A weather plugin for sailors and boaters

Current weather at Kittery, Maine

updated every 5 minutes

TEMP85°F
WEATHERbroken clouds
WIND7 MPH, NW

broken clouds
Tuesday forecast
TEMP85°F
WEATHERbroken clouds
WIND11MPH, ESE

clear sky
Wednesday forecast
TEMP80°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND15MPH, SSE

light rain
Thursday forecast
TEMP75°F
WEATHERlight rain
WIND13MPH, S

few clouds
Friday forecast
TEMP74°F
WEATHERfew clouds
WIND14MPH, WNW

clear sky
Saturday forecast
TEMP70°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND11MPH, SSE

moderate rain
Sunday forecast
TEMP75°F
WEATHERmoderate rain
WIND11MPH, ESE

moderate rain
Monday forecast
TEMP66°F
WEATHERmoderate rain
WIND11MPH, S

clear sky
Tuesday forecast
TEMP68°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND11MPH, SE

updated 15 July 2025 11:37 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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