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Weather Data
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:41 pm
by evilmonkey
Can anyone tell me where I can get good weather data (current conditions and forcast) for the world's major cities? I don't need it for me (there's theweathernetwork and such for that), I need to incorporate it into my program. Because of that, the data needs to be pretty raw. I'm thinking of loading some webpage, throwing its contents into a veriable, and then using string functions to get the data I need. But I don't want to load huge weathernetwork pages (I doubt that's even legal), so who can I tell me a place I can legally get raw weather data?
Thanks!
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:13 pm
by josh
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:14 pm
by Ambush Commander
Last I checked, the
national weather service should be a good place for comprehensive AND public domain weather information. You may need to write your own parsers.
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:38 am
by evilmonkey
Is there anything worldwide? I know there are METARs (for aircraft), those are public domain, and I even know how to read them (which is actually quite a feat because a metar looks something like this: CYYZ 251300Z 27009KT 15SM FEW030 FEW070 M07/M09 A2992 RMK SC1AC1 SLP144) However, these only provide current conditions, not forecasts. The NWS weather service (
http://weather.noaa.gov/) has international weather, but again, no forecasts.
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:20 am
by Ambush Commander
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.p ... 1&site=okx
Really?
As for worldwide, you'll probably have to cobble together the forecasts from different governmental organizations to stay in the domain of using public domain forecasts.
Edit - I see what you mean... the first link only is for local forecasts. Once again, you'll have to cobble them together.