Geosphere Weather

Shows the current weather for a fixed place in Austria as a block. The editor enters latitude and longitude in the block settings. Visitors cannot change the place.

The data comes from the open data of GeoSphere Austria (CC BY 4.0). No API key, no account.

Features

• Compact widget: weather icon, large temperature, small high and low of the next 24 hours.
• Optional "Today and tomorrow" view with an icon, temperature, high and low for each day.
• Rendered on the server. No JavaScript, and the visitor's browser sends no request to GeoSphere.
• At most one API call per location every five minutes. If the API is slow or down, the module shows the last data (up to one hour old) and refreshes it after the page is sent.
• The weather icons are part of the module (Weather Icons, SIL OFL 1.1). No external service is called to show them.
• A small "ⓘ" in the widget links to the data source and to the CC BY 4.0 license. This is the attribution that the license requires.
• German translation included. The module imports it by itself.

Requirements

• Drupal 10.3 or later, or Drupal 11. PHP 8.2 or later.
• Core Block module only.
• Outgoing HTTPS requests to dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at.

Set-up

1. Install and enable the module.
2. Place the "GeoSphere weather" block (category "Weather") in a region.
3. Enter latitude and longitude (example for Eichgraben: 48.1936, 16.1128). Optional: a display name as title, and the checkbox for tomorrow.

The data covers Austria and the area around it (latitude 45.5 to 49.48, longitude 8.1 to 17.74). To change the look, override the Twig template or set the CSS custom properties --geosphere-weather-* in your theme.

Good to know

• The weather icon is derived from precipitation, temperature and cloud cover. It is an estimate, not an official GeoSphere classification.
• Tomorrow uses the calendar day in Austria. The icon uses 07:00 to 19:00.
• If the block shows nothing, look in the Drupal log (channel geosphere_weather).

This module was developed for LocalGov Drupal Austria
by ACOLONO GmbH

to show local weather on the websites of Austrian municipalities.

It is a standalone module. You can use it on any Drupal 10.3+ or Drupal 11 site, with or without LocalGov Drupal.