weather

What This Skill Does

The Weather skill provides OpenClaw agents with the ability to retrieve real-time atmospheric data and long-term forecasts without the need for personal API keys. By leveraging two highly efficient public APIs—wttr.in for human-readable, formatted strings and Open-Meteo for machine-readable JSON data—this skill ensures that your agent can handle everything from quick conversational updates to complex data-driven weather analysis. The skill is designed for versatility, allowing the agent to switch between descriptive text outputs and structured coordinate-based queries dynamically.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/asterisk622/xiaoding-weather

Ensure that your environment has curl installed, as this is the underlying mechanism used for all network requests initiated by the skill.

Use Cases

• Personal Assistant: Providing daily briefings or packing suggestions based on temperature and humidity.
• Travel Planning: Checking the current climate conditions for a specific destination using airport codes or city names.
• Automation Pipelines: Incorporating weather data into scripts that trigger alerts for adverse conditions, such as freezing temperatures or high wind speeds.
• Data Exploration: Fetching structured JSON weather reports for historical or predictive analysis using Open-Meteo data sets.

Example Prompts

1. "What is the current weather in London, and what can I expect for the rest of the day?"
2. "Check the weather for JFK airport and tell me if I should expect rain before my flight."
3. "Fetch the current temperature and wind speed for coordinates 51.5, -0.12 using the fallback service."

Tips & Limitations

• URL Encoding: When searching for cities with spaces, ensure you replace them with a plus sign (e.g., San+Francisco).
• Unit Preferences: Append ?m for Metric or ?u for USCS units to customize the wttr.in output.
• Fallback Strategy: While wttr.in is perfect for chat interfaces, prioritize Open-Meteo for tasks requiring automated logic due to its stable JSON schema.
• Limitations: The skill relies on external public APIs; service uptime is managed by third parties. For mission-critical applications, consider implementing local caching of requests to avoid rate-limiting or service outages.