welements
http://github.com/matmmalone/welements
Description
welements is a library that provides an API for the National Weather Service's National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD). This provides a broad array of different forecast elements that can be queried.
Features
- Find detailed forecasts using lat/lng.
- Access all relevant data the NDFD feed.
Requirements
- libxml-ruby >= 0.9.7
- geokit >= 1.5.0
Installation
sudo gem install welements
Usage
Get current conditions
forecast = Welements.welements(lat, lng)
puts "The next hourly forecast temperature is #{forecast.temperature_hourly[0][:value]} Celcius at #{forecast.temperature_hourly[0][:time]}."
Contact
Mat Malone ([email protected])
Fork
welements is originally based on Mat Brown's outoftime-noaa project: http://github.com/outoftime/noaa. outoftime-noaa Copyright 2008 Mat Brown.
License
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2012 Mat Malone
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