Best Weather Forecasting Service Modules?

[tuna]

It's been a little while since I have put one of these in.

What's the latest and greatest in relation to using those weather forecasting services and the best PHP module to drop in to a site to read the xml and present the service output so it's all sweet!

Happy to talk to any freelancers that want to assist with this as well.

[Vee]

Hi Gary,

When I was looking for a weather forecasting solution recently, I ended up using Weather Underground's RSS feed. It uses ugly graphics but will do considering the size of the project.

Can I ask where you are getting the data from in the first place?

Edit: It's actually www.weatherzone.com.au that I'm using, not Weather Underground.

[tuna]

Originally Posted by Vee

Can I ask where you are getting the data from in the first place?

That's what I need as well.

[Vee]

Originally Posted by tuna

That's what I need as well.

Like I mentioned, www.weatherzone.com.au is one. You can also try the BoM which provides FTP access to most (all?) of it's services - some free, some subscription based.

If your looking for a more drop in solution, The Weather Co. (gets data from BoM, runs Weather Zone) is probably going to be the best paid offering but I've never used it myself.

[patricktt]

I use http://www.weather.com.au, they provide all the forecasts in rss feed, so it's easy to dynamically pull forecasts and current conditions for any town they have. They only provide a 3 day forcast in the feed though, so might not be what you are looking for? It is very customisable though, which is great.

I just use SimpleXML to grab the data and store it in variables which I can use in whatever format I like

[Khan]

BOM has a WFS (read: XML) feed of 7 day capital city forecasts available in an experimental system. The only trick is you need to be a registered user, so it's not just plug it in and go.

Ref http://ows.bom.gov.au/mapserver/public/faq.pdf