A weather plugin for sailors and boaters

Current weather at Kittery, Maine

updated every 5 minutes

TEMP71°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND13 MPH, SE

clear sky
Saturday forecast
TEMP72°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND13MPH, SSE

heavy intensity rain
Sunday forecast
TEMP63°F
WEATHERheavy intensity rain
WIND9MPH, SSW

light rain
Monday forecast
TEMP70°F
WEATHERlight rain
WIND15MPH, NW

clear sky
Tuesday forecast
TEMP61°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND10MPH, NNE

overcast clouds
Wednesday forecast
TEMP61°F
WEATHERovercast clouds
WIND11MPH, SSE

light rain
Thursday forecast
TEMP67°F
WEATHERlight rain
WIND14MPH, ENE

moderate rain
Friday forecast
TEMP61°F
WEATHERmoderate rain
WIND8MPH, E

overcast clouds
Saturday forecast
TEMP64°F
WEATHERovercast clouds
WIND9MPH, SSE

updated 12 September 2026 3:27 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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