There was a post last week about a weather API, so I thought I'd share mine as we had some major updates. This is a historical reanalysis data (ERA5 from ECMWF

There was a post last week about a weather API, so I thought I'd share mine as we had some major updates. This is a historical reanalysis data (ERA5 from ECMWF) post-processed for fast time-series access. The primary dataset is a gridded (0.25 x 0.25 lat/lon) dataset covering the entire world so the data can be extracted for any arbitrary location. Later this year, a higher resolution dataset (0.1 x 0.1 lat/lon, about 9km x 9km) will also be added. I've been working on this because I believe having access to historical weather is important for us to understand how climate is changing where we live. I'm not a programmer by training so it's a little rough around the edges but I believe it's the largest repository of weather data outside the primary sources, with 50+ weather parameters covering 70+ years with hourly resolution. It should be about 10~100x faster than getting the data directly from the source, and without having to deal with NetCDF/GRIB formats. All in all, it's about 100~200TB of data that's been post-processed/chunked to Zarr format, with about 1TB/day on-going. Current users are mostly analysts who occasionally need large volume of data and don't really have time to go to the primary sources. We've just rolled out a feature to request multiple locations also request regional data (returns the data in NetCDF format) although most users seem to be happy with querying for single locations at a time. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.