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Canadians, rejoice! Your tax payer dollars have afforded you a no-nonsense weather portal. Hourly projection, weather radar, jet stream, and satellite resources

Canadians, rejoice! Your tax payer dollars have afforded you a no-nonsense weather portal. Hourly projection, weather radar, jet stream, and satellite resources are all there, completely free, and often with an XML somewhere you can parse. https://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html https://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html

thatwasunusual 4y ago
Let the Norwegian tax payer dollars (or, kroner, really) chime in![0] [0] https://developer.yr.no/ https://developer.yr.no/
doctor_eval 4y ago
The Australian BoM has it too: http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml
- byyll 4y ago
  > The Bureau of Meteorology website does not currently support connections via HTTPS. Not enough tax for a (free) certificate.
  - defrost 4y ago
    They have HTTPS for subscription services and media releases - everything else is free to air public data with anon FTP servers .. not a lot of HTTPS required for FTP.
cess11 4y ago
And here's the swedish variety: https://opendata.smhi.se/apidocs/ https://opendata.smhi.se/apidocs/
bluenose69 4y ago
Is there an API, though? The Canadian sites do seem to provide data for those inclined to click and click and click, only to get a very thin slice in space/time/property. Without an API, this all seems to be an agency responding to a commandment from on high, as opposed to an agency that actually wants to share data in a helpful way.
- jszymborski 4y ago
  Yes indeedy! [0] there are also RSS feed. I can't say I feel the same way you do, however. I have two bookmarks and they are pretty great dashboards providing me with everything I need to know [1,2] [0] https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-geomet/readme_en/ https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-geomet/readme_en/ [1] https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/qc-147_metric_e.html https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/qc-147_metric_e.html [2] https://weather.gc.ca/forecast/hourly/qc-147_metric_e.html https://weather.gc.ca/forecast/hourly/qc-147_metric_e.html

thatwasunusual 4y ago

Let the Norwegian tax payer dollars (or, kroner, really) chime in![0] [0] https://developer.yr.no/ https://developer.yr.no/

doctor_eval 4y ago

The Australian BoM has it too: http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml

byyll 4y ago
> The Bureau of Meteorology website does not currently support connections via HTTPS. Not enough tax for a (free) certificate.
- defrost 4y ago
  They have HTTPS for subscription services and media releases - everything else is free to air public data with anon FTP servers .. not a lot of HTTPS required for FTP.

cess11 4y ago

And here's the swedish variety: https://opendata.smhi.se/apidocs/ https://opendata.smhi.se/apidocs/

bluenose69 4y ago

Is there an API, though? The Canadian sites do seem to provide data for those inclined to click and click and click, only to get a very thin slice in space/time/property. Without an API, this all seems to be an agency responding to a commandment from on high, as opposed to an agency that actually wants to share data in a helpful way.

jszymborski 4y ago
Yes indeedy! [0] there are also RSS feed. I can't say I feel the same way you do, however. I have two bookmarks and they are pretty great dashboards providing me with everything I need to know [1,2] [0] https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-geomet/readme_en/ https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-geomet/readme_en/ [1] https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/qc-147_metric_e.html https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/qc-147_metric_e.html [2] https://weather.gc.ca/forecast/hourly/qc-147_metric_e.html https://weather.gc.ca/forecast/hourly/qc-147_metric_e.html