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Being Equestrians ourselves we spend everyday pouring over the weather forecast. How cold will it go overnight? Will it rain today? We do this all in service of making the right choices for the myriad of decisions we have to make everyday! From which rug to put on through to deciding when to bring in - weather is always on our mind!
To help everyone with their weather addiction we’re introducing ‘Weather Forecasts’ into At The Yard. It’ll be visible on any calendar view (shown below) throughout the product for both customers & staff.
Whilst not designed to replace your favourite weather app, it’ll now show the overall weather condition and the high/low temperature for the day. Enough, at-least, to keep you roughly informed with only a glance!
This weather feature is powered by https://darksky.net/ who’s mobile app we’ve been using personally for years and so we’re excited to be bringing that data into At The Yard.
We’re also using the excellent Climacon weather icons created by Adam Whitcroft (http://adamwhitcroft.com/climacons/) which you’ll see on all our forecasts.
There is a small bit of one off setup you have to do as a yard owner to get this working. Simply go to Admin —> Yard Config. Once there, click on the Edit button under Location. If you then scroll down to the Location For Weather section and enter the Latitude and Longitude for your yards location. To find this out we just did a quick Google search (https://www.google.com/search?q=latitude+and+longitude+finder) and used one of the sites to convert the location to Lat/Long. Once you’ve done it once it’ll be available for all your customers to see.