Pull Current Weather Temperature in Field Maps Form

Question

Is there a way to pull the current weather conditions into a form created in Field Maps?

I have an inspection form that requires the current location's temperature, and I was seeing if that information could be pulled in when they open a new inspection.

KerriRasmussen · Answer

Hi and thank you for your question! I used some weather station data from The Living Atlas and added it to my map. Then I used this Arcade expression to pull the temperature from the nearest station:

var weatherStations = FeatureSetByName($map, "Stations")

var nearestStation = First(Intersects(weatherStations, BufferGeodetic($feature, 10, 'miles')))

return nearestStation.TEMP + "°F"

I hope you find this helpful.

sjones_esriau · Answer

Yes, a similar question was asked last year:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-field-maps-questions/automatically-include-current-weather-conditions/m-p/1192082

SteveOwens · Answer

You could try connecting with the Surface Weather Observations from the National Weather Service GIS Portal: https://www.weather.gov/gis/. Though it will only show you the near real time conditions at an airport. Lots of other cool data though, worth exploring.