OpenWeatherMap-Alerts-Weather-Driver

[UPDATED]
v0.2.8
10/20/2020

Changes:

  • Now pulls weather alerts from OpenWeatherMap instead of weather.gov.
  • Various cleanups and bug fixes (from @nh.schottfam, Thanks!)

OpenWeatherMap now provides " Government weather alerts data from major national weather warning systems" This driver now uses that as the source for all weather alerts. This means that alerts are no longer exclusive the the United States. For the list of all sources that OWM claims is uses look here.

At this time only the first alert is shown, even if there are multiple alerts. I will look into displaying more than one alert if those exist in a future release.

Additional attributes available include:
alertDescr = The first 1,024 characters of the detailed alert description.
alertSender = The source of the alert.

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