Please refer to the detailed documentation for national park forecast data feeds for more detailed information

Introduction

The national park forecast data feeds provide access to script forecasts for national parks across the UK. The national park forecast data feeds are routinely updated twice daily, early morning and early afternoon, and are occasionally re-issued.

Tutorials

The national park forecast data feeds can be accessed via web service. Here we describe how to access data using each of these methods in the following four scenarios:

1. You would like a national park forecast for a particular national park
2. You would like a complete list of the national park forecasts across the UK

You would like a national park forecast for a particular national park

Via the web services

1. Call the national park forecasts site list web service to find the id of the national park you would like a forecast for
2. Call the national park forecasts capabilities web service to check whether the data has been updated since it was last requested
3. If so call the national park forecasts web service, specifying the id of the relevant national park, to retrieve the new data in either XML or JSON format

You would like a complete list of the national park forecasts across the UK

Via the web services

1. Call the national park forecast capabilities web service to check whether the data has been updated since it was last requested
2. If so call the national park forecast web service to retrieve the new data in either XML or JSON format