Live weather data (was WMS Meteo)

[Fawcett, David]

If you wanted to make the nearest station calculation simple, you might
want to pre-generate a shapefile for the areas that relate to each
station, you could then just query the shapefile to get the nearest or
most relevant station.  
 
David.

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Meteo)
	
	
	I wrote something to do this for my company.  It's not too bad,
but it is fairly involved and seems to only work in the US.
	
	You can get all the stations here:
	http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt
	
	These have international stations as well.
	I know in the US, you can use noaa.gov to query current info for
a particular station, not sure about the EU. 
	
	Basically you have to find the station nearest the lat/lon you
have, get the Station ID, then query.  With NOAA you can get the info as
XML, which is very handy to parse out.
	
	I know this isn't exactly what you were looking for, but might
help a little. 
	
	Jerl
	
	
	
	On 1/30/06, Ed Dowding <ed at citysafe.org> wrote: 

		Does anyone know if there's a service to which you can
send a lat/long and
		be returned weather for the nearest weather station?
		
		I was interested in this link
(http://maps.customweather.com/image ) from the
		previous thread but couldn't get anything useful from
it. Any further info?
		
		Thanks,
		
		Ed
		
		
		
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		Hi all.
		Sorry for the partly offtopic question: can anybody
point to a wms resource 
		for live meteo data, in particular for southern Europe?
		Thanking you in advance.
		All the best.
		


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