A weather plugin for sailors and boaters

Current weather at Kittery, Maine

updated every 5 minutes

TEMP39°F
WEATHERmoderate rain
WIND9 MPH, NNE

heavy intensity rain
Monday forecast
TEMP37°F
WEATHERheavy intensity rain
WIND15MPH, SSE

scattered clouds
Tuesday forecast
TEMP43°F
WEATHERscattered clouds
WIND15MPH, W

few clouds
Wednesday forecast
TEMP43°F
WEATHERfew clouds
WIND14MPH, W

clear sky
Thursday forecast
TEMP40°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND17MPH, WNW

overcast clouds
Friday forecast
TEMP43°F
WEATHERovercast clouds
WIND15MPH, W

broken clouds
Saturday forecast
TEMP36°F
WEATHERbroken clouds
WIND14MPH, WNW

rain and snow
Sunday forecast
TEMP34°F
WEATHERrain and snow
WIND12MPH, SSE

light rain
Monday forecast
TEMP47°F
WEATHERlight rain
WIND16MPH, S

updated 24 March 2025 5:57 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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