Weather API Solution With Digital Journal

Over the years, the citizen journalist based website, Digital Journal has made accuracy the forefront of their core mission. So when it came time to add a weather function to their offering, the website developers opted to use the web based weather API that provided the most accurate weather available in the US – the WeatherBug API.

Digital Journal knew early on that in order to maintain their creditability, using an API from a weather reporting company meant the data provided must meet the following criteria.

• Weather data from more than just the nearest airport.
• Updated and accurate every few minutes.
• Allow the end user to select the physical weather station closest to them.

So how does the new Digital Journal web based weather widget work? Well first we start off by creating a user account at Digital Journal. After doing this, you head on over to their front page. On the right hand side, you will see something that looks a lot like this below.

As you can see, the weather widget is already loaded and it even allows you to drag it around the web page should wish to see it placed elsewhere. Now comes the important part – making sure the weather displayed is relevant to the location you happen to be living in.

By clicking on “Add/Edit”, you will then be presented with this option shown below.

As you can see above, choosing to add both your town along with the nearest weather station in your area is really straight forward. Once you have selected what you want, then hit OK, you will then find yourself looking at the local weather for your location. And when I say local, I mean really local, not just the nearest airport. This can be truly beneficial when you live in a bigger city and the “other guys” are providing old data from earlier in the day from a source that is over 20 miles away.

So what about for those of you who do a bit of traveling or own a cabin someplace – maybe you just want to monitor more than one weather source? No worries, Digital Journal has you covered here as well. Just choose “Add/Edit” once again and select yet another location. This way you can have more than one weather report presented to you on the front page.

Digital Journal’s use of the WeatherBug API provides website visitors with the ability to add as many different locations as they please. They can even add different weather station selections from within the same locale. It’s pretty cool, certainly worth checking out.

Looking for this kind of movable weather widget action with even more control and more weather data? Take a gander at My.WeatherBug.com .