{"id":983,"date":"2016-08-20T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2016-08-20T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T16:24:10","slug":"new-plugin-weather-metar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"New Plugin – Weather METAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi guys,<\/p>\n

as I promised yesterday, here is a plugin similar to the block released yesterday. It shows current conditions loaded from METAR reports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This is an alternative to the cityConditions plugin, however it is not a duplicate. It uses METAR reports<\/strong>, not Yahoo weather, this has some advantages as well as disadvantages. The advantage is much more reliable<\/strong> data and some extra parameters<\/strong>. The disadvantage is that not all data is available like in the Yahoo weather plugin – there is for example no information about the actual conditions (cloudy, sunny etc.) and there is for example no info about daily precipitation.<\/p>\n

There is one new thing that I have never tried before and this is sort of the first experiment…. I spent quite some time experimenting with the Leaflet Map API<\/strong>, so this plugin does not use Google Maps, but uses Leaflet freeware maps. This has some advantages – for example you do not need an API key for this, there are some new layers available, I also added some very cool features such as turning globe, measuring distance tool, day\/night visualization etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Main features<\/h3>\n