joseph-sayler
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1 year ago The other day I did some research on this, found several places to potentially get data from, the list includes:
Surprisingly, IEM was the best place to get data. I can get data for tons of regions for at least the last 50 years. Newer data is very granular, with readings every 5 minutes!
The issue is, to use these granular readings, I will need to parse METAR data. METAR is a format of weather data sent directly to pilots. This means I will have to probably make some kind of engine to parse it. Otherwise, IEM data is parsed out from METAR for every hour. And I really wanted much more data than this.
Some links for interpreting METAR:
These two links alone gave me a lot of confidence in parsing this data. Also, IEMs source code probably has parsers they use for METAR, so I can check that out, too.
Conduct research on places to obtain weather data from.
Ideally, this will be a place that provides lots of information and is easy to download data from.