Historical weather data

[Storegga_Effect]

Hi fellow Alteryx-addicted friends!

Just wanted to know if you had any relevant data source to recommend to download historical data on climate? (ie temperature, humidity) on a specific location?

There's a few websites out there but wanted to know your best off!

Thanks,

S 

[jdunkerley79]

Did a post on my blog a few months ago on parsing the UK Met office historic station data:

http://jdunkerley.co.uk/2015/09/04/downloading-and-parsing-met-office-historic-station-data-with-alt...

Been meaning to look at the NOAA data but havent got around to it yet (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets/quality-controlled-...

[TaraM · Accepted solution]

We have a sample that downloads and parses data from https://www.wunderground.com/

From Help > Sample Workflows > Data Artistry > Download Data and Parse Report

[ategg · Accepted solution]

Hey Storegga_Effect,

https://developer.forecast.io/ - 1000 free calls every day

http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/ - is great for raw historical data - (check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3200984/where-can-i-find-historical-raw-weather-data for an example of how you can use the data).

[Storegga_Effect]

Muchas gracias fellows for these insightful answers!

[cbridges]

How do you work with the NCDC data if you don't know/have Python? I couldn't get Alteryx to read .dds or .das.

[Storegga_Effect]

Hi, Did not have a chance to try it - but looks like ALT does not read these files as you pointed out. Did you find what you're looking for?

[damyon_claar_pressley]

@TaraM - It seems that the sample workflow you referenced is no longer included.  How can I get a copy of if? 

Thanks!

[TaraM]

I am attaching it here - you may need to change the base map in the Report map tool.

[damyon_claar_pressley]

Thanks a million.