{"id":31626,"date":"2024-11-22T08:27:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T07:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/api-access-to-the-national-blend-of-models-weather-forecasts-history-self-promotion\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T08:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T07:27:05","slug":"api-access-to-the-national-blend-of-models-weather-forecasts-history-self-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/api-access-to-the-national-blend-of-models-weather-forecasts-history-self-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"API Access To The National Blend Of Models – Weather Forecasts History [self-promotion]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Disclosure first. https:\/\/gribstream.com\/<\/a> is my indie hacking side project. <\/p>\n

It has a free tier with a generous daily limit.<\/p>\n

The original data is the NOAA National Blend of Models (NBM) https:\/\/vlab.noaa.gov\/web\/mdl\/nbm<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It supports as-of\/time-travel which is priceless to do proper backtesting when using the dataset as features into other prediction models.<\/p>\n

I’d really appreciate any feedback \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

submitted by \/u\/ElPeque222 <\/a>
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