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What can I ask? Beta

Copy-paste prompts for the most common things people do with the WeatherOptics plugin in ChatGPT. Swap in your own places, times, and assets — and then go off-script. (Not set up yet? Start with the setup tutorial.)

The #1 tip: make sure the plugin is actually used. Two equally good ways:

Tag it: type @WeatherOptics in the message box and pick the plugin from the popup — this guarantees the WeatherOptics tools are used (paid plans).
Say it: start your prompt with "Using WeatherOptics, …" — works on every plan; the examples below all do this.

Skip both and ChatGPT sometimes ignores plugins — for plain weather questions it will quietly answer from its own data instead of ours.

Heads up: if a response says something like a "WeatherOptics-style assessment" (or otherwise hedges about the source), ChatGPT is hallucinating — it did not call the WeatherOptics tools, and the numbers are not our data. Re-ask with @WeatherOptics or "Using WeatherOptics, …" to force a real tool call. Genuine responses cite specific tool results and use the canonical low / moderate / high / extreme bands verbatim.

1 Map over a location

Ask for any WeatherOptics map layer — road risk, flood, wind, radar, wildfire — over a place or a whole region, and the rendered map appears inline in the chat. Add "animated" for motion: forecast layers animate the next 96 hours, and radar loops the past 30 minutes. Or ask for an interactive map to get pan/zoom, a layer picker, auto-play, and a time bar spanning the full 7-day hourly forecast (radar steps in 10-minute frames through its ~4-hour futurecast).

Using WeatherOptics, show me an animated flood-risk map over the whole Midwest.

Using WeatherOptics, show me an interactive road-risk map around Chicago.

You get back: a rendered map, right in the conversation.

2 Weather variable or risk score at a location

The simplest ask: a number and what it means, for one place or several. Risk answers use the canonical WeatherOptics severity bands — low / moderate / high / extreme — with the official WeatherOptics description for each score.

Using WeatherOptics, tell me the flood risk in Houston for the next 3 days.

Using WeatherOptics, what will the wind gusts be in Amarillo and Lubbock tomorrow?

You get back: a short text summary plus a table.

Weather-variable questions can be finicky — naming the variable explicitly ("wind gusts", "snowfall", "heat index") works better than "the weather".

3 Time-series chart for a location

Ask for a graph of any weather variable or risk index over time. The plugin returns the hourly series and ChatGPT charts it natively.

Using WeatherOptics, give me a precipitation graph for Seattle for the next 5 days.

You get back: an hourly chart, plus the peaks called out in text.

4 Route impact forecast

Give an origin, a destination, and a departure time, and get a RightRoute forecast with an interpretation layer on top: hazard callouts telling you what, where along the route, and when, an overall hazard level, and pointers to official guidance. It also works for past trips — ask about yesterday's drive and it reconstructs the conditions as they actually were. And the route can be drawn on an inline map, colored by the hazard at the time the driver reaches each point.

Using WeatherOptics, I'm driving from Denver to Salt Lake City tomorrow at 6 am — what weather delays should I expect, where, and when?

Using WeatherOptics, create a weather-aware route map from D.C. to Atlanta this Friday.

You get back: travel time and expected slowdown, hazard-by-hazard callouts with where/when — and, if you ask for a map, the route drawn hazard-colored inline.

5 Severe weather near a location

Ask what's brewing near a place: next-hour hail / tornado / damaging-wind cells, storms and hurricanes days out, and official government weather alerts.

Using WeatherOptics, what severe storms are around Oklahoma City right now?

Using WeatherOptics, will it hail on me in the next hour? I'm in Wichita.

You get back: nearby events sorted closest-first, with severity, headline, and timing for each.

Questions here don't always map one-to-one onto a single data product — if the first answer isn't quite what you meant, a follow-up ("what about official alerts?", "anything further out this week?") usually gets there.

6 Which of my assets are at risk?

Attach a CSV of your sites (name + address or coordinates), or just refer to your saved WeatherOptics locations or fleet vehicles, and get a ranked risk report across the WeatherOptics indices — flood, road, life & property, disruption, power.

Using WeatherOptics, which of my attached warehouses are at risk over the next 7 days?

Using WeatherOptics, check my saved locations — which ones face high risk this week?

You get back: a ranked report of your sites, worst risk first, with when each peak hits.

Searching your saved locations (and place-name lookup) temporarily requires a portal token — see the note in the setup tutorial. Attached CSVs work with any token.

Go off-script

These six are starting points, not the menu. Everything composes in one conversation:

Mix them — check severe weather near your route, then ask for the route map, then chart the wind at your destination.
Ask follow-ups — "where exactly?", "when does it peak?", "show that on a map".
Change the framing — "should I move the delivery to Thursday?" works just as well as "what's the road risk?".

The plugin is in Beta: if something comes back weird, missing, or just not what you asked for, please tell the WeatherOptics team — real transcripts are exactly what makes this better. The full list of what's under the hood is on the tools reference page.