This is an app that displays observations and forecasts from the Met Office DataPoint service.

You will need to set these environment variables:

export FLASK_APP=application.py
export DATAPOINT_API_KEY=<datapoint-api-key>

You can get an API key from the Met Office DataPoint site

If running the app locally you will also need to set

export FLASK_ENV=development

The app needs a PostgreSQL database in order to run. Create a database - by default, the app expects to find a database called wxd at this URI - postgresql://localhost/wxd. You can change that by setting the SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI environment variable.

Run the migrations to create the tables: flask db upgrade.

Make sure that you have followed the steps above, then run the import_data function found in app/data_import.py.

Once the stages above have been completed, flask run will start the app running at http://localhost:5000