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Jun 20 2008

Weather API? I need history...

Posted by Russell Brown at 2:24 PM
6 comments - Categories: Development

I'm working on a side project that is racing related and I need to retrieve weather data for upwards of the last two years or at least all of 2007.

I don't want weather forcasts, thats easy to find. I'm looking for a weather report for what happened on dayX at zip code or lat/lon X/X. Even better would be if I could give more specific time information...

Does anyone have experience with a product that will allow me access to this information?

TIA

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Raymond Camden

Raymond Camden wrote on 06/20/08 2:50 PM

Can't help - but I want this as well so I'm subscribing. Last time I looked for this I was never able to find it.
Daniel Garcia

Daniel Garcia wrote on 06/20/08 3:10 PM

I am looking for this too.
Ryan

Ryan wrote on 06/20/08 3:11 PM

I didn't look real deep, but it looks like the National Climate Center has data going back to the 1800s. You might try looking there. You might try looking here: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/mpp/digitalfiles.html Also, I happen to be in Iowa and Iowa State University offers a TON of data through their Iowa Environmental Mesonet: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
Russell Brown

Russell Brown wrote on 06/20/08 4:28 PM

I have had a couple conversations with Weather Bug. They've asked me what I was looking for and said that they have had high interest in this type of feature... I'm still waiting for them to get back to me.

Otherwise the best I've come up with so far has bee the Farmers Almanac. No API though...
http://www.almanac.com/weatherhistory/custom/index.php
Russell Brown

Russell Brown wrote on 06/24/08 9:55 AM

It's not much other than a bone but a "get weather history" has been added to the feature list for Weather Bugs API.

Weather Bug Rep:
Russell
This is not a feature we have right now. Your feature request has been made and I will see what we can do to get it into the next release of our API. We do have a release planned for the second half of the year.
-Chris
gixxerblade

gixxerblade wrote on 07/06/08 11:17 AM

http://www.wunderground.com/
It should give you the info you need.

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