Your local weather forecast now on a website near you

Your local weather forecast now on a website near you

MetService has launched a new weather ‘widget’ to make local forecasts freely available on any organisational website.

Free to download, the widget enables web managers to choose a 1, 2 or 3 day forecast for their chosen New Zealand town or city, then configure its size and design and insert it into their website via a simple Javascript embed code.

"We get quite a few requests to provide data for simple forecasts that can be used on websites run by local councils and tourism operators," says MetService General Manager Corporate Affairs Jacqui Bridges.

"The new widget means we can make these simple forecasts available to a much wider group of websites, with no set-up time required at our end, and with a fresh design and tested method that makes it easy for webmasters to display the data accurately," says Bridges.

The weather widget is aimed at organisations whose online audience would find a single location forecast relevant and useful. As well as a forecast icon and max/min forecast temperatures, the widget also includes a Severe Weather alert which enables users to click through to get full details of any watches and warnings in force for that location.

Ohope Beach Top 10 Holiday Park is one of the early adopters of the new feature on its website: http://www.ohopebeach.co.nz/

Additional locations and other data are available for purchase if required.

For more information and to use the widget on your website, visit http://about.metservice.com/our-company/weather-on-your-website/weather-widget/

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