Interesting to note the ripple effect from about 16:00 to 23:00 as the temperature is maintained at the 20C set value. Also notice that the heating was switched off from around midnight to 6:00 AM where you can see the temperature fall. Note that no data was gathered from the Hive AlertMe API prior to 11:00 AM on 8th February. The red line at the top represents the internal temperature gathered via the Hive AlertMe API and the line at the bottom is the weighted external temperature gathered from the three nearest Met Office observation sites. I extended the simple Java client from last time to call the DataPoint API to generate the dataset used to produce the following graph.
Using the data gathered from the Hive AlertMe API and the Met Office DataPoint API we can see the correlation between the two over a 24-hour period. The temperature values that we are interested in are highlighted in bold. Below is an example of the response provided. Currently hourly observations are the finest resolution for observational data.
In the above the site id is incorporated into the URL, here 3784 for Gravesend-Broadness, and the res parameter requests that the data is provided on an hourly basis. The data is obtained using the following API call, The data was obtained by calling the DataPoint API three times with the site id of each location.
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The above chart shows the variation of temperature for these three sites over a 24-hour period plus the calculated weighted temperature for my home town shown in red. The three nearest Met Office locations to my home town are Charlwood, Gravesend-Broadness and Kelly which have the site ids 3769, 37 respectively. The temperature at ‘Home’ is calculated as follows, In the above diagram we can see three separate locations, shown by grey diamonds, with the three temperatures 3.5C, 4.0C and 5.0C and the corresponding distances 10, 12 and 11 respectively. If there are any meteorologists reading this, I am open to suggestions on if there is a better approach given the data available? Since we wish to track historic temperatures we will calculate the weighted average of temperature at the three nearest sites to my home town based on distance. We use this call to identify the sites we are interested in and in particular their ids.īecause observation coverage is sparse when compared to forecast locations my home town is not listed which it is for forecast data. You can see the basic information returned includes name, elevation (I have been unable to confirm the units but this might be in feet as wind speeds elsewhere in the API are reported in miles per hour an imperial unit) plus latitude and longitude. Substitute your own API key to make these work.Īs we are interested in tracking historic weather conditions we will use the latter API function, which will return a result similar to the following (this have been abridged and only shows the first entry of the hundred and twenty) Two API functions are provided by DataPoint for obtaining the list of available sites, one for forecasts and one for observations. Here we will be using the JSON based API. The Met Office provides forecast data for around 5,000 sites and collects observations at approximately 120 sites. The API is designed to support the access of both forecast and observation data for a number of UK locations or in DataPoint API likes parlance, sites. As before when exploring the Hive AlertMe API, DataPoint can be easily investigated using the Postman App within Google Chrome. DataPoint is a restful API providing data as either XML or JSON format. The quota is more than enough for individual usage.
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The basic service is free with quotas being imposed on the total number of calls and the maximum frequency of these calls. The account includes the provision of a personal API key which is required to call the API. To access the API you need to register for an account here. The Met Office provides a publicly accessible API for both weather forecasts and historic meteorological observations called DataPoint. In this post we are going to correlate these readings with the external temperature as recorded by the UK Met Office.
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In my previous post we saw how to connect to the Hive AlertMe API to track the variation of temperature in a home over time to produce a simple graph.
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