This is the first in a series of posts introducing the all-brand-new Colby Echo site’s features. If you have any questions, you can ask them here.

We want students to use TheColbyEcho.com as their go-to place for everything Colby. And because we are fortunate enough to go to school in Maine where weather is such a wonderful part of everyday life, we decided it would be super-helpful to give Colby students up-to-date weather reports.

We’re using the Weather Underground API, which is an absolute dream. Weather Underground will give you a simple XML output for any zip code, city, or airport which you can then parse to your liking.

We hope that the new weather feature will benefit students’ lives at Colby. If you have any suggestions, we would love to hear them!