Posted by toddy on January 28, 2004 at 11:08am
This module uses METAR (METeorological Aerodrome Report) data to display current weather conditions from anywhere in the world.
Features
- Supports an unlimited number of blocks and an unlimited number of locations per block
- Provides a custom block which can be administrated by a user
- Users can search for a location and get a display of the weather conditions
- Integrates with Location or Node Map modules and shows the weather nearby a node's location
- Displays different images for daytime and nighttime
- Download of current METAR data is scheduled in a smart way to reduce unnecessary network traffic and keep your site responsive
- Provides three different methods to download the METAR data (fopen, curl, and wget) and multiple download locations
- Displayed units of the weather data are completely configurable
- Layout of displayed block is configurable with the template engine
- Supports custom weather images
- Fully translatable, currently available in English, German, Dutch, Czech, Norwegian, Russian, Hungarian, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian, Greek, Croatian, and Slovak
- Works well with MySQL or PostgreSQL databases
Project Information
- Maintenance status: Actively maintained
- Development status: Under active development
- Reported installs: 3848 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
- Automated tests: Enabled
- Last modified: August 18, 2011
