welements

http://github.com/matmalone/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
• echoe ~> 4.6

Installation

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 (m2@innerlogic.org)

Fork

welements is originally based on Mat Brown's outoftime-noaa project: http://github.com/outoftime/noaa. outoftime-noaa Copyright 2008 Mat Brown.