Suggest Tweaks for Weather plug-in

[scb147]

NOAA is only US, so it leaves out the rest of the world.

[Snooze]

Moon Phase would be cool too!

[SFX Group]

Hi

The weather plugin i am using uses MSN, it still works, however it needs to support the whole planet or its pointless really...

That sais MSN coverage of USA and Canada are basic (most of it on the screen for the images), mine still works though....

I am working on a Weather2 plugin, which gets its data from Accu weather. I have most of it complete, I'm just figuring out how I want the screens to look and how to control them.

I tried looking through the old Weather plugin code, but I liked using the WizTools, so I decided it would be easier to write my own from scratch.

Weather2 currently only supports one location though. Multi-location wasn't big on my to do list.

I'd also like to know if people would like the forecast in a list view, where you could select the day and a popup would give the details. Or the old vertical way, with the icon of the weather for the day, with the high and low temps. I currently have it in list format with a popup, but I don't like the looks of the popup. I'll get some screenshots when I get a chance.

As for maps, for a US location, you can currently get 3 radar maps and 3 satellite infared maps. The views of them are state, regional and national. Canada gets 2 radar and 2 national, regional and national. Then the rest of the world gets a national satellite infared map.

You can currently choose between US units and metric, number of days to show in the forecast list, update frequency, and the number of digits for specific fields (mainly humidity levels).

More details to come when I am ready for some beta testing...

[SFX Group]

Have you looked at the google weather area, it has moon phases as well as major local airports (to your location) and they do the whole planet), looks like an API type system, i found it with google.com then search weather and look at the igoogle page.

[Snooze]

Accuweather has moon phases with moon rise moon set times. Would be kinda handy when planning a hot tub with a gal pal... I live in the city where there are city lights all around ;-)

[SFX Group]

ive just looked at weather.com, this looks really good, has flash for each country and location like a weather report..... not sure if that helps..

[SFX Group]

UPDATE: the weather.com site uses the same location codes as the current weather plugin i am using now.... this might be the easiest to convert to?

[McBainUK]

Yahoo have an RSS based weather API. Not sure about global coverage though - didn't look to deep.

http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/