So the next portion of this project will be a departure from the faithful Arduino in favor of the Raspberry Pi. I'll load it up with Raspian and Apache web server. This will serve as the brains behind my system and serve up the user interface. The web-based U/I will allow me control from anywhere.
Also, I may write some software that uses the weather forecast data to gain an edge in system efficiency. I found this data source for custom generated XML weather forecasts via NOAA.GOV:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/xml...lon=-122.25500
If you study the URL, you'll see that you can change the lat/lon coordinates, duration and time interval to suit your particular needs:
HTML Code:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/xml/xml.php?duration=48&interval=1&lat=45.63200&lon=-122.25500