Wx Dashboard

This website is meant to display weather data, in full screen, on the TV in the livingroom of my RV. The weather data contains: National Frontal Patterns, Local Weather(Wx) Radar, Current: Temp, Dew Point, Humidity, Barometric Pressure, % Chance of Rain, and Sky Conditions, 1/2/3-Day Forcasts of High/Low Temp, Sky Conditions, and % Chance of Rain.

Version Path

V0.1

• UI using HTML/CSS
• Basic Logic
  • Async/wait data pull-downs
  • Data formatting
  • Pushing data to UI @ 15min intervals

V0.5

• All previous features
• Configurable location (Zip) (Later, I would like to add compatibility with: City/State, Country/Province, MGRS, Lat./Long.)
• Make forecast panels pretty
• Store captured weather data for later analysis
• Day/Night changing UI colors based on Sunset/Sunrise times pulled from some Astronomical DB

V1.0

• All previous features
• Implement everything in Django or Flash (To force a re-write and learn something new.)
• Completely clean front end code and clean/useful backend analytics

Development

• Lang: HTML/CSS/JS
• To Do (V0.1):
  • UI HTML Skeleton
  • CSS basic style for initial dev.
  • JS Variables for HTML element contents
  • [] JS data pull-down
  • [] JS data formatting
  • [] JS data push to HTML
  • [] Does the app run every 15min?