A weather plugin for sailors and boaters

Current weather at Kittery, Maine

updated every 5 minutes

TEMP40°F
WEATHERscattered clouds
WIND3 MPH, W

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

rain and snow
Saturday forecast
TEMP37°F
WEATHERrain and snow
WIND17MPH, ESE

light rain
Sunday forecast
TEMP45°F
WEATHERlight rain
WIND19MPH, WSW

scattered clouds
Monday forecast
TEMP44°F
WEATHERscattered clouds
WIND16MPH, WNW

snow
Tuesday forecast
TEMP40°F
WEATHERsnow
WIND11MPH, ESE

rain and snow
Wednesday forecast
TEMP39°F
WEATHERrain and snow
WIND16MPH, NW

scattered clouds
Thursday forecast
TEMP40°F
WEATHERscattered clouds
WIND16MPH, WNW

clear sky
Friday forecast
TEMP40°F
WEATHERclear sky
WIND10MPH, S

updated 24 March 2023 4:29 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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