{"id":2367,"date":"2017-04-15T16:56:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T14:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2017-04-15T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T14:56:21","slug":"new-plugin-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/?p=2367","title":{"rendered":"New Plugin – Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi guys,<\/p>\n

I am slowly mentally getting ready for my least favorite season – the summer and looking forward to fall when it starts getting cold again (though I have to say there is a cold front coming tomorrow with even snow possible \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I therefore thought I need to make a plugin for the summer – and so I decided to make a plugin with current conditions from the automated weather stations in Antarctica – so that I at least have something to look at which\u00a0will remind me of winter during the uncomfortable warm, sunny days.<\/p>\n

What seemed a relatively easy task turned out very complicated because I found that both Google maps and Leaflet maps are useless. Just try entering some of the GPS in Google maps and you will most likely end up with a marker in the middle of the ocean – this is due to the Mercator projection which is used by all these map APIs and which works ideal for most locations – but not Antarctica.<\/p>\n

I therefore had to use different ways to show the correct map of Antarctica, but I think it works now.<\/p>\n

Data is (or rather should be) updated ever hour – HOWEVER – as you can probably imagine, many stations often fail to report so the number of stations is likely to vary. Right now there is around 15, yesterday there was over 40 when I was creating this. The plugin will always load whatever is currently available and display it.<\/p>\n

Data includes:<\/p>\n