A subset of the live weather details from our weather station have been exposed
as an XML Web Service.
The url to the web service is http://weather.cobbnz.com/weatherservice/webservice.asmx
Another simple web page that returns XML has also been written that will allow you
to simply extract relevant details
from our current weather data.
<
weather
>
<TemperatureCurrent>15.83</TemperatureCurrent>
<TemperatureFeelsLike>22.6</TemperatureFeelsLike>
<TemperatureAllTimeMin>-5.2</TemperatureAllTimeMin>
<TemperatureAllTimeMinDateTime>8/Jul/2007 07:58:00</TemperatureAllTimeMinDateTime>
<TemperatureAllTimeMax>33.4</TemperatureAllTimeMax>
<TemperatureAllTimeMaxDateTime>12/Jan/2008 01:42:00</TemperatureAllTimeMaxDateTime>
<TemperatureThisYearMin>-3.2</TemperatureThisYearMin>
<TemperatureThisYearMinDateTime>25/Jun/2008 04:33:00</TemperatureThisYearMinDateTime>
<TemperatureThisYearMax>33.4</TemperatureThisYearMax>
<TemperatureThisYearMaxDateTime>12/Jan/2008 01:42:00</TemperatureThisYearMaxDateTime>
<TemperatureTrend>Rising</TemperatureTrend>
<HeatIndexMax>16.3</HeatIndexMax>
<HeatIndexMin>10.8</HeatIndexMin>
<HeatIndex>15.8</HeatIndex>
<UV>10.6</UV>
<Barometer>1011.5</Barometer>
<BarometerTrend>Falling</BarometerTrend>
<Humidex>17.4</Humidex>
<Humidity>71</Humidity>
<HumidityTrend>Falling</HumidityTrend>
<DewPoint>10.6</DewPoint>
<WindAvgSpeed>7.4</WindAvgSpeed>
<WindChill>15.8</WindChill>
<WindChillMin>10.8</WindChillMin>
<WindChillMax>16.3</WindChillMax>
<WindDirection>56</WindDirection>
<WindDirectionAverage>95</WindDirectionAverage>
<RainToday>0.0</RainToday>
<CloudHeight>2242.7</CloudHeight>
<SunRise>5:49am</SunRise>
<SunSet>8:41pm</SunSet>
<MoonRise>2:49am</MoonRise>
<MoonSet>1:59pm</MoonSet>
<MoonPhase>38</MoonPhase>
<Weather>Mostly sunny/Dry</Weather>
<Icon>5</Icon>
<Forecast> PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGH 22. UV INDEX UP TO 8. WIND EAST-NORTHEAST AROUND 17 KPH.</Forecast>
<ForecastIcon>13</ForecastIcon>
<Date>21/Nov/2008</Date>
<Time>14:09:18</Time>
<Reading>Friday, 21 Nov, 2008 02:09:18</Reading>
<ReadingTime>2:09 PM</ReadingTime>
<StationName>Fendalton-2:09:18 p.m.</StationName>
</weather>
The url to return just simple XML like shown above is:
http://weather.cobbnz.com/weatherservice/xml.aspx
Note: To display the data in this HTML page I used an XSL Stylesheet along with the XML data.
However you may specify a parameter to the URL ( WebServerURL) which is the path
to someone else's client
raw data, this will allow you to use our service to get
data from other sites and render that how you want.
<
weather
>
<TemperatureCurrent>16.6</TemperatureCurrent>
<TemperatureFeelsLike>23.0</TemperatureFeelsLike>
<TemperatureAllTimeMin>-7.3</TemperatureAllTimeMin>
<TemperatureAllTimeMinDateTime>4/Jul/2000 06:00:00</TemperatureAllTimeMinDateTime>
<TemperatureAllTimeMax>41.8</TemperatureAllTimeMax>
<TemperatureAllTimeMaxDateTime>19/Feb/1973 02:39:00</TemperatureAllTimeMaxDateTime>
<TemperatureThisYearMin>-4.2</TemperatureThisYearMin>
<TemperatureThisYearMinDateTime>25/Jun/2008 06:45:00</TemperatureThisYearMinDateTime>
<TemperatureThisYearMax>34.6</TemperatureThisYearMax>
<TemperatureThisYearMaxDateTime>12/Jan/2008 03:27:00</TemperatureThisYearMaxDateTime>
<TemperatureTrend>Rising</TemperatureTrend>
<HeatIndexMax>16.7</HeatIndexMax>
<HeatIndexMin>11.3</HeatIndexMin>
<HeatIndex>16.6</HeatIndex>
<UV>0.0</UV>
<Barometer>1012.1</Barometer>
<BarometerTrend>Falling</BarometerTrend>
<Humidex>18.3</Humidex>
<Humidity>70</Humidity>
<HumidityTrend>Falling</HumidityTrend>
<DewPoint>11.1</DewPoint>
<WindAvgSpeed>8.1</WindAvgSpeed>
<WindChill>16.6</WindChill>
<WindChillMin>10.4</WindChillMin>
<WindChillMax>16.7</WindChillMax>
<WindDirection>106</WindDirection>
<WindDirectionAverage>96</WindDirectionAverage>
<RainToday>0.0</RainToday>
<CloudHeight>2298.9</CloudHeight>
<SunRise>5:48am</SunRise>
<SunSet>8:41pm</SunSet>
<MoonRise>2:49am</MoonRise>
<MoonSet>1:59pm</MoonSet>
<MoonPhase>38</MoonPhase>
<Weather>Sunny/Dry</Weather>
<Icon>0</Icon>
<Forecast>increasing clouds and cooler. precipitation possible and windy within 6 hrs.</Forecast>
<ForecastIcon>2</ForecastIcon>
<Date>21/Nov/2008</Date>
<Time>14:09:39</Time>
<Reading>Friday, 21 Nov, 2008 02:09:39</Reading>
<ReadingTime>2:09 PM</ReadingTime>
<StationName>Burwood -2:09:39 p.m.</StationName>
</weather>
The data above is coming from Weather Station - ZL3GP, Burwood, Christchurch,
New Zealand
The url to return the XML data from ZL3GP is:
http://weather.cobbnz.com/weatherservice/xml.aspx?WebServerURL=http://www.zl3gp.co.nz
Here is an example of taking the data from here and processing it using XSL and
rendering just the temperature.
XSL Document
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/Weather">
The current weather temperature is <xsl:value-of select="TemperatureCurrent"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Rendered Result
The current weather temperature is 15.83
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