MSN weather API list of conditions?
Microsoft has a weather API very similar to Google's (which now appears to be completely dead). I've converted one of my applications over to their feed, but I've been unable to find a list of all possible weather conditions.
This is documented fairly well for Google's weather API, but I can't find a list of conditions for the MSN weather API.
FWIW, an example URL to get data back using MSN is:
http://weather.service.msn.com/data.aspx?weadegreetype=F&culture=en-US&weasearchstr=Chicago,IL (service not available anymore (Jan 2016))
Can anyone shed some light on the possible conditions? I need them so that I can convert the condition text to an icon instead.
Answer
I decided to go a slightly different route and figure out conditions based on the icon provided (skycode and skycodeday) from the XML.
Here is a list of what I came up with. Hopefully it will be helpful for others in migrating from Google's weather API:
- 0, 1 ,2, 3 ,4, 17, 35 - Thunderstorm
- 5 - Rain/Snow mix
- 6 - Sleet/Snow mix
- 7 - Rain/Snow/Sleet mix
- 8,9 - Icy
- 10 - Rain/Sleet mix
- 11 - Light Rain
- 12 - Rain
- 13 - Light Snow
- 14,16,42,43 - Snow
- 15 - Blizzard
- 18,40 - Showers
- 19 - Dust
- 20 - Fog
- 21 - Haze
- 22 - Smoke
- 23,24 - Windy
- 25 - Frigid
- 26 - Cloudy
- 27,29,33 - Partly Cloudy (night)
- 28,30,34 - Partly Cloudy
- 31 - Clear (night)
- 32 - Clear
- 36 - Hot
- 37,38 - Scattered Thunderstorms
- 39 - Scattered Showers
- 41 - Scattered Snow Showers
- 44 - N/A
- 45 - Scattered Rain Showers (night)
- 46 - Scattered Snow Showers (night)
- 47 - Scattered Thunderstorms (night)