weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
Weather can be an attribute of a post, a log of a passive experience, or an entity.
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IndieWeb Examples
Calum Ryan
Calum Ryan displays weather and temperature information per post as of 2016-05-28.
Christian Weiske
His website's background color changes with time of day and weather conditions. Explanation.
Jeremy Keith
Jeremy Keith displays a weather icon next to the location of the post.
Eddie Hinkle
Eddie Hinkle displays weather and temperature information per post as of 2017-12-28 by fetching it from Dark Sky API as part of his 2018-01-01 Commitment. Adding Weather to my Site
He also has added some important historical weather to posts
Eddie also uses his current location and the weather from that location to add weather effects to his homepage. as of 2018-11-15 he supports displaying animated snow if it is snowing at his current location.
Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki displays weather and temperature information per post as of 2017-12-30.
Daniel Goldsmith
Daniel Goldsmith has been including current weather and temperature on his site since 2018-01-13. He also posted a description of the process and the resources used to enable this functionality
Jonathan LaCour
Jonathan LaCour displays weather details based upon his current location on all posts as of 2019-01-16. Jonathan is using the Dark Sky API.
Attribute
Aaron Parecki stores weather data from an external source and has a pending issue for p3k to add weather data along with location data for posts.
Passive Post
Weather can be the logging of a passive experience as a post on a site.
Entity
An entire site can be for an entity, such as a weather station.
Brainstorming
weather info on posts
The simplest use case for weather data is attached to a post of any type. This adds additional context to a post.
Example: Picture of Snowpocalypse...with the context of location and temperature.
Possible items in need of markup
- Temperature
- Relative Humidity
- Barometric Pressure
- Rainfall
- Windspeed and direction
David Shanske suggests that all properties be marked up as either plaintext or an h-measure and that these properties be considered part of the location property. Specifically within an h-adr. Proposal for properties is as followed.
- p-temperature - Temperature
- p-humidity - Humidity
- p-weather - A textual description of the weather
weather info on homepage
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Tantek Çelik: I kinda want different modifiers to my site icon depending on weather condition, like, a 😷 for bad air, a cap for cold weather etc., perhaps seasonal icon decorations
silo examples
UK Snow Map collates tweets with #uksnow in and location (by postcode or geotag) and snow intensity from 0-10
There is a small and dedicated community of weather enthusiasts that are contributing data to sites such as Weather Underground. From the entity point of view, there is an opportunity for this data to appear as a useful activity stream. example of weathwr station posting
See Also
- Good UI examples: Dark Sky, https://www.metoffice.gov.uk
