NAME

Weather::Com::Wind - class containing wind data

SYNOPSIS

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  use Weather::Com::Finder;

  # you have to fill in your ids from weather.com here
  my $PartnerId  = 'somepartnerid';
  my $LicenseKey = 'mylicense';

  my %weatherargs = (
	'partner_id' => $PartnerId,
	'license'    => $LicenseKey,
	'language'   => 'de',
  );

  my $weather_finder = Weather::Com::Finder->new(%weatherargs);
  
  my @locations = $weather_finder->find('Heidelberg');

  my $currconditions = $locations[0]->current_conditions();

  print "Wind comes from ", $currconditions->wind()->direction_long(), "\n";
  print "and its speed is", $currconditions->wind()->speed(), "\n";  

DESCRIPTION

Via Weather::Com::Wind one can access speed and direction (in degrees, short and long textual description) of the wind. Wind is usually an object belonging to current conditions or to a forecast (not implemented yet).

This class will not be updated automatically with each call to one of its methods. You need to call the wind() method of the parent object again to update your object.

CONSTRUCTOR

You usually would not construct an object of this class yourself. This is implicitely done when you call the wind() method of one current conditions or forecast object.

METHODS

speed()

Returns the wind speed.

direction_degrees()

Returns the direction of the wind in degrees.

direction_short()

Returns the direction of the wind as wind mnemonic (N, NW, E, etc.).

These directions are being translated if you specified a language in the parameters you provided to your Weather::Com::Finder.

direction_long()

Returns the direction of the wind as long textual description (North, East, Southwest, etc.).

These directions are being translated if you specified a language in the parameters you provided to your Weather::Com::Finder.

AUTHOR

Thomas Schnuecker, <thomas@schnuecker.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Thomas Schnuecker

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The data provided by weather.com and made accessible by this OO interface can be used for free under special terms. Please have a look at the application programming guide of weather.com (http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html)!