Weather/Meteorology plugin

[alex-w]

Original report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/1429555

Original request: https://sourceforge.net/p/stellarium/discussion/278769/thread/0026e3e9/

On more than one occasion I found myself needing weather information for the location I'm set at. Instead I'm having to exit out of Stellarium and go to my preferred weather update site, Weather Underground (Wunderground).
Surely, it would be simple to create a bit of standard text displaying temperature, clear/cloudy, humidity, pressure, wind speed and direction.

Is there, hidden somewhere, an already existing plug-in just like this for Stellarium? If not, I'd like to get users' opnions, and see if we can find someone to create one.

[Coder206]

@alex-w I think this would be a wonderful addition to Stellarium.

[Coder206]

Perhaps, there could be a general implementation for the necessary information pertinent to Stellarium (e.g. cloud cover), then the users are free to choose to pay for weather from a site, use airport data (METAR/TAF) or connect their own meteorology systems.

[gzotti]

I am not sure if this is even really helpful. When I am out already, I actually see cloud cover, no need for a program to tell me whether that single fat cloud covers my target. Or, if needed, a smartphone app can already tell me temperature/cloud cover. Robotic telescope systems have their own sophisticated solutions (allsky camera, rain sensor etc.)

Weather forecast is more important, to know whether an evening will be good. But there are those nice services that provide this already. And nobody has to quit Stellarium to call another program. Task switch to a web browser that has all the information prepared by experts already.

[antgiant]

Just noting that this is related to #415, as solving this is actually the more general case of solving #415.

[SpaceDodger]

This is also must needed features in the Stellarium. Always it frustrates me to quit the app on PC or Mobile to use 3rd party software to check whether is it okay or cloudy to stargaze. I highly recommend this feature and the Deep Space probe plugin must needed in the Stellarium.

[alex-w]

Some useful links: Astrarium/Astrarium#105