open-meteo_skill

Overview

This skill connects to the Open-Meteo API to fetch free, no‑API‑key weather data and generate visual weather digests. It provides current conditions, hourly forecasts, and 7‑day daily forecasts with precipitation probability, feels‑like temperature, UV index, sunrise/sunset, and more. It also produces a Weather Strip SVG widget for embeddable daily digests and multi‑city travel schedules.

How this skill works

The skill requests JSON from Open‑Meteo for given latitude/longitude and requested modes (current, hourly, daily). It normalizes key fields like apparent_temperature, precipitation_probability_max, uv_index_max, and local times, and can output raw JSON or a styled Weather Strip SVG/HTML. The Weather Strip uses bezier curves for temps, cloud and rain graphs, UV bars, and optional multi‑city scheduling for digest integration.

When to use it

• When a user asks for current weather or short‑term forecasts for any location
• To get hourly detail for planning outdoor activities or travel
• To generate a daily weather digest or embeddable weather widget
• When you need precipitation probability, feels‑like temp, UV index, or sunrise/sunset times
• For travel planning across multiple cities and time ranges

Best practices

• Query by latitude and longitude for most reliable results; use geocoding when you only have a city name
• Request only the needed modes (current/hourly/daily) to reduce payload
• Use precipitation_probability_max to decide if rain is likely rather than raw precipitation totals
• Respect local timezone output — times are returned in the location’s timezone
• Regenerate the Weather Strip once per morning for digest pages; use schedule mode for multi‑city travel windows

Example use cases

• Give a conversational morning summary: temperature, rain risk, UV advice, and sunrise/sunset
• Embed the Weather Strip HTML at the top of a daily digest or intranet page
• Produce hourly forecasts for outdoor event planning with rain probability and feels‑like temps
• Generate a multi‑city travel weather strip showing time‑range coverage for each stop
• Fetch raw JSON for custom processing or to pipe into jq for automation