hourly weather forecast data

Wildman best_lay at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 13 00:24:35 EDT 2016


On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 23:36:26 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:

> Is there a way to get hourly weather forecast data (temperature,
> chance of precipitation) from the command line in Debian Linux?
> 
> Basically, I am trying to write a python program that will send myself
> an email if it is going to rain at say 7:00 am the next day. The idea
> is to trigger the emails only on rainy days (but not on all days).
> 
> Currently, I check for this manually at
> https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Hackensack%2C+NJ&MR=1
> . However, the website only shows graphs but does not give any data.
> Checking the website every day is laborious.
> 
> raju

If you have your own weather station, there is wview and WeeWX.
Otherwise, this might be what you are looking for:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/wct/

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