4,300 world cities five-day forecast
Service summary
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Service details
Available for 4,300 major towns and cities worldwide. This service
gives a forecast for up to five days detailing maximum temperature,
minimum temperature and weather type.
Summary of service details
- Town-specific five-day forecast
- Minimum and maximum temperature (°C)
- Brief weather description (e.g. rain, cloudy etc.)
- CSV format
- The information is pushed from our server to yours via FTP push
- Updated once daily for the following five days
- You are able to choose the cities you require information for,
from a list of 4000 worldwide
- The complete file of 4000 world cities is sent to you via FTP
but you then have to program your site to only display the number
of cities for which you have purchased a licence.
- It is the number of cities information that you are licenced to
display which is important not the actual locations
The 4,300 world cities five-day forecast is one of our most popular
datafeed services. It gives the viewer details on temperature and
weather type. At a quick glance, you can see what weather to expect
for the next five days for your chosen major city or town. The service
provides an even spread of cities per continent with more in Europe.
For a breakdown of cities per continent please see the following:
Download the Excel spreadsheets below to see which towns and cities
are available:
Town/city names,
country, latitude/longitude etc (1.44 Mb Excel file)
Town/city names and
country only (335 Kb Excel file)
The information is sent via an FTP pushed datafeed from the Met Office
server to the clients, with the 4,300 world cities five-day forecast
being sent in Comma Separated Variable format (CSV). For further information
and details on the format of this datafeed please see the sample file
and further explanation in the following example:
Format
The forecast data for the cities, ports and airports will appear
arrive as a CSV file. The following is an example of an extract from
such a file:
0001,Birmingham,Alabama,N.America,Airport,0600,Thu,27,7,2000,,
,19,10,10,,,,,,,18,12,10,,,,,,,16,12,10,,,,,,,17,10,10,,,,,,,16,13,10,,,,
0002,Dothan Regional,Alabama,N.America,Airport,0600,Thu,27,7,2000,,,28,19,
10,,,,,,,31,20,3,,,,,,,33,22,3,,,,,,,29,22,10,,,,,,,29,22,10,,,,
The format of this data is as follows:
- Item 1: Site ID. This is a 4-digit integer.
- Item 2: Site name. This is a string of up to 50 characters.
- Item 3: Site Country or Region. This is a string of up to 25 characters.
- Item 4: Site Continent. This is a string of up to 11 characters
- Item 5: Site Type. This is a string of up to 7 characters and
will be one of 'City', 'Port' or 'Airport'.
- Item 6: Start Hour. The morning edition will start at 0600 that
day. The afternoon edition will start at 0600 the next day.
- Item 7: Start Day Name. This will be a string of 3 characters
and will be one of 'Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri' or 'Sat'.
- Item 8: Start Day. The day of the month, eg 7 or 27.
- Item 9: Start Month. The month, eg 5 or 12.
- Item 10: Start Year. The four-digit year, eg 2000.
- Item 11: Reserved for Wind Direction
- Item 12: Reserved for Wind Speed
- Item 13: Max Day 1. This will be the maximum daytime temperature
for day 1. This covers the period from 0600 on Start Date to 1800
on Start Date.
- Item 14: Min Day 1. This will be the minimum nighttime temperature
for day 1. This covers the period from 1800 on Start Date to 0600
on Start Date +1.
- Item 15: Sig Wx Day 1. This will be the Significant Weather code
for daytime on day 1.
- Item 16: Reserved for visibility
- Item 17: Reserved for pressure
- Item 18: Reserved for pressure tendency
- Item 19: Reserved for relative humidity
- Items 20 to 55 give the reserved positions and the max. and min.
temperatures and the significant weather codes for days 2 to 5.
Notes:
- Temperatures are in degrees Celsius
- Maximums relate to the daytime maximum
- Minimums relate to the night-time minimum
- The night-time values relate to the night preceding the day: in
the example, 6 is the minimum for the night Sunday 06 Jun - Monday
07 June
- The weather code covers the local daytime period.
Weather Codes
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-99
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
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Unknown
Clear sky (Night)
Sunny (Day)
Partly cloudy (Night)
Sunny intervals
Duststorm
Mist
Fog
(White) Medium-level cloud
(Black) Low-level cloud
Light rain shower (Night)
Light rain shower (Day)
Drizzle
Light rain
Heavy rain shower (Night)
Heavy rain shower (Day)
Heavy Rain
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16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31 |
Sleet shower (Night)
Sleet shower (Day)
Sleet
Hail shower (Night)
Hail shower (Day)
Hail
Light snow shower (Night)
Light snow shower (Day)
Light snow
Heavy snow shower (Night)
Heavy snow shower (Day)
Heavy snow
Thundery shower (Night)
Thundery shower (Day)
Thunder storm
Tropical storm |
Basic graphics
package
A 'zipped' file containing the standard Met Office weather symbols
and regional maps is available if you purchase this product. To request
this package, please check the 'Symbol set' box on the order form.
Pricing
The 4,300 world cities five-day forecast pricing assumes a one-year
contract.
£550 exc. VAT per annum.
The
price is purely for the service detailed along with the basic graphics
package and does not include technical support.
Standard terms and conditions
All Met Office services are subject to our standard terms and conditions,
which can be faxed to you upon request and will be automatically dispatched
with the contract.
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