A small hobby dashboard for exploring hourly winter-weather data from the Google Weather API. It turns forecast ice, temperature, precipitation, and wind data into simple condition flags and an ice-and-wind risk score.
The score is a project-specific heuristic, not an official forecast or outage prediction. Use local National Weather Service guidance and emergency alerts for real-world decisions.
- Displays hourly ice, temperature, wind, and precipitation data.
- Highlights combinations that may be worth watching during freezing weather.
- Supports location search, browser geolocation, dark mode, and CSV/JSON export.
- Includes demo data so the interface can be explored without an API key.
This is a hobby project for watching local winter weather. Bug reports and small improvements are welcome, but the calculations are not safety advice.
Requirements: Node.js 18 or newer and a Google Cloud project with the Weather API enabled.
git clone https://github.com/GoWithitRoger/Local-Google-Weather.git
cd Local-Google-Weather
npm ci
cp .env.example .env
npm run devAdd your key to .env:
VITE_WEATHER_API_KEY=your_key_hereThe key is used by browser code, so restrict it in Google Cloud to the required APIs and expected website origins. The app also uses the Google Maps Geocoding API for location search.
npm run lint
npm run type-check
npm run buildThe dashboard combines estimated radial ice accretion with wind thresholds to produce a relative score from 0–100. The thresholds draw on common ice-storm impact categories, but the result has not been calibrated as an outage probability.
The implementation lives in src/utils/ and src/constants/ so the assumptions remain visible and
easy to adjust.
MIT. See LICENSE.