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Agree. I have trusted the Environment Canada forecasts for years. Web and basic app. The government-issued stuff isn't as featureful or pretty as some apps, but
by emptybits 4y ago
Agree. I have trusted the Environment Canada forecasts for years. Web and basic app. The government-issued stuff isn't as featureful or pretty as some apps, but I go back to it every time because its track record here (Vancouver) has been good to me.
I wish there was an API or non-scraping approach to retrieve the daily & hourly forecasts. With the popularity of open data policies on tax-funded public data... it seems there should be.
- bpye 4y agoI'm pretty sure this - https://api.weather.gc.ca/ https://api.weather.gc.ca/ - is what you're looking for. It looks like they expose lots of data via an API, including the 7 day forecast. For example this should be the Vancouver forecast - https://dd.weather.gc.ca/citypage_weather/xml/BC/s0000141_e.xml https://dd.weather.gc.ca/citypage_weather/xml/BC/s0000141_e.... I think this is the hourly data - though in a slightly odd format - https://dd.weather.gc.ca/nowcasting/matrices/ https://dd.weather.gc.ca/nowcasting/matrices/ Edit: Aha found the nowcast docs - https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-data/nwp_nowcasting/readme_nowcasting-datamart_en/ https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-data/nwp_nowcasting...
- emptybits 4y agoNice! That hourly data link ("*matrices") looks easy enough to parse. Thank you!