Know the rainfall for my garden

[CloCkWeRX]

Farmlogs does this, we could do it on a smaller scale: each day hit a weather API and record temp/rainfall/etc.

This lets me compare climate to yield when planting next year

[CloCkWeRX]

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/weather-along-route/ points out http://openweathermap.org/api which might be of interest

[Br3nda]

Maybe wunderground integration would work here?

[CloCkWeRX]

I've done a proof of concept for this; here's the rake task output at the planting level.

clockwerx@clockwerx-laptop:~/growstuff$ bundle exec rake planting:determine_current_weather
warning: please see https://github.com/whitequark/parser#compatibility-with-ruby-mri.
Weather for Adelaide, SA is 17 degree(s) celcius and Clouds
Weather for Adelaide, SA is 17 degree(s) celcius and Clouds
Weather for Watson is 12.34 degree(s) celcius and Clouds
Weather for O'Connor is 12.35 degree(s) celcius and Clouds
Weather for Downer is 12.36 degree(s) celcius and Clouds

Plantings have PlantingWeatherLogs; which have a weather_data JSON structure. That ties us to postgres; but I think its worth it.

Sample data from the API call looks like:

  {"coord"=>{"lon"=>138.6, "lat"=>-34.92},
   "weather"=>
    [{"id"=>803,
      "main"=>"Clouds",
      "description"=>"broken clouds",
      "icon"=>"04d"}],
   "base"=>"stations",
   "main"=>
    {"temp"=>17,
     "pressure"=>1024,
     "humidity"=>51,
     "temp_min"=>17,
     "temp_max"=>17},
   "visibility"=>10000,
   "wind"=>{"speed"=>5.1, "deg"=>190},
   "clouds"=>{"all"=>75},
   "dt"=>1491809400,
   "sys"=>
    {"type"=>1,
     "id"=>8204,
     "message"=>0.0103,
     "country"=>"AU",
     "sunrise"=>1491771922,
     "sunset"=>1491812870},
   "id"=>7839644,
   "name"=>"Adelaide",
   "cod"=>200}}