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A comment on Ask HN: Does anyone know of a REST API for monthly precipitation in the US?.

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone know of a REST API for monthly precip... by dazmiller on Saturday January 16, 2016 @05:15PM (#10917110)
http://www.programmableweb.com/api/noaa-climate-data-online

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/u-s-hourly-precipitation-da...

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

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/ncdcwebservices

https://data.noaa.gov/dataset/u-s-15-minute-precipitation-da...

Note some maybe datasets, so you may have to import them into a db and then just use something like

http://www.slashdb.com/

to quickly publish your own api.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone know of a REST API for monthly precip... by ob1gman on Saturday January 16, 2016 @05:18PM (#10917130)
Good call! Didn't think about importing them into a lightweight database.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone know of a REST API for monthly precip... by agilevic on Thursday January 21, 2016 @01:13AM (#10943674)
Actually here is a more detailed writeup http://apievangelist.com/2015/11/04/slashdb-created-the-rank...
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone know of a REST API for monthly precip... by agilevic on Thursday January 21, 2016 @01:04AM (#10943652)
I recently did something similar with corporate accountability data. Here's how: http://www.slashdb.com/2015/11/14/slashdb-api-evangelist-twi...
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