Perhaps someone more knowledgeable could clarify, but perlmod seems to indicate that you can set the %SIG hash as a package variable, so you could do something like this:

use Weather::Com;
$Weather::Com::SIG{__DIE__} = sub { warn(@_) };
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I think that would cover every call to die() from within the Weather::Com package. Inspection of @_ within your new handler could let it die if something was really a big problem.

@_=qw;
Just another Perl hacker,;
;$_=q=print
"@_"= and eval;
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