node-red-node-weather-underground v0.1.12

node-red-node-weather-underground

A Node-RED node that gets the weather report and forecast from The Weather Underground

Pre-requisites

You will need an API key from the The Weather Underground API site.

Install

Run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED install

    npm install node-red-node-weather-underground

Usage

Two nodes that get the weather report and forecast from The Weather Underground.

Input Node

Fetches the current weather and forecast at a location specified by name or lat,lon every 5 minutes - and outputs a msg if something has changed.

Query node

Accepts an input to trigger fetching the current weather and forecast either from a specified location name or lat,lon or passed in on

    msg.location.city and msg.location.country
    or
    msg.location.lat and msg.location.lon

Results

Both nodes require a valid Weather Underground API in order to work.

Both will return

• description - a brief verbal description of the current weather for human reading.
• weather - a very short description of the current weather.
• tempc - the current ground temperature at that location in Celsius.
• tempf - the current ground temperature at that location in Fahrenheit.
• tempk - the current ground temperature at that location in Kelvin.
• humidity - the current relative humidity at the location in percent.
• windspeed - the current wind speed at the location in Metres per second.
• winddirection - the current wind direction at the location in meteorological degrees.
• location - the name of the location from which the data was sourced.
• forecast - the forecast for the next 12 hours.
• epoch - the time of the observation in epoch format.

The node also sets the following properties of msg.location.

• lat - the latitude of the location from which the data was sourced.
• lon - the longitude of the location from which the data was sourced.
• city - the city from which the data was sourced.
• country - the country from which the data was sourced.

Finally, the node sets:

• msg.time - the time at which the weather data was received by The Weather Underground.
• msg.data - the full JSON returned by the API. This is VERY rich...

Weather data provided by The Weather Underground