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Met Office Regional Data

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I've been having a play at displaying the Met Office historic data for my region - NW England and N Wales - and comparing it to my station data.
It's still a work in progress (like everything!) but what do you think?

https://weather.wilmslowastro.com/graphs_regional.php
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Very good Mark (as usual) :clap: :clap:

... but - the Met Office giving away free data :o
How long will that last ?
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Nice one Mark, are you going to make this available to download at some point?
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All the source should be viewable - no support on this one though. You can work out the regional data table structure I think!
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beteljuice wrote: Sun 25 Nov 2018 7:01 pm the Met Office giving away free data :o
How long will that last ?
You can get a fair bit of data through their datapoint API. It's generated with public money so will always be free.
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This is brilliant - nice work, Mark!

I presume daydata is my Dayfile?

I presume you manually made the regional table and added in the data? Did it take long?
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I cut and paste the data from the PDF into an Excel workbook (a sheet per data type), then "text to columns", then convert to table (and named each one)
I then added a summary sheet, and created a new table to list a year/month per row, with each dataset as a column.
Once you have that it is simple to insert into SQL using the bulk import CSV data feature - just make sure your columns are in the same order as the SQL table.
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Delete - wrong place.
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