Disclosure first. https://gribstream.com/ is my indie hacking side project.
It has a free tier with a generous daily limit.
The original data is the NOAA National Blend of Models (NBM) https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/mdl/nbm and it is totally free. But if you’ve worked with grib2 datasets you know how cumbersome it can be for some usecases and that is what this API is for.
The API let’s you query this dataset to extract timeseries for thousands of coordinates, for months at a time, for many weather parameters in a single http request taking a few seconds, without having to download tens of terabytes of grib2 files.
It supports as-of/time-travel which is priceless to do proper backtesting when using the dataset as features into other prediction models.
I’d really appreciate any feedback 🙂
Thank you!
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