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Introducing Our-Hometown’s Fully-Featured Weather Widget

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Our engineering team has been hard at work creating a new fully-featured weather widget for use on our customer websites.

The widget features a header displaying current conditions and today’s forecast.

Below the header you can toggle a section to display periodic Special Weather Statements from the National Weather Service.

The main portion of the widget is dedicated to tabs that provide Hourly and 7-Day forecasts, as well as a live radar Map.

For the Hourly and 7-Day forecast entries, a button to the right of each will reveal further details for that particular timeframe.

The Map tab displays a live view with settings for the road/satellite view, plus layer toggles for various map overlays, such as precipitation, temperature, etc. and can even play through an animation of weather conditions.

A General Settings page provides options to toggle the default state (on or off) for many of these items as well as the default location and your API key for accessing the weather data.

The widget actually includes two separate widgets that can be used in the theme Customizer or simply in the Block Editor. One for a small heading display and one for the full widget.