Weather Underground has been purchased by The Weather Company, and while I'll miss Wunderground it's nice that they have a pay-out for all their efforts.
They were called Weather Underground because they were taking the information available for free via NOAA and presenting it to everyone on this young system called "The Internet", and not asking for money. It was a passion project that grew up, and now it's passed on into the great beyond of Things Getting Bought Out.
The bad news is that they no longer have a "free" (probably supposed to be short-term) demo API that did everything we needed to do, and more. Current conditions, forecast, tide information, moon and sun information, it was amazing what information they would give out. This means that this system is now defunct.
While the most popular aspect of the Almost Real-Time Weather System was the moon information, I'm looking through systems to reinstate it. So far the following systems are on the radar:
And the piece de resistance, for the werewolves out there:
The missing information that I could get from just one call from Wunderground is tide estimates. This is not critical for most games, but damn I kind of want it now that I don't have it.
Updates as I have them.
Sorry about this, Mushers.