soreese

Andy –

Thanks for your response.

Glad you were able to corroborate the issue I was having. Your response seems consistent with what I read elsewhere in the support forum. In investigating this further here is what I found.

When I went to the OpenWeatherMap site and then input to CityID for Palm Springs I get the weather forecast for that City which seems more correct and consistent with the weather we are having. The weather report on the OpenWeatherMap site seemed correct, the plug-in seems to be returning an incorrect result, as from some other source city. Then I learned there could be multiple sources.

When I did searches on the OpenWeatherMap site i also learned that the database is world wide if your City name is shared with another city anywhere, you can selected that City incorrectly. If you use the OpenWeahterMap site to search for your city you are also presented with the Geo Code which you can click on leading you to a map location of the City you have selected where you can verify the location.

In tinkering with the plug-in further I tried entering the city name (Palm Springs) followed by a comma and then “US” in the “City Code” data entry field. So the entry looked like this “Palm Springs, US”. I selected United States in the “Country” drop down menu. This worked and I got the plug-in to display weather that was fairly precise as to temperature, and the rest of the data seemed more precisely correct. I noted in the forum that there have been other observations of temperature being off by a few degrees and I would agree with that, but it seems close enough.

A couple of more observations about the OpenWeatherMap site. In reviewing site information I learned that data is provided from public and private (you can enroll your weather station) sources. When I checked their website for contributors in my area, I could not find the source/a source. When I looked on their map for weather conditions in other cities in the Coachella Valley, I see that it is reporting the same weather in each City. When I check that data against the National Weather Service Data, the weather service data is correct, OpenWeather is not. I checked this for several cities in Illinois and California with the same result. They say they use local airport and Weather Service Data, but it doesn’t appear that way.

It is funny, but the much of the report (humidity, visibility, etc.) seems correct, but the temperature is incorrect. It almost seems like the calculation for temperature is incorrect and renders an incorrect result.

Your plug-in is perfect in every respect. It is a beautifully simplistic / minimalisic graphic rendering of the data. Thanks for your creation and maintenance of the plug-in. I just wish the datasource it uses was correct.

Hope these additional observations prove useful.

Scott Reese