Posts Tagged ‘Weather’

  • Parse ZFP (Zone Forecast Product) Data in PHP – Option 1

    In a previous article, I covered 5 Sources of Free Weather Data for your Site, but did not provide any actual code to use the data. Since then, I covered sources #1 and #2. None of these sources had any English-formed forecasts. For that, we have to go to the Zone Forecast Product, but we […]

    Published: March 3rd, 2010 by:
  • Merge Image Layers in PHP

    In a previous article, I showed how to Locate the Nearest Radar Station and Display Radar Images. A commenter, mike, pointed out the idea of merging the image layers using PHP instead of layering all the images separately using CSS. Here is how to do it.

    Published: July 17th, 2009 by:
  • More Examples with Parsing NDFD Data in PHP

    I covered how to Parse Weather Forecast Data (from the NDFD) in PHP in a previous article, but due to the amount of questions I received, I decided to show some more usage techniques and examples. In this article, I will cover the time-series option as well as some methods on how to make some […]

    Published: March 3rd, 2009 by:
  • Parse Current Weather Conditions Data from the NWS in PHP

    In a previous article, I covered 5 Sources of Free Weather Data for your Site, but did not provide any actual code to use the data. Last week, I covered source #1 and showed how to Parse Weather Forecast Data (from the NDFD) in PHP. For this article, I will show how to parse source […]

    Published: February 26th, 2009 by:
  • Parse Weather Forecast Data (from the NDFD) in PHP

    In a previous article, I covered 5 Sources of Free Weather Data for your Site, but did not provide any actual code to use the data. Starting with this article, I will post instructions on how to handle this data as well as sample code. For this article, we will start with the National Digital […]

    Published: February 19th, 2009 by:
  • Get the Lat/Lon Location of Major US Cities

    In this article, learn how to fetch the latitude & longitude location of all major US cities. I’m going to provide you with a comprehensive list of almost 500 major US cities as well as the source, so you can get the updated list as city sizes change.

    Published: January 27th, 2009 by:
  • Locate the Nearest Radar Station and Display Radar Images

    Including up-to-date radar images on your website is easier than you might think. In this article, I am going to share where you can get radar images for free for US radar sites and even share some sample code that will fetch the closest radar site by lat/lon and display it on your website.

    Published: January 2nd, 2009 by:
  • 5 Sources of Free Weather Data for your Site

    The weather has always fascinated me, and I actually almost became a meteorologist instead of a full-time entrepreneur. I recently had a project where I had to pull tons of weather data and display it on a website. It took tons of research to find what I was looking for, so I am presenting all […]

    Published: December 11th, 2008 by: