and set everything up to post the data to [Weather Underground](https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IBRANDEN17).
+
+I also decided to set up a [simple homepage](http://fks.birth-online.de/) to
+play around with pywws' templating and graphing capabilities. This is the code
+for that homepage.