Weather web service for Europe?

Question

We are looking for a reliable "current weather" web service for Europe, with city resolution. We only need the current weather.

Since it is for a commercial web site, we don't mind paying a reasonable fee for the service.

What are our options? What service would you recommend or avoid based on previous experience?

Note: SOAP Web Service, XML RPC, REST, all are fine.

Answer 1

You should be able to interface with Yahoo weather Europe like the team of the weather plasmoid did. Or if you only need to add it to a web page you could use directly this gadget

Answer 2

http://www.weather2u.com provide a commercial service with global coverage. However they, like most global weather sites use model derived data from the NOAA National Weather Service, the accuracy of which compares unfavourably with local national weather services, especially for coastal regions.

Answer 3

Get it direct from the UK's Meteorological Office. they provide datafeeds for the world in several formats. If you prefer european dedicated feeds (of which the UK provides data anyway), you want to check ecomet

Answer 4

After a long search it seems that the only alternative is weather.com.

Answer 5

The US NOAA has coded METAR information available for cities worldwide. Given the ICAO airport code for the city in question (eg. EGLL for London) you can quickly get a METAR report.

Answer 6

I would use google weather feed ;) I have not found how to read it out but it clearly is great source http://stackoverflow.com/questions/323982/how-to-parse-xml-in-javascript-from-google

Answer 7

Weather Underground is a successful weather site that cover most of the world. We've used their data sometimes at work. They offer weather XML feeds and API which includes access to current observations.