In ver. 4.0.0.28 Added NOAA support.
There's five different services using different APIs:
1. NOAA (1) - is old stable API used for US weather forecast websites. Requests are pretty simple, based on location (lat, lon). Provides very minimal info, especially for forecast.
2. NOAA (2) - newer API, provides more info. Still in BETA from 2016. A bit more complicated because current conditions and forecast use different stations (observation station and forecast zone). For observations seem to use mostly airport weather stations. Station is selectable in location config.
3. NOAA (3) - new "big data" API, still implementing in the plugin.
4. NOAA Marine (including lakes) - similar to NOAA (1)
5. NOAA Weather Buoys (NDBC)
Note:
NOAA1 and NOAA2 include forecast for the current night (tonight) between 6PM and 6AM. Location settings has the switch "Include forecast period for 'tonight'" to include or ignore the 'tonight' period:
If "Include forecast period for 'tonight'" is OFF:
- Day [0] should be always "Today"
- Day [1] should be always "Tomorrow",
- etc.
If "Include forecast period for 'tonight'" is ON - then the logic depends on local time.
(1) From 6AM to 6PM should be as above.
(2) From 6PM to Midnight should be:
- Day [0] should be "Tonight"
- Day [1] should be "Tomorrow",
- etc.
(3) From Midnight to 6AM should be:
- Day [0] should be "Tonight"
- Day [1] should be "Today",
- Day [2] should be "Tomorrow",
- etc.
There's five different services using different APIs:
1. NOAA (1) - is old stable API used for US weather forecast websites. Requests are pretty simple, based on location (lat, lon). Provides very minimal info, especially for forecast.
2. NOAA (2) - newer API, provides more info. Still in BETA from 2016. A bit more complicated because current conditions and forecast use different stations (observation station and forecast zone). For observations seem to use mostly airport weather stations. Station is selectable in location config.
3. NOAA (3) - new "big data" API, still implementing in the plugin.
4. NOAA Marine (including lakes) - similar to NOAA (1)
5. NOAA Weather Buoys (NDBC)
Note:
NOAA1 and NOAA2 include forecast for the current night (tonight) between 6PM and 6AM. Location settings has the switch "Include forecast period for 'tonight'" to include or ignore the 'tonight' period:
If "Include forecast period for 'tonight'" is OFF:
- Day [0] should be always "Today"
- Day [1] should be always "Tomorrow",
- etc.
If "Include forecast period for 'tonight'" is ON - then the logic depends on local time.
(1) From 6AM to 6PM should be as above.
(2) From 6PM to Midnight should be:
- Day [0] should be "Tonight"
- Day [1] should be "Tomorrow",
- etc.
(3) From Midnight to 6AM should be:
- Day [0] should be "Tonight"
- Day [1] should be "Today",
- Day [2] should be "Tomorrow",
- etc.
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