I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. - Paulo Coelho
While humans may not be able to control the weather, modern meteorology has advanced weather forecasting to a point where "surprises" can be effectively eliminated. Doppler radar, satellites, and other modern technology give a fairly accurate depiction of what the weather will be like. This Weather Dashboard uses APIs to help bring you the accurate weather for any location in the world.
An application programming interface (API) is a computing interface that defines interactions between multiple software intermediaries. It defines the kinds of calls or requests that can be made, how to make them, the data formats that should be used, the conventions to follow, and the schema that the data follows. It can also provide extension mechanisms so that users can extend existing functionality in various ways to varying degrees.[1]
The team at OpenCage has built a geocoding API that can do both forward and reverse geocoding. Forward geocoding is the process of finding latitude and longitude coordinates from the name of a location. Reverse geocoding is finding a location based on the known latitude and longitude coordinates. The Weather Dashboard app uses the OpenCage API to take in a city name as a search parameter and forward geocode the locaiton name into a set of latitude and longitude coordinates.
Similarly, OpenWeather has developed an API tha will give you weather information for a location. This information can be minutely, hourly, or daily. It may be the current weather or a five day forecast. In order to use the "one call" OpenWeather API latitude and longitude coordinates are needed. The Weather Dashboard takes the latitude and longitude coordinates from OpenCage and uses them in the OpenWeather API to get current and five-day weather conditions.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. - Mark Twain
The Weather Dashboard has a static list of "Popular Cities" for which users may want to know the weather conditions.
Additionally, users of the Weather Dashboard can search for a city for which he/she wants to know the weather conditions. When the user enters the name of the city, the app takes the entered city name and gets the latitude and longitude coordinates from OpenCage. Once OpenCage has returned the latitude and longitude coordinates, they are used to get the weather conditions from OpenWeather. The information from OpenWeather is then displayed in the appropriate spaces in the dashboard.
Weather Dashboard keeps track of cities that have been searched. The searched cities are added to the "Previous Searches" list under the "Popular Cities". Accordingly, each of the cities in the "Previous Searches" list is added to an object in local storage so that the list is persistent.
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin
When a city is searched, the UV Index information is displayed. The background of the UV Index is updated according to this range.[2]
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Low UV from 0 to 2 is represented by greenyellow
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Moderate UV from 3 to 5 is represented by yellow
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High UV from 6 to 7 is represented by dark orange
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Very High UV from 8 to 10 is represented by orange red
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Extreme UV over 11 is represented by dark orchid
The Weather Dashboard also includes functionality to clear the "Previous Search" ...
... and functionality to clear the currently displayed weather.
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