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meteostat / meteostat-python

Access and analyze historical weather and climate data with Python.
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Meteostat not retrieve data for some Destinations #114

Open wizzioficial opened 2 years ago

wizzioficial commented 2 years ago

Hi! First of all, thanks for the amazing work here. Very simple way to connect and get data!

I have a DataFrame with multiple destinations around the globe.

But for some of these destinations, I don't have any data returned (eg Cancún) - Is this a gap in the Meteostat data or a programming error?

Another question, does Meteostat only return past climates or can it make a prediction of future climates as well?

TheMellyBee commented 1 year ago

I'd like to expand on this question, I noticed for NYC that the daily is complete but when you look at hourly for 2019 there is no prec or any data for several other columns.

Do you have any ideas on why this wouldn't be available?

clampr commented 1 year ago

Hi everyone,

Meteostat collects data from different public sources. It might be that for the weather station(s) in NYC these sources only provide daily data for some parameters. Also, if we don't have a weather station close to Cancún, no data is returned.

Generally, we will have to work on including more weather stations / data sources to improve data coverage. It's mostly a matter of time.