applying outstanding patches

This fork has the following patches applied (still outstanding in bcbcarl/emacs-wttrin):
- patch for selecting the unit system: bcbcarl#10
- patch for url request to return ascii rather than html bcbcarl#18
- patch to use https instead of http: bcbcarl#15

README.md

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 
 Emacs frontend for weather web service [wttr.in].
 
+This fork has the following patches applied (still outstanding in bcbcarl/emacs-wttrin): 
+- patch for selecting the unit system: https://github.com/bcbcarl/emacs-wttrin/pull/10
+- patch for url request to return ascii rather than html https://github.com/bcbcarl/emacs-wttrin/pull/18
+- patch to use https instead of http: https://github.com/bcbcarl/emacs-wttrin/pull/15
+
 ## Usage
 
 Set a default cities list for completion:
@@ -20,7 +25,11 @@ You can also specify default HTTP request Header for Accept-Language:
 ```elisp
 (setq wttrin-default-accept-language '("Accept-Language" . "zh-TW"))
 ```
+As well as the unit system, "m" for metric and "u" for USCS/imperial (the default is to choose based on your location):
 
+```elisp
+(setq wttrin-unit-system "m")
+```
 Then run `M-x wttrin` to get the information.
 
 When the weather is displayed you can press `q` to quit the buffer or `g` to query for another city.

wttrin.el

@@ -33,13 +33,26 @@
   :type '(list)
   )
 
+(defcustom wttrin-unit-system nil
+  "Specify the units.  use 'm' for 'metric', 'u' for 'USCS, or
+nil for location based units (the default)"
+  :group 'wttrin
+  :type 'string
+  )
+
+(defun wttrin-additional-url-params ()
+  "Concatenate any extra stuff into the URL here."
+  (concat "?" wttrin-unit-system)
+  )
+
+
 (defun wttrin-fetch-raw-string (query)
   "Get the weather information based on your QUERY."
   (let ((url-user-agent "curl"))
     (add-to-list 'url-request-extra-headers wttrin-default-accept-language)
     (with-current-buffer
         (url-retrieve-synchronously
-         (concat "https://wttr.in/" query "?A")
+	 (concat "http://wttr.in/" query (wttrin-additional-url-params))
          (lambda (status) (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer))))
       (decode-coding-string (buffer-string) 'utf-8))))