A weather plugin for sailors and boaters

Current weather at Kittery, Maine

updated every 5 minutes

TEMP22°F
WEATHERbroken clouds
WIND7 MPH, SW

snow
Saturday forecast
TEMP28°F
WEATHERsnow
WIND13MPH, W

snow
Sunday forecast
TEMP28°F
WEATHERsnow
WIND16MPH, N

clear sky
Monday forecast
TEMP24°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND19MPH, WNW

light snow
Tuesday forecast
TEMP23°F
WEATHERlight snow
WIND14MPH, W

broken clouds
Wednesday forecast
TEMP18°F
WEATHERbroken clouds
WIND9MPH, N

rain and snow
Thursday forecast
TEMP31°F
WEATHERrain and snow
WIND21MPH, SE

light snow
Friday forecast
TEMP30°F
WEATHERlight snow
WIND23MPH, WNW

light snow
Saturday forecast
TEMP16°F
WEATHERlight snow
WIND16MPH, WNW

updated 8 February 2025 3:43 AM

I made a nice little weather plugin for WordPress. It was a trade-in-kind project I did for the Salem Willows Yacht Club, and you can see it on their site (and on this post). It displays wind velocity and direction in addition to the general weather condition.

The plugin gets data from the awesome OpenWeather API. Because it caches the requests for data, it can’t call for updates more frequently than every five minutes. This keeps it in the free tier. The codebase is here: github.com/photocurio/peter-weather-shortcodes.

The plugin also displays Small Craft Advisories, Storm Warnings, etc, prominently on the front page.

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