On 8/24/2016 8:46 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they > want to now charge you $3/yr for the service.I'm getting DNS not found errors from anything in NOAA.GOV. anyways, 'climate' refers to historical averages by location/month/week/date. presumably the API involved here was for current weather conditions and forecast. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On 8/24/2016 2:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote:> On 8/24/2016 8:46 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they >> want to now charge you $3/yr for the service. > > I'm getting DNS not found errors from anything in NOAA.GOV.flushed my dns cache, now its working, whack.> > anyways, 'climate' refers to historical averages by > location/month/week/date. presumably the API involved here was for > current weather conditions and forecast.wait, that noaa.gov $3/person is saying thats what the National Weather service costs to provide annually. its not a fee. anyways, here's the bulletin saying the old weather.noaa.gov web api is discontinued http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm the raw data is now distributed here, http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/ -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On 8/24/2016 2:57 PM, John R Pierce wrote:> anyways, here's the bulletin saying the old weather.noaa.gov web api > is discontinued > http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm > > the raw data is now distributed here, > http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/actually, this sort of raw data is probably more parsable. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobextXml.php?sid=KSFO&num=48 or, the microcast for a specific lat/long, http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=36.9733&lon=-122.0358&FcstType=digitalDWML (whihc is this page in XML format http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=36.9733&lon=-122.0358&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=digital ) -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz