Weather information from Norway and Scandinavia

[amotl]

Dear Sondre (@sondrelg),

thank you very much for your input at snok/install-poetry#18 and #332, we really appreciate it. Now that we already said hello and assuming that you like what we are doing here, I am humbly reaching out to you about another question on a more general aspect.

Attaching to #282, #284, #285, #299, #303 and #349, I am taking the chance to ask you if you know something about any open data sites where weather data from the domestic weather agencies in Norway or the other Scandinavian countries might be gathered from?

While we are not there yet, we are in the phase of preparing to bring some proof of concepts into place in order to expand the outreach of Wetterdienst into that area beyond just ingesting data from @DeutscherWetterdienst (DWD).

If you know something about it, we won't have to do the research on our own and might attach to that information as soon as we are ready to bring in more adapters to other weather agencies [1]. So, thank you very much in advance!

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[1] If you actually know about any projects which already have some Python code around for accessing those, similar to the code by @Zeitsperre outlined within #282, it would be even better ;].

[sondrelg]

Hi Andreas 🙂

For Norway I think this might be useful to you: https://api.met.no/ (see also https://api.met.no/weatherapi/documentation)

There is a guide explaining how to use it here: https://developer.yr.no/doc/GettingStarted/

All data is available for use under a Creative Commons license (see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which I'm guessing you qualify for as long as you credit them 👍

[amotl]

Hi Sondre,

thanks a bunch for these pointers. If you find out something about your neighbor countries, please let us know.

With kind regards,
Andreas.