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Comment by jonknee | Hacker News Reader

Wunderground has lots of data available. They may have actually been part of this deal as they were owned by The Weather Channel.

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KSFO/2015/10/28/...

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International Business Machines on Wednesday announced an agreement to acquire The Weather Co.'s B2B, mobile, and cloud-based web properties, including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand.

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/28/ibm-plans-to-acquire-the-weat...

I use weather underground for my personal server (developer accounts are free up to 500 calls a day...). We used them for work to get weather data for lots of locations hourly ("drizzle" plan). Very reliable.

api: http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs

National weather service, http://weather.gov is my goto weather forecaster, but at the time I wrote the code, getting hourly data based on lat/long for several thousand locations (some outside the US) was problematic. and XML..

Wunderground is included in the deal.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47952.wss

Aww I love this app except their ads. I'm not sure what IBM's plans for this is.

That's what I love about wunderground. I actually have an Ambient Weather ws-1001-wifi weather station at my house, and I'm part of wunderground's weather station network. Whenever I pop open the weather app on my iPhone, it shows the weather in my backyard which I love.

That doesn't look free, unless you want to scrape.

http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/pricing.html

Part of IBM now as well.

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