Live weather data (was WMS Meteo)

[David Bitner]

Hey Gerry --

Do you have a database with all the NWS stations?  Any chance it's in
PostGIS?  Any chance if I wrote a little script to find the nearest
station to a lat/lon that you'd host it?

Just a shot in the dark...

David

On 1/31/06, Fawcett, David <David.Fawcett at state.mn.us> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Jerl Simpson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:05 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Live weather data (was WMS 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
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Paolo Cavallini
> > Sent: Fri 27-Jan-06 03:35
> > To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
> > Cc:
> > Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] wms meteo
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
>