You have proven it can be done. Now I'll have to try it again, and probably in another browser and certainly after dumping caches in Safari.
Once again, I don't understand what is different about a "permalink" except that it should, usually, be to a url that doesn't change. In other words, "permanent".
The only difference between your two links I see is that you omitted "
&obs=true&obs_type=weather&elements=temp,wind,gust&obs_popup=true&obs_density=1" in the "permalink". The base url is exactly the same, all we're changing is the "
GET" data for their server.
Giving it less seems to work almost as well, but one has to click the "Surface Weather Observations" box to see any data. Makes sense, since the "permalink" leaves out the "
&obs_type" (weather) and the "
&elements" (temp,wind,gust).
BTW, the thing that is somewhat difficult to see, literally, is the data table. The "
Table data available below" is
not a link.
It is simply telling the viewer to scroll down the page... where the data table is displayed. If you are observent, you will notice the scroll bar thumb (which I have set to always display) will suddenly become shortened. That's the "GUI" clue that the page is now much, much taller than before. In
my perfect world, that text would be a link.