I feel fortunate to find monks who follow what I'm developing in perl, indeed make it possible to do so at a much greater rate than I could by myself. What I have been seeking is perl ways to figure out whether the sun is going to be on you at a given latitude, longitude, and elevation. These scripts have had the input values hard-coded at the beginning:

## important...no trailing zeroes else 301 error
# weston 41.37,-83.65
my $lat  = 41.37;
my $long = -83.65;
my $elev = .208;      # 676 ft = .206 +.02 for observer  #km
$logger->info("$lat $long $elev");

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Instead of running this script on my machine, I want to host it on my site, so that anyone who wants to see output from it may do so. I have to make the disappointing caveat that this script will be drawing from NOAA and therefore US-specific. I don't mean to exclude anyone; indeed, weather in the US is sometimes best-enjoyed as a spectator sport. (The price is right too!)

So, some output will be undefined depending on whether the input data are well-conditioned. Beyond the forecasts that I have been pulling up on threads like getting Sun info with Astro::Coord::ECI::Sun, I want to include just the general sun data from perl, beginning with something like:

# Set up observer's location
my $loc = Astro::Coord::ECI->geodetic( deg2rad($lat), deg2rad($long), 
+$elev );

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Now, for the page itself, I have now constructed many using perl and by scratch, but I would like to be able to do this with Mojo if the shoe fits right.

Q1) Does this sound like a good use for Mojo? If not, what are alternatives?

Q2) Given latitude and longitude, does anyone know a perl way to determine how high the ground/water is at that point?

Thanks for your comment.

In reply to creating a webpage to fetch/calculate weather data by Aldebaran

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