As requested, a fairly rough and ready proof of concept using Mojo:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use feature 'say';
use Mojo::UserAgent;
use DateTime::Format::Strptime;
use open ':std', OUT => ':utf8';

my $url = 'https://api.weather.gov/stations/KPDX/observations/latest';

# the API docs says you must identify yourself, please make this somet
+hing legit
my $name = '(example.com, contact@example.com)';
my $ua = Mojo::UserAgent->new;
$ua->transactor->name( $name );

# get JSON response
my $json =  $ua->get( $url )->res->json->{properties};

# for each cloud....
foreach my $cloud ( @{$json->{cloudLayers}} ){
  say "$cloud->{amount}, $cloud->{base}{value}";
}

# JD from JSON timestamp
my $format = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new( pattern => '%FT%T%z');
my $dt = $format->parse_datetime( $json->{timestamp} );
say 'Julian Day: ' . $dt->jd;

my $pturl  = 'http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yoursky?z=1&lat=45.5183&
+ns=North&lon=122.676&ew=West';

# you wanted Julian date so it looks like date should be '2' from the 
+source.
my $tx = $ua->post( $pturl => form => { utc => $dt->jd, date => '2' } 
+);
my $sunrow = $tx->res->dom->at('center:nth-of-type(3) table tr:nth-of-
+type(3)');

# output
say 'Name:'      . $sunrow->children->[0]->all_text;
say 'Altitude: ' . $sunrow->children->[4]->text;
say 'Azimuth: '  . $sunrow->children->[5]->text;
say 'Visible: '  . $sunrow->children->[6]->text;

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Output:

FEW, 760
SCT, 3350
BKN, 7620
Julian Day: 2458982.28680556
Name: Sun
Altitude: 61.520
Azimuth: 21.289
Visible: Up

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There may be some typos in there, chalk that one up to the time of day here. Let me know if there are any problems.

Update: for the 'Name' switch to all_text from text.

In reply to Re: polishing up a json fetching script for weather data by marto
in thread polishing up a json fetching script for weather data by Aldebaran

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