Question/Issue about Weather - whats the current recommendation?

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Dan

May 30, 2019 15:39

I'm confused about the current status of how to obtain weather data - both forecast and actual results.

I've had a rain machine HD16 hardware revision 3 i set up for a couple years now I suppose, and had a WU api key, but I don't have a personal weather station. When I heard about the WU api changes, I disabled the WU option, and currently just have NOAA enabled. I live just a bit north of Minneapolis, MN

However, now I'm not getting actual rain fall amount, just forecast.

So where does that leave me? What are my options now?

I thought I'd try darksky, but for whatever reason I'm not getting email from them to set up an account, so that's probably not going to work...

Do I need to go buy a PWS and hook it up to WU to get actual rain data now? Or is the NOAA data supposed to provide actual results (like how much rain actually fell) or not?

 

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  Eric June 03, 2019 16:54

  I'm in the same situation here.  I removed my old API key, and now get this in the logs every five minutes:

   

  2019-06-03 11:51:51,383 - ERROR - rmParser:133 - *** Error in parser 'WUnderground Parser' while downloading data from https://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMNANOKA10&day=2&month=6&year=2019&graphspan=week&format=0&units=metric, error: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable
  2019-06-03 11:51:51,397 - ERROR - wunderground-parser:368 - Cannot download station KMNANOKA10 data
  2019-06-03 11:51:51,444 - ERROR - wunderground-parser:85 - Error: No observed data received from stations.
  2019-06-03 11:51:51,454 - INFO  - wunderground-parser:95 - WUnderground: forecast data retrieved.

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  Justin Rizel June 18, 2019 12:46

  I'm also in the same situation, after weather underground shut down the API system, I cannot find any other providers that have actual rainfall data available to the rainmachine system. I'm not sure why we need the API to begin with, I have found that the same data is available via the web, we just need someone smart enough to write a python script to parse it I bet.

  Check out

  https://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMNANOKA10&month=06&day=06&year=2019&format=1

  its just a CSV spreadsheet of the day, with rainfall data included.

  I'm going to make a new post, hopefully it is noticed.

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  RDLinKY June 18, 2019 13:21

  Also, the the log of my HD-16, I see the following request going to wunderground;

  https://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID= KKYCREST23&day=16&month=6&year=2019&graphspan=week&format=0&units=metric

  Which show the following error: error: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

   

  However when I enter that same url directly into a browser, I get the following which clearly show observed data for the past 3 days;

  Date,TemperatureHighC,TemperatureAvgC,TemperatureLowC,DewpointHighC,DewpointAvgC,DewpointLowC,HumidityHigh,HumidityAvg,HumidityLow,PressureMaxhPa,PressureMinhPa,WindSpeedMaxKMH,WindSpeedAvgKMH,GustSpeedMaxKMH,PrecipitationSumCM
  2019-6-16,28.6,24.0,19.4,20.0,14.6,6.1,89,63,29,1007,1002,20,1,28,3.76
  2019-6-17,28.0,24.3,20.6,20.9,18.0,13.6,96,75,43,1008,1004,13,0,20,1.35
  2019-6-18,22.3,21.9,21.6,20.2,19.9,19.7,89,88,88,1007,1006,6,0,8,0.53

  Probably worth noting that the "KKYCREST2" weather station is not mine. It's just one nearby.

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