origindesign/noaa

Client library for NOAA's forecast and current weather service api

noaa

Please note: the new api is still under development., _(*1)

A php library for working with the NOAA api The NOAA documentation, _(*2)

Forecasts can be retrieved for a point or a station. Both the hourly and daily forecast return 7 days worth of data., _(*3)

Observations are for the last 5 hours, _(*4)

Basic Usage - Forecast for a given point

<?php
include "noaa/autoload.php"; //only needed if not using composer bootstrap
use noaa\util\Cache;
use noaa\Point;
use noaa\NOAA;

$noaa = new NOAA(new Cache);
$point = new Point(43.43, -90.80);
$noaa->setPoint($point);
$hourly = $noaa->getHourlyForecast();
foreach($hourly as $forecast){
    echo $forecast->getStart('D, d M H:i:s') . " Temp:" . $forecast->getTemperature() . "\n";
}

Basic Usage - Observation for a given point

<?php
include "noaa/autoload.php"; //only needed if not using composer bootstrap
use noaa\util\Cache;
use noaa\Point;
use noaa\NOAA;

$noaa = new NOAA(new Cache);
$point = new Point(43.43, -90.80);
$noaa->setPoint($point);
//get a station
echo "Observations recorded at: " . $noaa->getStation()->getName()."\n";
$observations = $noaa->getObservations();
foreach($observations as $observation){
    echo $observation->getTime('D, d M H:i:s') . " Temp:" . $observation->getTemperature() . "\n";
}