Met Éireann website widgets
The following widgets are provided to allow you to include official weather information from Met Éireann on your own website. To insert these widgets on your website simply copy and paste the code with each widget to your own website.
Local Observations Widgets
Example- widget with county dropdown option
Two options are available:
https://www.met.ie/widgets/observations/ this gives the user a choice to select a condensed version of the current observations of our weather stations from a drop-down.
To use this widget, copy and paste the code below to use on your website:
<iframe style=”border: 0px #ccc solid;” src=”https://www.met.ie/widgets/observations/” name=”MEWarning” width=”225″ height=”170″ frameborder=”0″ marginwidth=”0px” marginheight=”0px” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”></iframe>
Example- Set county widget
https://www.met.ie/widgets/county/galway this is a permanent county widget with a condensed version current observations for each county in the Republic of Ireland. Here is the example for Galway, just change the county name at the end of that url as required.
To use this widget, copy and paste the code below to use on your website:
<iframe style=”border: 0px #ccc solid;” src=”https://www.met.ie/widgets/county/xxx” name=”MEWarning” width=”225″ height=”170″ frameborder=”0″ marginwidth=”0px” marginheight=”0px” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span></iframe>
replace xxx with the full county name
Each widget will display the latest weather observation for your selected county.
Use of this widget is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
- Met Éireann retains Intellectual Property Rights and copyright over our data.
- Met Éireann must be acknowledged (attributed) as the source.
- Met Éireann does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use.
- Please see here for further details.
Weather Warnings Widget
This widget displays valid colour-coded current weather warnings for Ireland. If a user clicks her/his county on the maps they will be directed to a warnings page on met.ie for their county. The warnings system is explained here.
| Copy and paste the code below to use on your website
<iframe style=”border: 1px #ccc solid;” src=”https://www.met.ie/widgets/national” name=”MEWarning” width=”300″ height=”425″ frameborder=”1″ marginwidth=”0px” marginheight=”0px” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”></iframe> |
This service is considered open data.
- Met Éireann retains Intellectual Property Rights and copyright over our data.
- Met Éireann must be acknowledged as the source.
- Met Éireann does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use.
- You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
- You are free to Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material. However, you may not make any material change or modification. Weather Warnings must be kept up to date and expired warnings must be removed. Material change may not be made to the following warnings characteristics: Time of issue, onset, and expiration; Geographical area; Description; Severity; Certainty; Event; Headline
- Full licence details are available here