Mike Freeman

WeatherWrite brings your local weather coverage to the cloud. It automatically captures real conditions and generates posts that highlight yesterday’s recap, today’s forecast, and tomorrow’s outlook — all written in the style you choose. Schedule posts to publish exactly when you want, with automated images matched to the weather. Customize as much as you like, or let WeatherWrite handle the heavy lifting. Your readers get weather that feels personal, and you stay in control while the work gets done for you.
Video walkthrough: <a href="https://youtu.be/4ZUW77WvSCc" rel="nofollow ugc">https://youtu.be/4ZUW77WvSCc</a>
Features: 
– Generates a dedicated post for each weather report created, on demand or on a schedule. 
– Scheduled auto-posting (up to 6 times per day and you control the schedule) 
– Admin settings for API key, schedule, images, weather alerts, writing style, and defaults
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to several external services to generate weather-aware content and visualizations. Details for each service are below.
<ul>
<li>
ReIntent API (text generation)
<ul>
<li>Endpoints: https://xwkwzbjifh.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/v1 and https://1xt5le1gn6.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/v1</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Generates the narrative text given prompts and options from the plugin settings.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: On-demand (when you click generate or scheduled runs), the prompt text and selected options (e.g., location string, tone, length) are sent. Requires your API key; the plugin does not store API responses beyond creating the post. To obtain your key, email mike@weatherwrite.com.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Open‑Meteo Forecast API
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: https://api.open-meteo.com</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Retrieves forecast and hourly data used in summaries, charts, and thresholds.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Latitude/longitude, desired variables, unit and language parameters on fetch.</li>
<li>Privacy: https://open-meteo.com/en/privacy</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Open‑Meteo Geocoding API
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: https://geocoding-api.open-meteo.com</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Resolves user-entered place names to coordinates.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Query string (place name), country hint, language.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Nominatim (fallback geocoding)
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Fallback geocoding if Open‑Meteo geocoder cannot resolve.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Query string in the request URL. A User‑Agent header identifying the site is included.</li>
<li>Policy: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
GeoNames
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: http://api.geonames.org</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Looks up GeoNameID and region metadata for map embeds.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: GeoNameID queries and/or name lookups; includes the configured username.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
OpenWeather (official alerts)
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: https://api.openweathermap.org</li>
<li>What it’s used for: When enabled in settings, retrieves official weather alerts via One Call 3.0 for the configured location.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Latitude/longitude when checking for alerts.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Meteoblue (map embed)
<ul>
<li>Website: https://www.meteoblue.com</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Optional iframe map shown in posts if enabled.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Parameters are included in the iframe URL (e.g., geonameId and/or lat/lon). No plugin-side requests are made; it is a browser iframe embed.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Weather Write


Full transparency, I built this plugin, so take my "review" with a grain of salt. I built WeatherWrite for newspaper publishers. The world of a bustling news room with dozens of writers, phones ringing, and an old grumpy editor smoking a cigar are visions from the past. Today's newsroom is a small group of generalists. No longer do they have days to write an article, but articles to write in a day. I wanted to help relieve some of that stress with WeatherWrite. Publishers can automate the process of generating weather reports automatically. Written in their voice, custom images for their market, and tagged, posted and written how they want. From the very beginning, control was my number 1 most important factor. So, I give you all the control. You can modify everything to fit your publication. 







Thanks for taking a look and if anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer them. Just drop me an email at mike@weatherwrite.com


Automated Weather Reporting

Weather-aware writing prompts/snippets inside WordPress. Generate posts manually or on a schedule using ReIntentAPI and Open-Meteo.

AS OF MAY 2016, THIS PLUGIN IS NOT BEING MAINTAINED AND WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY FUTURE UPDATES. 
CONTACT ME IF YOU’D LIKE TO LIST AN ALTERNATIVE HERE.
Shows word and sentence counts plus a readability analysis of the post 
currently being edited using three different readability measurements.
Readability analysis is an attempt to show how difficult a text is to read. 
There are several methods of doing readability analysis. The most popular 
methods are used here. The Flesch and Flesch-Kincaid methods use formulas based 
on the average number of words per sentence and the average number of syllables 
per word. The Gunning-Fog method uses a formula based on the average number of 
words per sentence and the percentage of “hard” words (words with 3 or more 
syllables) in the passage.
Both the Gunning-Fog and the Flesch-Kincaid give a score that is the number of 
years of education the reader must have completed to understand the text. 
Different types of writing calls for different scores. Technical subjects may 
require a higher level of education so a higher Fog or Kincaid score is 
acceptable. Informal writing may try for a score in the 7-10 range. The Flesch 
score is a percentage. The higher the value, the better the readability.

FD Word Statistics Plugin

Shows word and sentence counts plus a readability analysis of the post currently being edited using three different readability measurements.

Weather Write vs FD Word Statistics Plugin