weather

Historical Forecast or Observed Weather Data Source

I'm looking for an API that provides recent, 3-hourly temperatures... either observed or forecasted. To be clear, I'm looking for data from the past... like 'yesterday'. Free or paid is fine. International or US only is fine. Lookup by long/lat, zip, city doesn't matter either. Any suggestions? ...

Is there a Ruby client for the US National Weather Service data?

Hi, The only US weather data that is available free for commercial use is the US National Weather Service. I'd like to use it. Is there a Ruby/Rails library for accessing it? Perl would also be helpful. They provide a Perl example. I'd use it as a guide for writing the Ruby version. ...

Weather API with date parameter

Hi All, I am looking for a weather api that I can query by latlng and date. The date seems to be the hard part. All the APIs seem to only return the weather at he current day and/or week. I also need it to work worldwide and not just in the US. Can anybody suggest one? Ideally i'd like to use Google or Yahoo but i don't think they p...

Is there any API that provides weather information in XML?

I was wondering if there is an API that provides weather information in XML format, providing only City and Country. It's even better if it has a way to return results based on IP Address. ...

Undocumented Yahoo! Weather API?

According to the Yahoo! Weather API documentation, a WOEID must be provided to obtain weather information for a specific region. The WOEID can be obtained by using the Yahoo! GeoPlanet service. If I have a zip code, this is two API calls to obtain weather information. Get the WOEID from a zip code: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places....

what is hectoPascAltimeter

what is hectoPascAltimeter, is it air pressure in mbars? check http://ws.geonames.org/findNearByWeatherXML?lat=43&lng=-2 ...

Show wind direction on Google Maps

I calculated the wind direction and now I want to show the wind direction pointing to 144 degrees (on compass). How can I show this arrow on Google Maps? ...

Yahoo Weather, Yahoo GeoPlant, Google Weather or another API to connect to with javascript?

I need a way to get the current weather back for a certain city with javascript? Which API would I be better to use? Or are there any other apps that you can use an ajax request to get the current weather? GeoPlanit required an appid so I haven't tried this yet and yahoo weather is an RSS feed. I have also read that Google's weather API...

how to store weather data with JPA

The project is required to sotre large weather data (http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/igra/) into file system with JPA. I mean disk files. How to store those data. For example, how to organize the files? So that we can retrieve those files for retrieving. Thanks very much ...

Are there any weather *history* apis?

There are plenty of weather APIs that allow you to find forecasts, but I'm looking for weather history. Specifically, if I have a lat/lng and a timestamp, I'm looking to find the weather at that moment in that location in the past. I've looked through many different APIs including the National Weather Service and Weather Underground, bu...

how to get nearby city for weather forecast

i am developing one application with map view i need display the weather depends on user place how can i get the weather report depending on the user lat and lon Thanks Aswan ...

How to Get Current Weather via Web Services

I am attempting to get the current weather given a zip code or a set of latitude/longitude coordinates. It appears that best practice to do this (and how NOAA does it) is to get the XML feed for a weather station. Example: http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KEDW.xml The only problem is that NOAA doesn't provide a good way to fi...

International weather API (PHP)

I'm looking for the best (free/cheap) international weather PHP API out there. Any suggestions? ...

Weather API for web app

Hi, In the weather.com site it has forecast for 10 days. For example, in this url: http://www.weather.com/weather/narrative/GRXX0004 I cannot seem to find a feed for that kind of data. Could I pull a feed for each one of those days? Is there something I am missing? How could I easily parse data for 10 days? Thank you! ...

Get weather from Yahoo with jQuery

I'm using the Google API to get a user's location on this site. How would I go about getting the weather for that user from Yahoo or somewhere? UPDATE: Ok so I'm going with Yahoo, but I've never done an HTTP GET request before. Im using jQuery and the following code: function getWeather () { $.get("http://weather.yahooapis....

Free Weather API for Company Websites.

I am looking for a Weather API Provider for a company web site that is free of charge. Google API is unofficial, Yahoo and Wetter.com are for personal Websites only, so they don't fit my needs. ...

integrate / build 'weather radar' widget

I'm looking to integrate a 'weather radar' widget into a site I'm building. The only available resource I can find is: http://www.meteoonline.co.uk/gadgets/Europe/Netherlands/135 which basically delivers a flash mov in a iframe ! urrrgh! - and 'permission denied' of course with any javascript interaction on the iframe.. Can anyone s...

Angle and Length of Wind Barb Flags

I am working on an application that displays surface winds. Wind speed and direction will be displayed using "wind barb" symbols, as described here: Plotted Winds My question: Are there any standards for the angles and lengths of the "flags" in relation to the wind-barb "pole"? Eyeballing the diagrams I've seen, I think that an angle...

Weather API to mobile platform

Hello everybody! I would like to ask from you guys/girls somebody used radar image api in MOBILE PLATFORM? I got some good provider but the user agreement don`t allow to use it in mobile platform. Even some good weather forecast API exists? (with moon phase,5-7 days forecast) and radar images ? Maybe search by US zip code? ...

United States Weather Radar Data Feed/API?

Is there a government or private API for accessing weather radar data in the United States? ...