Weather Forecasting

When to Use

• Current weather → get_weather (no location param for home area)
• Future weather ("tomorrow", "this week") → get_weather_forecast
• Different city → pass location param (e.g., "Denver, CO")
• Vague/local references ("here", "near me") → call with NO location param

Named places (exact coordinates, not a geocoder guess)

• Camp / Chiricahua Mountains / Rustler Park → get_weather(location="camp") or get_weather_forecast(location="Chiricahua Mountains"). Resolves to Rustler Park at ~8,900 ft — 4,000 ft above home and often 20°F cooler. Live readings come from the Rustler Park station when it is configured.
• Never answer a camp/mountain question with Portal, AZ or Rodeo, NM weather — they are at the bottom of the mountain.
• Home (no location, "home", "the house", "Rodeo") → the user's own station, KNMRODEO33.
• Places and stations are edited in Settings → Weather → Weather Stations (stored in data/weather-places.json).

Around the area — get_weather(stations="local")

• "Did it rain last night?", "who got rain?", "how windy is it around the valley?" → stations="local": the user's watched stations with rain over the last 24h / today / 7 days, current wind + today's peak gust, distance and direction from home.
• A specific station the user names, e.g. one near a campsite for the length of a trip → get_weather(stations="KAZSANSI34") (comma-separate several). It does not need to be on the list. To keep an eye on it, schedule a follow-up that calls this again.
• Weather Underground area names are post-office towns ("San Simon" runs from the valley floor to the 9,000 ft crest) — judge a station by its elevation and distance, not its name.