The weather module provides a WeatherService that you can copy into your station’s ServiceContainer. Providing that the station has Internet connectivity, or is on a NiagaraNetwork with a Supervisor using the WeatherService, this can provide current weather conditions, as well as forecast conditions, for one or more locales. Other components to calculate current solar and lunar data are also included.

Starting in AX-3.6, air quality properties and views are also provided, and additional weather advisory enhancements were made. See What’s new in the AX-3.6 weather module for an overview.

Typical usage is for U.S. locales, where weather information comes from the U.S. NWS (National Weather Service), a division of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). See National Weather Service notes for additional technical details. However, starting in AX-3.7 (build 3.7.104 or later), international weather support is available. See What’s new in the AX-3.7 weather module .

Figure 1 shows a WeatherService that contains three different U.S. locales, or WeatherReports.

In this example, the Nav side bar shows one of the three WeatherReports (“Richmond”) expanded, showing child weather components listed. These components are typical to most WeatherReport locales.

While an NWS WeatherReport (locale) has an active advisory, it appears in the Weather Manager view in alarm, with a red colored row.