Is it possible to use Australian BoM data for weather intelligence

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@AussieDaveF

I don’t think it will be possible to import that data unless someone has a lot of time on their hands and can build a fairly sophisticated data import tool.

I reached out to our weather provider and unfortunately you are about 61 miles from the closest station. I guess that is the price you pay for living in Tasmania :wink:

Hi Franz,

Thanks for reaching out and providing the query below.

You are correct - this is a matter of how far the closest station is. I was able to verify the closest station was at the Launceston Airport approximately 61 miles away. Taking the users lat / long and adding an exaggerated radius to an /observations query will show me the nearest station and it’s distance:

http://api.aerisapi.com/observations/lat,long?filter=allstations&radius=500miles&fields=id,place,relativeTo&client_id=[]&client_secret=[]

“response”: {
“id”: “MID_YMLT”,
“place”: {
“name”: “launceston airpo”,
“state”: “”,
“country”: “au”
},
“relativeTo”: {
“lat”: -41.8664703,
“long”: 148.2817841,
“bearing”: 293,
“bearingENG”: “WNW”,
“distanceKM”: 99.155,
“distanceMI”: 61.612
}
}

I understand this isn’t an ideal suggestion, but the customer is more than welcome to utilize their own personal weather station and submit it to our network. Please let us know if you have any additional questions.

The only real option at this point would be getting your own PWS (they are fairly inexpensive) and then sending your data here http://www.beta.wufyi.com/

One of our amazing community members @Gene maintains that service which funnels PWS data to weather underground.

:cheers:

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