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NOAA Weather

Get NOAA weather information in the sidebar for your locale. Note that NOAA reports weather for US States, Commonwealths, & Territories only.

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Tested up to WordPress 5.9
Current version1.4
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 5.9
Minimum stackWP 3.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update13 Feb 20224y ago
Active installations200Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.4 / 5 from 9 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records NOAA Weather version 1.4 as active, updated 4y ago and tested up to WordPress 5.9.

Overview

About this plugin

The NOAA Weather widget will show the current weather and weather icons for any locale in the United States (including the commonwealths & territories) that NOAA reports on. It will automatically add the necessary information into the WordPress cron to update every 30 minutes.

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gov/xml/current_obs/ and find your state or location in the dropdown list and click the “Find” button. On the next screen find your ‘Observation Location’ and the code you need is in parenthesis after the location name.

Depending on your theme you may need to tweak the CSS file. Editing is available through the WordPress Admin Menu via Plugins->Editor. Then in the upper-right corner change the ‘plugin to edit’ dropdown box to “NOAA Weather” and click the “Select” button to the right of that.

css” file just below the dropdown box and “Select” button.

You can have multiple instances of the widget on the same page.

This widget periodically downloads an XML file from NOAA into the widget folder so it will need the appropriate permissions. Files need to be set to “0644” and folders need to be set to “0755”. org/Changing_File_Permissions) for more information.

Possible New Features (in no particular order)

1) Weather alerts.

2) 3 or 5 day forecast.

3) Current conditions detail.

4) Shortcodes to include the weather in posts/pages.

Known Bugs

The datestamp for the log function doesn’t use the locale setting to calculate the time.

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Plugin tags

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  • plug in
  • united states
  • forecast
  • local
  • noaa
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 5.9

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 5.9.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to5.9
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity13 Feb 20224y ago

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