http://github.com/matmalone/welements
welements is a library that provides an API for the National Weather Service's National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD). This provides a broad array of different forecast elements that can be queried.
- Find detailed forecasts using lat/lng.
- Access all relevant data the NDFD feed.
- libxml-ruby >= 0.9.7
- geokit >= 1.5.0
- echoe ~> 4.6
gem install welements
forecast = Welements.welements(lat, lng)
puts "The next hourly forecast temperature is #{forecast.temperature_hourly[0][:value]} Celcius at #{forecast.temperature_hourly[0][:time]}."
Mat Malone (m2@innerlogic.org)
welements is originally based on Mat Brown's outoftime-noaa project: http://github.com/outoftime/noaa. outoftime-noaa Copyright 2008 Mat Brown.