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Javascript to get temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, and solr radiation from Weather Underground "history" API
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function get_weather_history(year, month, day, query, apikey) { | |
if(month < 10) { | |
month = "0" + month; | |
} | |
if(day < 10) { | |
day = "0" + day; | |
} | |
var ymd = year + "" + month + "" + day; | |
var url = "http://api.wunderground.com/api/" + apikey + "/history_" + ymd + "/q/" + query + ".json"; | |
Logger.log("Calling URL: " + url); | |
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url); | |
var json = response.getContentText(); | |
var data = JSON.parse(json); | |
var avg_temp = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['meantempi']; | |
var precip_in = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['precipi']; | |
if(precip_in == "T") { // TODO what does this mean? | |
precip_in = "0.00"; | |
} | |
var max_temp = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['maxtempi']; | |
var min_temp = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['mintempi']; | |
var gdd = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['gdegreedays']; | |
var hdd = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['heatingdegreedays']; | |
var cdd = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['coolingdegreedays']; | |
var wind = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['meanwindspdi']; | |
var humidity = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['humidity']; | |
var min_humidity = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['minhumidity']; | |
var max_humidity = data['history']['dailysummary'][0]['maxhumidity']; | |
// Calculate the solar radiation in Joules/m^2 given Watt/m^2 | |
var t0, t1; | |
var sr0, sr1; | |
var t0 = 0; // midnight | |
var sr0 = 0; // no radiation at midnight | |
var srtotal = 0.0; | |
// Numerically integrate individual observations | |
data['history']['observations'].forEach(function(observation) { | |
// Convert times to seconds since 1 Joule = 1 Watt*second | |
t1 = parseInt(observation['date']['hour'], 10)*60*60 + parseInt(observation['date']['min'], 10)*60; // seconds | |
sr1 = parseFloat(observation['solarradiation']); | |
srtotal += (t1-t0) * ((sr1 + sr0)/2.0); // Trapezoid rule (thanks, grad school!) | |
t0 = t1; | |
sr0 = sr1; | |
}); | |
var sr_MJ = srtotal / 1000000.0; // Guess that physics degree paid off finally | |
return [parseFloat(min_temp), | |
parseFloat(avg_temp), | |
parseFloat(max_temp), | |
parseFloat(precip_in), | |
sr_MJ, | |
parseFloat(wind), | |
parseFloat(min_humidity), | |
parseFloat(humidity), | |
parseFloat(max_humidity)]; | |
} |
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