A weather plugin for sailors and boaters

Current weather at Kittery, Maine

updated every 5 minutes

TEMP80°F
WEATHERbroken clouds
WIND3 MPH, E

broken clouds
Wednesday forecast
TEMP78°F
WEATHERbroken clouds
WIND8MPH, SSE

light rain
Thursday forecast
TEMP64°F
WEATHERlight rain
WIND12MPH, E

moderate rain
Friday forecast
TEMP63°F
WEATHERmoderate rain
WIND21MPH, NE

moderate rain
Saturday forecast
TEMP58°F
WEATHERmoderate rain
WIND20MPH, NNE

light rain
Sunday forecast
TEMP57°F
WEATHERlight rain
WIND19MPH, NE

few clouds
Monday forecast
TEMP59°F
WEATHERfew clouds
WIND9MPH, N

broken clouds
Tuesday forecast
TEMP63°F
WEATHERbroken clouds
WIND9MPH, SSE

overcast clouds
Wednesday forecast
TEMP64°F
WEATHERovercast clouds
WIND15MPH, SSE

updated 18 September 2024 1:07 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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