Overview

What the heck is a temperature blanket?

A temperature blanket is a blanket where each row or section represents each day of a year using different yarn colours for different conditions. For more details, see here

What is this project?

My wife is a big fan of making temperature blankets, but she would screenshot her weather app each day and have to sort through historical screenshots when she wanted to do a stretch of days on the blanket. This project accomplishes a couple of things:

• Query the historical weather API at worldweatheronline and cache the results from January 1st of the current year until yesterday inclusive
• Cross-reference a 'colour index' CSV file that maps colours to temperature ranges
• Generates a report for each month that shows the:
  • Daily high
  • Daily low
  • Selected temperature for the blanket (absolute highest wins)
  • Daily colour
  • A monthly total of each colour, to assist with yarn purchases
• Generated report will be generated here under 'temperature_blanket.html'

Getting started

You will need a couple of things:

• API key for worldweatheronline
  • Saved as environment variable WEATHER_BLANKET_API_KEY
• (Optional) path to colour index CSV file
  • Defaults to 'colour_index.csv'
  • Feel free to use the provided 'colour_index.csv' for the format of the CSV file you need to follow

Potential future enhancements

• Right now the location for the weather API uses the public IP of the running machine, but a location string could be passed in instead
• Customizable year input (uses the current year now)