On 8/24/2016 2:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 8/24/2016 8:46 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they >> want to now charge you $3/yr for the service. > > I'm getting DNS not found errors from anything in NOAA.GOV. flushed my dns cache, now its working, whack. > > anyways, 'climate' refers to historical averages by > location/month/week/date. presumably the API involved here was for > current weather conditions and forecast. wait, that noaa.gov $3/person is saying thats what the National Weather service costs to provide annually. its not a fee. anyways, here's the bulletin saying the old weather.noaa.gov web api is discontinued http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm the raw data is now distributed here, http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/ -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz