rdyro/weather_landscape

Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery

Minimalistic copy of lds133's Weather Landscape

Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery

Forked from lds133 excellent project.

Visit https://openweathermap.org/ for an API Key and export it as OWM_KEY=... in your environment

Installable via pip:

$ pip install .
$ # OR
$ pip install git+https://github.com/rdyro/weather_landscape

Example usage

from weather_landscape import WeatherLandscape

# lon - longitude, lat - latitude as floating point numbers (negative for west and south)
w = WeatherLandscape(lon=52.237049, lat=21.017532, width=1024, height=128)
img = w.make_img() # get the PIL.Image.Image object directly

# or render and save to file
filename = "warsaw_weather_landscape.png"
w.make_and_save_img(filename) # make and save the image

Dynamically Serving the Weather Landscape

Run the Flask server

$ env OMW_KEY={your key} python3 server.py

Visit the URL

• http://{server address}/image?lat={latitude}&lon={longitude}&width={width}&height={height}&temperature_unit={unit}

for example

• http://localhost:8000/image?lat=52.24&lon=21.02&width=512&height=128&temperature_unit=C

Legend

Event image	Description
	Sunrise
	Sunset
	Cloud cover
	Current time position
	Midnight
	Midday
	South wind
	East wind
	West wind
	North wind