A weather plugin for sailors and boaters

Current weather at Kittery, Maine

updated every 5 minutes

TEMP49°F
WEATHERovercast clouds
WIND8 MPH, NE

heavy intensity rain
Thursday forecast
TEMP61°F
WEATHERheavy intensity rain
WIND13MPH, ESE

light rain
Friday forecast
TEMP52°F
WEATHERlight rain
WIND16MPH, NE

scattered clouds
Saturday forecast
TEMP65°F
WEATHERscattered clouds
WIND13MPH, SW

clear sky
Sunday forecast
TEMP73°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND12MPH, WNW

overcast clouds
Monday forecast
TEMP57°F
WEATHERovercast clouds
WIND14MPH, SSE

scattered clouds
Tuesday forecast
TEMP75°F
WEATHERscattered clouds
WIND11MPH, WSW

moderate rain
Wednesday forecast
TEMP80°F
WEATHERmoderate rain
WIND21MPH, WNW

overcast clouds
Thursday forecast
TEMP62°F
WEATHERovercast clouds
WIND13MPH, W

updated 14 May 2026 11:22 PM

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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