Weather File Feed

Raw weather data batch files contain forecasts and current conditions updated on a continual basis for a fixed location list.

Foreca provides a raw weather data feed in an easy-to-use format that is ideal for integrating location-based weather information into proprietary systems. The feed is available as XML and delimited ASCII formats. The data contains weather information for up to 80.000 locations world-wide.

How Does It Work?

Foreca Weather Feed sends updated weather information as XML or ASCII files  every hour.

Weather Parameters Available

Depending on the package chosen (Standard, Premium), the feed contains current conditions data from relevant local weather stations and weather forecasts for up to 14 days. For special purposes, customised feeds are also available upon request.

Current Conditions

Current weather conditions are shown for the named locations based on the nearest weather stations. Foreca gathers the observation data only from the official SYNOP and METAR weather stations to ensure high-quality data. The file is updated at least every 15 minutes, but the update frequency of any given observation station's data depends on the transmitting frequency of the station, which typically varies between 10 minutes and 3 hours; there are also some manual stations that do not measure during the night. When we choose which stations to use, we try to ensure that the weather conditions are as close as possible to the ones at the location they represent. Optionally, the feed provides also the observations from the past day for selected stations and parameters.

Hourly Forecast

With hourly forecast data you are able to provide weather forecasts in one-hour-steps. Hourly forecast is adequate to show detailed weather forecast of the current day as a table or graphical module. Forecasts are updated at least four times per day.

Daily Overview Forecast

Daily forecast is a 24-hour summary of the day. The data is provided for the next 14 days, including the current day. Forecasts are updated at least four times per day.

5-Day Forecast

For the next five days, the feed contains all the most consumed weather parameters in 3- or 6-hour time steps depending on the chosen service level.

30-Day Forecast

The following parameters are optionally provided for the next 30 days.

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Locations

Foreca Weather Feed provides forecasts for up to 80.000 named locations. The needed locations can be chosen in your feed from among global and country packages. The global package contains 20.000 locations from all over the world. For dense local locations, the country packages offer more locations within the countries. The number of locations depends on the country. Some examples of the amounts are listed below. 

Some examples of country location sets:

• Russia 3.900
• Finland 400
• Sweden 300
• Germany 4.600
• France 5.700
• United Kingdom 2.300
• United States 9.800
• Spain 2.900
• Italy 5.000

Global and Country packages can be combined. For example: Standard Global package with 20,000 location including 352 UK locations and UK Standard package with 2,300 UK locations (all the locations included in the Global package and over 1,800 additional locations). This combination provides complete coverage of the UK and all major locations globally.

Delivery

Our services are reasonably priced based on the customer use case, the service usage volume and amount of customisation work required. We would be happy to offer you our pricing quote after we have specified together your requirements for the service. Our value proposition is to always deliver a weather service that is a perfect fit for the customer need. To be able to focus on major customer projects currently we are not offering freemium services or short term project deliveries.

The Weather Feed is based on customers using HTTP polling to monitor forecast and observation files, which update at different intervals. Location metadata, such as coordinates and names in various languages, is provided in a separate static file. The files are either XML or delimited ASCII raw data, which is language-independent. We recommend that larger batch files be gzipped delimited ASCII, since typically, delimited ASCII files are faster and easier to parse, and gzip compression greatly reduces transfer times. For convenience (intended for smaller files), we can also provide the data as uncompressed XML or RSS. Foreca reserves the option to limit traffic to only predefined IP addresses.

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