I’m confused. I’ve been a Wu contributor for years and only have a station Id. Will I be grandfathered under the new rules? They say you’ll have access to historical data, but then say data will only be stored for the last 7 days. How does new data get historized if it’s deleted after 7 days?
Even if the download button is greyed out, the link in the script still works without login or cookies to get the CSV file with the data.
It’s been a unholy mess for WU as the IBM team attempts to dismantle the old WeatherUnderground API and substitute a newer weather.com API. A public relations AND a poorly planned/announced/developed conversion for the API.
The only scripts using the current WU API are for forecasts (WU-forecast.php and cousins). The graphing scripts rely on the CSV download from weatherunderground.com and (according to them) that is not changing in the future. IF someone was using the WU API for data (not forecasts), then those scripts will have to be changed, but AFAIK, the common scripts from Wim and I do not use the WU API for PWS data – only the WU website CSV downloads.
Their ‘forum’ is a mess also – a combination of a bad announcement, multiple rant-filled replies and calm responses by victoria from IBM and some shifting (over time) guidance about what will happen and especially WHEN. Originally, the announcement about the shutdown of the current WU API was done in mid-2018 for cutoff on Dec 31, 2018. It was revised to be 15-Feb-2019 as the ‘current’ date, but I strongly suspect that will also be moved as they are WAY BEHIND in offering the new API keys for the NEW API to anyone.
What is currently known:
the wunderground.com website showing PWS historical data is NOT CHANGING (at this time) and is NOT EFFECTED by the WU API deprecation.
the new API might be used for forecasts in the future, but is not currently used for anything else by my scripts.
My direct email questions to Victoria have been promptly and satisfactorily answered.
And yet that is how they say they will inform us of what happens next. I am not talking about “multiple rant-filled replies”, the link I posted is their latest statement.
My direct email questions to Victoria have been promptly and satisfactorily answered.
Opposite problem here in Edinburgh! DarkSky forecasts very high. . .
Since I have been using the DarkSky forecasts I have noticed (in my area at least) the wind and to a lesser degree the rain forecasts have been somewhat unreliable.
I must say, I do prefer the WU forecasts, but understand the issues using this going forward.
:oops: To be sure that I do not use incorrect units, I check the used units in the data from DarkSky.
But there I mistyped the settings for the UnitedKingdom and used “uk” which should have been “uk2”
So the scripts knew “for sure” that the data was in km/h. And a conversion from km/h => mph is done on the wind-data which is already in mph.
For the private version of @bitsostring / Edinburgh (he made modifications to enhance the script) change line 359 from
if ($darksky_used_unit == 'uk')
to
if ($darksky_used_unit == 'uk2')
For other UK users it is line 352
Wim
P.S. I did not find the reason for to-low wind-speeds (yet).
is included on the TODO list as it is also worldwide available. But it has no text forecasts.
Which WU, EC, WXSIM and DarkSky have.
I hope it is clear soon how we can continue to use WU. After that I will include met.no and an Australian one.
Wim
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Hi Wim,
Thanks a lot for the Weather Display version of the HWS Template. I don
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In the temperature block (using German language setting) there is shown the term