🌤️ openclaw-tempest-weather-skill

An OpenClaw skill that fetches live weather data from a WeatherFlow Tempest station on demand and returns structured JSON.

What it does

Ask your OpenClaw agent anything about current conditions and it will call the Tempest REST API and return clean, normalized JSON covering:

• Conditions — temperature (°C/°F), humidity, barometric pressure, pressure trend
• Wind — average, lull, gust (m/s and mph), direction (degrees + cardinal)
• Precipitation — rain last hour, daily total, precipitation type (rain/hail/none)
• Lightning — strike count, last strike distance, 1hr and 3hr totals
• Solar — UV index, solar radiation, illuminance

Requirements

• Python 3
• curl or requests (pip install requests)
• A Tempest Personal Access Token and Station ID

Setup

1. Get your credentials

Generate a token at tempestwx.com → Settings → Data Authorizations → Create Token.

Find your Station ID:

curl -s "https://swd.weatherflow.com/swd/rest/stations?token=YOUR_TOKEN" | python3 -m json.tool

Look for "station_id" in the response.

2. Set environment variables

Add these to your ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc):

export TEMPEST_TOKEN="your_token_here"
export TEMPEST_STATION_ID="your_station_id_here"

Then reload: source ~/.zshrc

3. Install the skill

clawhub install tempest-weather

Or manually copy the skill folder to your OpenClaw workspace:

scp -r tempest-weather magpie@your-host.local:~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/

Example interactions

"What's the weather at my station?"

"Is it raining?"

"How windy is it right now?"

"Any lightning nearby?"

"What's the UV index?"

Output schema

{
  "station_id": 12345,
  "station_name": "My Backyard",
  "timestamp": "2024-01-15T14:32:00Z",
  "conditions": {
    "temperature_c": 18.5,
    "temperature_f": 65.3,
    "humidity_pct": 62,
    "pressure_mb": 1013.4,
    "pressure_trend": "steady"
  },
  "wind": {
    "speed_avg_ms": 3.2,
    "speed_avg_mph": 7.2,
    "speed_gust_ms": 5.8,
    "speed_gust_mph": 13.0,
    "direction_deg": 247,
    "direction_cardinal": "WSW"
  },
  "precipitation": {
    "rain_last_1hr_mm": 0.0,
    "rain_daily_mm": 2.4,
    "precip_type": "none"
  },
  "lightning": {
    "strike_count_interval": 0,
    "strike_count_last_1hr": 0,
    "last_strike_distance_km": null
  },
  "solar": {
    "uv_index": 3,
    "solar_radiation_wm2": 412,
    "illuminance_lux": 28500
  },
  "battery_volts": 2.42
}

Files

tempest-weather/
├── SKILL.md                    # Skill instructions and frontmatter
├── scripts/
│   └── fetch_tempest.py        # Standalone fetch + normalize script
└── references/
    └── obs_fields.md           # Full field reference and unit conversions

License

MIT