Hi folks, Wondering if anyone here knows of a good (preferably U.S. government) source for XML or some sort of webservice weather data. My specific requirement is to get the most recent 30 days of precip data for a single station, with data including the day prior to the request. I can get this from GHCND data on the NOAA ftp site, but it requires downloading a huge file every day, which includes data back to 1941 (and a fair bit of data processing to make it usable). I've also tried the GHCND data from NCDC Web Services site, but it has a 2 day reporting lag. I don't need *todays* data, but I do need *yesterday's* data (relative to the date of the report).
I've spent a good chunk of time with a few other sites (all very confusing), only to discover they weren't returning the data I needed. Thus, I come to you, hoping you know exactly which site/service will work. Ideally, I'll be able to use Excel to pull and process the data. But if necessary I can use R to do it. Oh, and it should be free. :) Thanks for your time, Gordon
