Add NOAA weather links?

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Jett Powered
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Add NOAA weather links?

Post by Jett Powered » March 24th, 2023, 12:04 pm

Can you add a link to NOAA on all of the Trailhead field guide pages that include Latitude & Longitude?

When researching places to hike I am constantly checking the weather forecast at the trailhead. This is a slow and manual process. I have the NOAA site open in one window, the field guide in another.
Then I manually modify the URL on the NOAA site with the lat/long for the trailhead.
Their URL is simple (https://www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/MapClick.p ... it=0&lg=ep) and it should be no big deal to automatically generate a link for the weather forecast, just like the autogenerated links to google maps.

Thanks!

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Re: Add NOAA weather links?

Post by retired jerry » March 24th, 2023, 12:49 pm

I use that whenever I go hiking some place. Great to have a weather report at that exact location. Especially, take into account altitude.

Yeah, there is a macro "maplinkinfo" that's used for (most) every location that gets the latitude and longitude. There must be some way to have it also put the link to NOAA weather.

Way above my pay grade though. If I had access to that code I'd probably break it and cause the site to go down. Or the greater internet :)

(which might be a prompt to someone that could do this)

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Re: Add NOAA weather links?

Post by retired jerry » March 24th, 2023, 12:53 pm

I use the slightly different https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.p ... B4OQHbMLIV

This includes a small map that you can pan and zoom to any location, then click on it, and it will give you a weather report for that location.

You don't have to know the lat and lon numbers

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Re: Add NOAA weather links?

Post by adamschneider » March 24th, 2023, 1:17 pm

Done.

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Re: Add NOAA weather links?

Post by retired jerry » March 24th, 2023, 1:47 pm

Thanks. I tried it. That works. You didn't break anything :)

Good idea Jett. The field guide is a community project.

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Re: Add NOAA weather links?

Post by Jett Powered » March 24th, 2023, 3:16 pm

adamschneider wrote:
March 24th, 2023, 1:17 pm
Done.
Thank you!!

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Re: Add NOAA weather links?

Post by jdemott » March 25th, 2023, 8:07 am

That's really cool! Thanks to Jett for a very useful idea and thanks to the admins for making it happen.

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Re: Add NOAA weather links?

Post by bobcat » March 26th, 2023, 12:34 pm

That was a deft sleight of hand, Adam. Many thanks!

By the way, over the past few months I've added links to your wildflower site where the FG is in concordance.

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Re: Add NOAA weather links?

Post by adamschneider » March 26th, 2023, 4:15 pm

bobcat wrote:
March 26th, 2023, 12:34 pm
By the way, over the past few months I've added links to your wildflower site where the FG is in concordance.
I saw that, thanks.

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