I was trying to pick through my mind and my notes to come up with a list of sources for the Web Weather Display. I wanted to concentrate on free sources; this effectively eliminates any access to Weather Underground. This is the list that I came up with:
- OpenWeatherMap - using a key from OpenWeatherMap you can download current predicted values for your given lat and long (https://openweathermap.org/api/one-call-api)
- NWS - the National Weather Service has a web services connection that allows you to gather information on current conditions in your area (https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api) as well as warnings and alerts for the area
- NOAA - NOAA has a web services connection that can gather satellite images and loop movies for the WWD (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/token) along with other weather related information
- DarkSky - DarkSky is another source similar to OpenWeatherMap that provides world wide data; however it will be eclipsed and merged into an Apple product in 2023, so it doesn’t appear to be a good place to get information at this time
- Accuweather - Accuweather is another source of weather information; this one allows a limited set of 50 hits/day for free (https://developer.accuweather.com/apis)
- WeeWx - WeeWx is a general purpose posting and data gathering platform. It is extensible with a number of different plug-ins and thus could be merged into the WWD as a data source/sink via MQTT interactions without transferring information to either CWOP or Weather Underground. It does provide a good general purpose interface to most existing weather stations out there as well as RTL-SDR interfaces and other sensors (http://www.weewx.com/).
- Air Quality API - TBD
- Hurricane Models API - TBD
- Weather Models API - TBD
