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'Weather for Olisipo'

Olisipo?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olisipo says '... the ancient name of modern-day Lisbon while part of the Roman Empire.'

Aha, learned something new today! Strange that it gives me a name that was used two thousand years ago? What service is used to convert ip addresses to geo location?

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It also used a 14th century name that was from the byzantine era for where it (wrongly) guessed me to be, and then the Malaysian name for my city (not Malaysia) once I actually entered the correct name for where I am, so the geolocation is more than a bit wonky I guess...

That, plus it thinks 12C is shorts weather!

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