I actually solved this pretty easily after reading all the posts, but not exactly what was posted worked for me.
in the MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast module director, edit the MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast.js file.
under defaults, change
Endpoint:
From
“https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/onecall”
To
“https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall”
then use an api key created after you subscribed, this last step may or may not be needed, but coincidentally or not, the last api key I made after making the above change was what worked.