New forecast data upgrade for the Météo website (#5)

Following a recent update to the France Météo site I was forced to upgrade the parsing logic that underpins the web app implementation that I have.

In the process I decided to incorporate a few new features and leverage a lot of new data that is now available from the Météo service.

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The changes

  1. Sun/moon rise set information is now available at the top of the screen and will appear to the left of any weather warnings for the area.
  2. The intra-day forecasting intervals have been shortened to 3hrs (from 6hrs) and have more descriptive titles regarding their validity periods. This gives users a better idea when they need to move their garden furniture inside before the storm hits ;)
  3. New icons and probabilities shown for rain and storm forecasting. This is shown intra-day for short term forecasts and only in summary format for long term.
  4. I've removed the confidence value as I thought it didn't really help at all. The further away from today the forecast the inherently more inaccurate it is (that's it).

Examples

Short term forecasting changes

Short term forecasting changes

Long term forecasting changes

Long term forecasting changes

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