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Scholar7
Scholar7

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Get list of weather stations available in openweathermap API

I am trying to look for open source air temperature data providers and finally landed with openweathermap. Does it provide temperature measurements taken by personal sensors (Wikipedia says airport weather stations, on-ground radar stations, weather satellites, remote sensing satellites, METAR and automated weather stations)? If so, is there a way to get the list of available weather stations in the API if provided with a bounding box (using Python, because I did the same with netatmo)?

I read this question and looked into this in openweathermap's official documentation, but it gives the list of weather stations added to my account. Besides, I have checked other sources like netatmo, tomorrow.io (space based temperature data) and wunderground (no more free api). Please direct me to more free air temperature API providers which get data from personal weather stations.

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jonsurfs
jonsurfs

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I've looked into this as well, and could not find any reliable way to get what the weather station is from Open Weather. However, I did do a fair amount of compare / contrast with other data sources, and it looks like they use the ASOS network in the US + some privately owned stations for the ground recordings. This data isn't really hyperlocal (when I test, I'm seeing a gap of 20+ miles between lat / long and the station location), but it's more accurate than purely forecasted data on temperature and wind speed / direction.

The only place that has semi-publicly available data in a single API call with good station information that I've seen is Synoptic Data. Otherwise, this is painful to gather.

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