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Re: Recorded Weather Forecast for New York City?

Scott Norwood (snorwood@redballoon.net)
Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:14:23 UTC

In article <telecom24.468.8@telecom-digest.org>, George Mitchell
<george@m5p.com> wrote:

> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

>> There used to be a recorded weather forecast for New York at
>> 212-976-1212. Westchester County had 914-976-1212.

> Most of the northeast except Connecticut used 936 for the weather, not
> 976, as I remember (though my memory is not what it was). 976 first
> came into use in the late 1970s for phone sex -- excuse me, value-added
> information services.

True.

In Boston, at least, the Weather has been 617-936-xxxx (where xxxx can
be replaced wth any four digits) since at least the mid-1980s (and
probably much earlier) through the present. The Time number here is
617-637-xxxx (can be reached as 617-NERVOUS).

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