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>16.56</TemperatureCurrent>
<TemperatureFeelsLike>17.5</TemperatureFeelsLike>
<TemperatureAllTimeMin>-5.2</TemperatureAllTimeMin>
<TemperatureAllTimeMinDateTime>8/Jul/2007 07:58:00</TemperatureAllTimeMinDateTime>
<TemperatureAllTimeMax>34.9</TemperatureAllTimeMax>
<TemperatureAllTimeMaxDateTime>8/Jan/2009 02:58:00</TemperatureAllTimeMaxDateTime>
<TemperatureThisYearMin>8.0</TemperatureThisYearMin>
<TemperatureThisYearMinDateTime>11/Jan/2010 05:29:00</TemperatureThisYearMinDateTime>
<TemperatureThisYearMax>32.3</TemperatureThisYearMax>
<TemperatureThisYearMaxDateTime>2/Jan/2010 11:15:00</TemperatureThisYearMaxDateTime>
<TemperatureTrend>Rising</TemperatureTrend>
<HeatIndexMax>16.9</HeatIndexMax>
<HeatIndexMin>14.1</HeatIndexMin>
<HeatIndex>16.6</HeatIndex>
<UV>0.0</UV>
<Barometer>1007.6</Barometer>
<BarometerTrend>Rising</BarometerTrend>
<Humidex>19.2</Humidex>
<Humidity>78</Humidity>
<HumidityTrend>Falling</HumidityTrend>
<DewPoint>12.7</DewPoint>
<WindAvgSpeed>0.0</WindAvgSpeed>
<WindChill>16.6</WindChill>
<WindChillMin>14.1</WindChillMin>
<WindChillMax>16.9</WindChillMax>
<WindDirection>244</WindDirection>
<WindDirectionAverage>244</WindDirectionAverage>
<RainToday>0.0</RainToday>
<CloudHeight>1666.1</CloudHeight>
<SunRise>7:20AM</SunRise>
<SunSet>8:00PM</SunSet>
<MoonRise>2:24AM</MoonRise>
<MoonSet>5:01PM</MoonSet>
<MoonPhase>22</MoonPhase>
<Weather>Night time/Dry</Weather>
<Icon>1</Icon>
<Forecast>mostly cloudy and cooler. precipitation possible within 12 hours, possibly heavy at times. windy.</Forecast>
<ForecastIcon>0</ForecastIcon>
<Date>11/Mar/2010</Date>
<Time>06:43:06</Time>
<Reading>Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010 06:43:06</Reading>
<ReadingTime>6:43 AM</ReadingTime>
<StationName>Fendalton-6:43:06 a.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>16.56</TemperatureCurrent>
<TemperatureFeelsLike>17.4</TemperatureFeelsLike>
<TemperatureAllTimeMin>-5.2</TemperatureAllTimeMin>
<TemperatureAllTimeMinDateTime>8/Jul/2007 07:58:00</TemperatureAllTimeMinDateTime>
<TemperatureAllTimeMax>34.9</TemperatureAllTimeMax>
<TemperatureAllTimeMaxDateTime>8/Jan/2009 02:58:00</TemperatureAllTimeMaxDateTime>
<TemperatureThisYearMin>8.0</TemperatureThisYearMin>
<TemperatureThisYearMinDateTime>11/Jan/2010 05:29:00</TemperatureThisYearMinDateTime>
<TemperatureThisYearMax>32.3</TemperatureThisYearMax>
<TemperatureThisYearMaxDateTime>2/Jan/2010 11:15:00</TemperatureThisYearMaxDateTime>
<TemperatureTrend>Rising</TemperatureTrend>
<HeatIndexMax>16.9</HeatIndexMax>
<HeatIndexMin>14.1</HeatIndexMin>
<HeatIndex>16.6</HeatIndex>
<UV>0.0</UV>
<Barometer>1007.6</Barometer>
<BarometerTrend>Rising</BarometerTrend>
<Humidex>19.2</Humidex>
<Humidity>78</Humidity>
<HumidityTrend>Falling</HumidityTrend>
<DewPoint>12.7</DewPoint>
<WindAvgSpeed>0.2</WindAvgSpeed>
<WindChill>16.6</WindChill>
<WindChillMin>14.1</WindChillMin>
<WindChillMax>16.9</WindChillMax>
<WindDirection>252</WindDirection>
<WindDirectionAverage>245</WindDirectionAverage>
<RainToday>0.0</RainToday>
<CloudHeight>1666.1</CloudHeight>
<SunRise>7:20AM</SunRise>
<SunSet>8:00PM</SunSet>
<MoonRise>2:24AM</MoonRise>
<MoonSet>5:01PM</MoonSet>
<MoonPhase>22</MoonPhase>
<Weather>Night time/Dry</Weather>
<Icon>1</Icon>
<Forecast>mostly cloudy and cooler. precipitation possible within 12 hours, possibly heavy at times. windy.</Forecast>
<ForecastIcon>0</ForecastIcon>
<Date>11/Mar/2010</Date>
<Time>06:43:16</Time>
<Reading>Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010 06:43:16</Reading>
<ReadingTime>6:43 AM</ReadingTime>
<StationName>Fendalton-6:43:16 a.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 16.56
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