In the US we have NOAA for weather.  I found about about them when they were being sued by some private forecasters (accuweather I think) for giving away forecast data on the web. (We used to have a weather band radio which would just broadcast the forecast).<p>The government site [1] is ad free and is very accurate and free from local hype.  To the local media snow = ratings.  (I bike a lot so I&#x27;m a weather watcher). My main complaint is their use of ALL CAPS in the detailed weather discussion[2]<p>Getting a stream of data from NOAA wasn&#x27;t so easy for global locations, hourly so when my company needed it we paid weather underground which has a lat&#x2F;long -&gt; json weather condition api.[3] its was free for developers and small sites and its fun to play around with.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphical.weather.gov&#x2F;xml&#x2F;rest.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphical.weather.gov&#x2F;xml&#x2F;rest.php</a>
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