ullr

ullr is a little gem that consumes NOAA weather xml for a given lat/long, and returns a ruby object with 12 hour forecasts along with some sugar to let you know if any sugar will be falling from the sky.

Features

Grabs data that powers point forecast pages (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.98886243884903&lon=-121.68182373046875&site=pdt&smap=1&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text)
Returns object with access to forecasted start_time, name (i.e. This Evening), text (i.e. Mostly sunny, high near 19), snow boolean, high_temperature, low_temperature, wind_direction, wind_speeds (array of low,high), snow_estimate (array of low,high)

Examples

iheartsnow = Ullr::Forecast.new(:lat => 43.98, :lon => -121.68)
iheartsnow.get_noaa_forecast

Run Tests

rake test

Stuff To Do

Add support for other data sources (weatherbug, wunderground etc)
Some more integration tests

Requirements

happymapper

Install

gem 'ullr'

Author

Original author: Timmy Crawford

License

The MIT License

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