API PWS Data Is Stale | The WeatherAPI Community Customer Community

This evening, the API is getting stale observation data, but if I use wunderground's website the same PWS stations are reporting current data.

API call for KWARENTO85 just a few minutes ago returned observational data that is 411 minutes old (and even has the estimated flag set) but if I use the website to look at the station data ( https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=pws:KWARENTO85 ) the data is 2 minutes old.

(This is not the only PWS doing it, it's just a handy example.)

(Others are reporting stale data as well, out of the 5 I check only 2 are behaving normally.)

skolia

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annoyed

Posted 3 years ago

3 years ago

Roman Jilge

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Yes, I agree to you and also have seen old observation time / date.

@Wunderground: Please fix that issue!

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3 years ago

skolia

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11 hours later, no change :(

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3 years ago

Pavel Repkin

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I concur!

For the past 4 days PWS API and wunderground.com mismatch.
It looks as though API reports for PWSs are significantly outdated.

Here's an example - a PWS of my friend Fred from Leiden, Netherlands "ILEIDEN13".
The staton is on and reporting continuously.

wunderground.com is flawless.
https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=pws:ILEIDEN13
Right now this link shows 10 Celcius observed 3 minutes ago.

But the API is reporting weather from 2 days ago.
http://api.wunderground.com/api/b28d047ca410515a/conditions//q/pws:ILEIDEN13.json
8 Celcius observed on November 18.
Today is November 22.

Please address this problem.
We have received numerous complaints from PWS owners.

Pavel Repkin
YoWindow Weather app.
http://yowindow.com

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3 years ago

skolia

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Starting to see data improvements *knock on wood*.

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3 years ago

skolia

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And broken again, this time more so (newest data is 30 minutes old).

(Edited)

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3 years ago

Mirco Aragona

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Finally you noticed. Now how do you can improve ? Do you can i recommend

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3 years ago

Brendan Hayes, Official Rep

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We are looking into why these are different and are trying to address a fix.

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2016-11-22T23:08:32+00:00

skolia

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If there's anything I can do from my end to help track it down, let me know.

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2016-11-23T14:43:03+00:00

Mirco Aragona

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Ok, I hope that you will do everything possible to solve this problem ,weatherunderground is the best that there is sin for this current problem of stations which does not update or lock up. good job and I recommend you find a solution!

3 years ago

skolia

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At the risk of jinxing it - it seems to be better this evening.

(Edited)

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3 years ago

Brendan Hayes, Official Rep

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The issue was resolved during the night, and we are continuing to monitor the situation. The data is flowing correctly now and propagating across the servers so that it does not appear stale. We are also implementing checks to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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2016-11-23T17:22:26+00:00

Mirco Aragona

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Ok,thanks we hope that you do not repeat this problem

2016-11-24T05:44:24+00:00

Pavel Repkin

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We do not see the problem on our end. Thank you, Brendan!

3 years ago

Mirco Aragona

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The weather stations of weather underground lately lock, sometimes wind conditions leave 0, I do not understand what has happened . You can improve?? Thanks

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3 years ago

Chris Lawrence

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I'm seeing stale barometric pressure, winds, and precip data via the API that I don't see on the WU webpage. I also believe it is stale on temp and dewpoint, though at different times. I've seen dew point exceed temperature (impossible). This has been going on the past few days.

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3 years ago

empeee

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I also periodically get stale data, next API call its resolved. Data on wunderground.com looks fine, only data from API call is corrupted.
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3 years ago

skolia

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Here we go again, another stale data API incident, it seems to have started around 30 minutes ago.

It's affecting the wunderground site as well, it says there are no personal weather stations in my area (and there's well over a dozen).

EDIT: May be coming back up. Although website still can't find PWS stations in the area.)

(Edited)

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2 years ago

Lyn Nierman

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well when I try to get my personal weather I can see my location but will not let me go ther it takes me to Prague. 2 times I have paid for YoWindow and now still can no longer get it I guess I stop paying for it from now on

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2018-01-24T20:51:08+00:00

Lyn Nierman

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well finally got it tow ork but no weather given, so do not understand that problem. I really like this program, hope it starts running right

2018-01-25T06:50:05+00:00

Pavel Repkin

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Make sure you have added your location via Search function. It is a common mistake to rename the place.

2 years ago

_rudders

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I have a similar issue - the website shows my PWS data correctly (.3mm precip today) but the API tells me 13mm - not sure if it's stale or potentially misaligned with my timezone - I'm in Australia. API show's correct timezone info but as this is a "today" measurement I wonder if the API calculates "today" better than the api - would be nice if the site used it's own APIs so this would getsorted!

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