List of all possible Google weather API "Conditions"

Howard Zoopaloopa picture Howard Zoopaloopa · Oct 14, 2009 · Viewed 20.5k times · Source

Anyone know of all the possible weather conditions Google's API will put out?

I've got to match up my icons to the forecast, and I can't find a list of conditions.

Answer

Beno picture Beno · Jul 12, 2011

I found this list which looks more complete than any other that I've seen

http://dennisdel.com/content/conditions.xml (NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE (Jan 2016))

<conditions>
 <type>PARTLY SUNNY</type>
 <type>SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS</type>
 <type>SHOWERS</type>
 <type>SCATTERED SHOWERS</type>
 <type>RAIN AND SNOW</type>
 <type>OVERCAST</type>
 <type>LIGHT SNOW</type>
 <type>FREEZING DRIZZLE</type>
 <type>CHANCE OF RAIN</type>
 <type>SUNNY</type>
 <type>CLEAR</type>
 <type>MOSTLY SUNNY</type>
 <type>PARTLY CLOUDY</type>
 <type>MOSTLY CLOUDY</type>
 <type>CHANCE OF STORM</type>
 <type>RAIN</type>
 <type>CHANCE OF SNOW</type>
 <type>CLOUDY</type>
 <type>MIST</type>
 <type>STORM</type>
 <type>THUNDERSTORM</type>
 <type>CHANCE OF TSTORM</type>
 <type>SLEET</type>
 <type>SNOW</type>
 <type>ICY</type>
 <type>DUST</type>
 <type>FOG</type>
 <type>SMOKE</type>
 <type>HAZE</type>
 <type>FLURRIES</type>
 <type>LIGHT RAIN</type>
 <type>SNOW SHOWERS</type>
 <type>ICE/SNOW</type>
 <type>WINDY</type>
 <type>SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS</type>
</conditions>

EDIT There is a new one here based on the original list:
https://gist.github.com/806934

It removes these from the list

<type>ICE/SNOW</type>
<type>WINDY</type>
<type>SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS</type>

and adds:

<type>HAIL</type>

Probably wouldn't hurt to use all of them anyway