🌦️ Exploring Weather Service Api
Building a personal data project starts with gathering data. What better way to start than by exploring a free and well-documented API? In this article, we’ll dive into the National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov) to understand how it works, and we’ll write Python code to retrieve and explore weather data. So… what are you going to be doing? Let’s read through the docs and try to understand how to navigate the API.📜 I’m gonna write some Python code to fetch weather data. I’m gonna analyze the data structure of the forecastHourly endpoint. 📍 Understanding the API The National Weather Service API organizes data using a grid-point system. Each grid point covers an area of 2.5 km x 2.5 km. The /points endpoint is where you get information about retrieving data for a specific location. ...