By rp1428 on

Joomla has a National Weather Center (example http://www.greetin.gs) and I don't seem to be able to find one that comes close. Is there one? I've tried Yahoo wather and Weather but neither is particular elegant.

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goldentoque commented

Its not a proper module, however I have in the past just created a custom block which includes code provided by various weather service providers...

For example the Weather Channel or the Weather Network in Canada as well as Environment Canada and I would suspect other Countries Weather Services have code generators which create html code that you can include on your own site... The Weather Channel one is neat in that you can choose your background and size etc...

The link the the Weather Channel is...

http://www.weather.com/services/oap.html

Just set the block format to Full HTML and Voila

Darren

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BradHorn commented

I installed the Weather Channel Java script on my site as a new block. It generally looks good, but the script is causing the block to turn dark on some pages. It's really bizarre. I would really appreciate someone having a look at the website and making any suggestions:

www.btrscoots.com

Brad Horn

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pbarnett commented

Try the weather module I mentioned below; it's enormously flexible...

Pete.

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pbarnett commented

Hi, Robert.

I'm using the weather module and it suits my needs; it uses a METAR feed from the NOAA; it collects a METAR file for the nearest airport to you (the list is amazingly complete; it works fine here in the UK with a source 20 miles away; near enough for me :-).

The module itself is very clearly written, and easy to customise... see what you think.

Pete.

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edoc commented

I have installed the Weather module on my Test site.

I puttered around and got a new location set up and made the default setting the same.

However, I can see no way to actually implement Weather on my Drupal site.

Do I need another module or something, please?

Thanks!

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pbarnett commented

Hi!

You're so nearly there with it...

If you go to Administer > blocks, you'll see two new blocks in the list of disabled blocks, called 'Weather: system-wide' and 'Weather: custom user'.

Enable the one you want, select the region (left sidebar or whatever) that you want it to be in, choose a weight to control where it appears in that region, scroll down the page and click on 'Save blocks', and that should do it.

Pete.