Occasionally, the feed returns weather data from the beginning of January. | The WeatherAPI Community Customer Community

I've been experiencing this for over a month. I was hoping it was a temporary glitch. Anyone else having the same issue? Any fix? Thanks.

Jerry Y

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2 years ago

dobry

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We have same problem since a month and it became worse past days. It shows day forecast from January and no hourly forecast. We get several claims from users every day and can within short time reproduce the problem.

It happens for example with such call:
http://api.wunderground.com/api/<MY-API-KEY>/conditions/astronomy/forecast10day/hourly10day/la...

As usual Wunderground support (help@wunderground.com) doesn't react at all. For what we pay $6'000 a year? For such underground support and data !?! Upset!

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2018-05-31T23:12:20+00:00

James Mowal

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I recently switched to AerisWeather. Not only do they have an affordable weather API and tile mapping platform, but their support team responds almost instantly. Thank you. www.aerisweather.com

2018-06-01T04:20:37+00:00

Nichcagey

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@James Anding why are you plugging Aeris so hard? If you have been using Aeris for a year it seems odd you would be trawling WU forums, why bother? are you performing a public service or something? Either your working for them or you have a grievance with WU you cant drop?

2018-06-01T04:23:36+00:00

dobry

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We're also finally quitting with WU. Especially after reading this reviews of old employees. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Weather-Underground-Reviews-E260228.htm That of 16th of March 2018 writes, that all about 25 employees left the company!

Aeris has indeed a great support and API. But it seems, a lot of cons too:
- Every location search counts too.
- Search in other languages not supported or need another call. Additional searches also needed for example for airport codes.
- Response of API only in English.
- Every type of request counts also if you do it in one call. So for similar info as from WU it counts for example 4 times instead of 1 time.
- They return mainly airport station weather, almost no PWS. So if you search for weather of a city, you get it from airport station which is often several miles away from the city.
- Refresh is less. So after warm weather you can sit in rain and 15° but it's still showing 25° and sun shine.

2018-06-01T04:33:24+00:00

Nichcagey

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Its not about WU, its about you plugging a specific alternate service constantly. As Dobry mentioned, their service is not the be all end all. The English only API responses is a huge negative for a start.

2018-06-01T05:44:19+00:00

Nichcagey

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No, I enjoy knowing people’s motives when promoting alternative services. An English only API, airport weather stations as primary sources, slow refreshes. Does that sound like good data?

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2018-06-02T01:22:57+00:00

Nichcagey

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Questioning why you are repeatedly promoting a competitors service makes me a shill. Pointing out the cons in the service you are promoting is bad mouthing. Asking about your intentions is an attack on your free speech. Anything else I miss?

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2018-06-02T03:08:38+00:00

Nichcagey

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‘I wouldn’t want you bothering Aeris’, wow.

2018-06-11T22:12:20+00:00

dobry

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How can we cancel the monthly subscription? Functionality to upgrade, modify or cancel a plan doesn't work anymore. And after filling a feedback and support form on The Weather Channel the message "Validation failed: weather_underground is invalid" appears ....

2 years ago

Andrzej

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Same here, using wunderground for Kindle weather.

Few times a day (updating hourly) an Wednesday old data is downloaded. Always same day, conditions and forecast.

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2 years ago

naltatis

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Same here. First noticed this effect an May 10th.
Image https//d2r1vs3d9006apcloudfrontnet/s3_images/1729871/RackMultipart20180513-52694-a97kqw-api-response-january_inlinepng1526224297

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2 years ago

Stefan Cojocaru

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Sent an email to them with this bug report.

Hope they fix it soon

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2 years ago

Murphy

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I have been seeing the same thing for about the same amount of time. Sometimes, the weather forecasts will be fine and then they revert to a wintery forecast for hours or days. They they change back to accurate. It's infuriating. Weather Underground is one of the most expensive parts of our system, and this crap has been going on for a month.

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2018-05-31T23:13:52+00:00

James Mowal

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WU was expensive for us as well. Try AerisWeather, seems to work great for our use-case.

2 years ago

Stefan Cojocaru

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It's impossible they are not seeing all this negative feedback.
Switching to aeris tomorrow

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2018-05-14T17:50:53+00:00

Murphy

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Does Aeris have any trouble running on Android? We had trouble switching weather providers a while back, but it's getting to be more likely we'll move in that direction. A half day of rewriting code for a new forecast provider sounds a lot better than a bunch of cancelled subscriptions because our product doesn't work right (I really wish WU and TWC felt this way).

2 years ago

Paul

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Check the date in the response, if it is today cache and display it. If does not match today, display cached forecast. It usually fixes itself after 2-5 hours and the forecast is advertised as updating every 3 hours but this is not always true.

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2018-05-15T04:24:35+00:00

Stefan Cojocaru

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We shouldn't have to do this.
This is a paid service after all

2018-05-15T13:25:47+00:00

Murphy

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Agreed. I do want to thank Paul for his workaround. It's a good idea. It is just crappy that we need to make a workaround. This service isn't cheap in the least. However, the reality of having to rewrite a bunch of code to utilize another service provider has me going in circles. One of our devs just brought up another service that he says is far superior in his experience: Dark Sky. I've heard of it. I don't know much about it. But it looks to be significantly less expensive. I could probably forgive the sporadic errors and need to set up a forecast-versus-present-date check, if it didn't cost around $20 a day.

2018-05-31T23:24:43+00:00

Terry Joseph Wright

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We had WU, switched to DarkSky, but ended up going with AerisWeather as our main weather provider. They were more affordable, have responsive support, and have both API data and visual mapping tile graphics.

2 years ago

Asier Santamaría

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same here, today with a lot of requests

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2 years ago

Ulrich Kotitschke

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Same here. It is always the third of january

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2 years ago

Stefan Cojocaru

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They just posted an announcement about removing free access to the API.

So they are obviously seeing the problems we are posting, they just choose to ignore them.

Good riddance to this s*itty service.

Aeris is the way to go even if it means spending a few hours adjusting to new API

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2 years ago

Murphy

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One this page: https://business.weather.com/contact I found a few phone numbers of the parent company. I have actually spoken to a real person about this. I'm sure I'll be exchanging emails with him for the rest of the week before they understand what's up, though.

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2018-05-17T17:41:48+00:00

Murphy

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Just heard back from someone at IBM (parent company). Their engineers are looking into it, I've been told.

2018-05-17T17:42:52+00:00

Asier Santamaría

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me too

2 years ago

Jerry Y

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Finally - great news...

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2 years ago

Edward

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This is causing an embarrassing problem for us on many of our WeatherSTEM websites and in our mobile app.

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2 years ago

Edward

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Image https//d2r1vs3d9006apcloudfrontnet/s3_images/1730764/RackMultipart20180518-76156-hu1puc-wu_inlinepng1526642882

Notice the forecast for this FLORIDA weather station - snow in May!!!

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2 years ago

Murphy

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Image https//d2r1vs3d9006apcloudfrontnet/s3_images/1730781/RackMultipart20180518-63982-11or24a-Screen_Shot_2018-05-17_at_110257_AM_inlinepng1526649441

Here's one of mine from yesterday. Big temperature swing...Notice also that the forecast starts on Wednesday even though yesterday was Thursday.

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2 years ago

Ulrich Kotitschke

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This is because the 3rd of January was a Wednesday

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2018-05-18T13:25:45+00:00

Murphy

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I'm gonna quote you back to yourself: It is always the third of January.

I mean, it's kind of humorous. If the end-users could all laugh at how funny it is, I'd feel a little better. Of course, I'd feel much better if WU fixed it, or even responded to us at all.

2 years ago

Tim Roche, Official Rep

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Hi folks, sorry there are several threads here about this issue. i hadn't gotten to this one yet. We are looking into the issue. We have not identified a cause yet. We've tried a few things to mitigate, and seen some success, with error rates lowering today and yesterday.

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2 years ago

Edward

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It's still happening and, please forgive me because I've been a WU user for way over a decade, but this is seriously ridiculous. And this has been going on for a very long time - back into 2017. Here is the output of a WU-provided forecast for a site in northern Virginia for this morning. I understand the efforts that are underway to migrate WU to other IBM products (many of which I am already using) but some of my legacy code still uses the WU API and I don't have the time or resources to revamp large chunks of my codebase to work around this bug but it looks like that's what I'm going to have to do because the frequency and scope of this issue is increasing not decreasing!!!!!! Image https//d2r1vs3d9006apcloudfrontnet/s3_images/1730930/RackMultipart20180519-51517-1cy66ly-wu2_inlinepng1526736621

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2 years ago

Tim Roche, Official Rep

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Hi all, I put in another fix for the cache servers today, and from my monitoring, it seems like the errors have stopped and I have not been able to pull an old forecast since the fix went in.

Please let me know if you continue to see errors.

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2018-05-21T11:05:36+00:00

dobry

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Problem still occurs. We got a claim from customer and I could also reproduce it.

2018-05-21T11:20:08+00:00

Edward

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I see it happening now in locations that were fine yesterday.

2018-05-21T11:33:17+00:00

Edward

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This is from a site in Florida - unacceptable!!

2018-05-21T14:35:05+00:00

Murphy

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I have at least 2 locations with erroneous data this morning. Renfro Valley, KY, and Mallorytown, Ontario.

2018-05-21T16:34:22+00:00

Tim Roche, Official Rep

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Sorry folks, looking some more

2018-05-21T17:07:46+00:00

Murphy

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I've been trying to find a glitched location for the last 20 minutes. Haven't found one. Now looking for (and not finding) the bad information is frustrating me...what a life!

2018-05-22T18:11:09+00:00

Paul

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Getting better. Yesterday 24 requests 3 errors. So far today 13 requests 1 error

2018-05-29T15:55:24+00:00

Murphy

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This is, by the way, still happening. I have heard from 4 locations already (just today) out of about 83 that are online. Although it is very unlikely that those are the only 4 locations experiencing this problem, even IF they are the only ones, I am getting inaccurate forecast data for about 5% of my calls. That is at the LEAST.

2018-05-29T15:56:43+00:00

Stefan Cojocaru

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I've stopped using their API a week ago.
Do yourself a favour and use Darksky or Aeris

2018-05-31T23:31:09+00:00

Terry Joseph Wright

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AerisWeather has served me well!

2018-06-19T13:47:20+00:00

Jay R

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Still having this issue as of June 19, 2018.
Any ETA in sight as to when this will be remedied?

2018-06-19T18:15:55+00:00

Murphy

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I don't think Tim Roche has responded to any comments in this or the related threads for the past month. After repeatedly contacting WU (without any replies), TWC, and IBM, I am pretty sure that nobody involved in the corporations cares about this problem at all. We injected a "timestamp check" into our code to filter out forecast information older than 24 hours. If that doesn't sound appealing to you, you probably want to find another weather service provider.

2018-06-19T22:24:45+00:00

Sriram Narayanan

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@Murphy Good idea. I'll look into putting in something similar for our application.

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2 years ago

Ulrich Kotitschke

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The problem has not been solved. It still exists.

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2 years ago

Edward

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This is the output of a call to forecast10day for Miami, FL - I imagine there has to be hundreds of thousands of people who live in that zone so I imagine this bug is impacting a number of people who use apps that get data from Weather Underground - including ours! Image https//d2r1vs3d9006apcloudfrontnet/s3_images/1731214/RackMultipart20180521-101354-l7kldz-miami_inlinepng1526910480

Image https//d2r1vs3d9006apcloudfrontnet/s3_images/1731214/RackMultipart20180521-101354-l7kldz-miami_inlinepng1526910480

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2018-05-21T13:50:25+00:00

Stefan Cojocaru

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It is not related to the location used for the query, I am using European locations and I get the same result

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2018-05-21T13:52:20+00:00

Edward

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I am getting the result randomly across an increasing number of our query locations - the more populated of an area, the more complaints we field and it seems to be occurring with increasing frequency in an increasing number of locations.

2 years ago

Murphy

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http://api.wunderground.com/api/XXX/forecast10day/conditions/satellite/bestfct:1/q/43.0890898,-79.1445846.json<br>

	"simpleforecast": {
		"forecastday": [
		{"date":{
	"epoch":"1514995200",
	"pretty":"11:00 AM EST on January 03, 2018",
	"day":3,
	"month":1,
	"year":2018,
	"yday":2,
	"hour":11,
	"min":"00",
	"sec":0,
	"isdst":"0",
	"monthname":"January",
	"monthname_short":"Jan",
	"weekday_short":"Wed",
	"weekday":"Wednesday",
	"ampm":"AM",
	"tz_short":"EST",
	"tz_long":"America/Toronto"
},
		"period":1,
		"high": {
		"fahrenheit":"22",
		"celsius":"-6"
		},
		"low": {
		"fahrenheit":"10",
		"celsius":"-12"
		},
		"conditions":"Snow",
		"icon":"snow",
		"icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/snow.gif",
		"skyicon":"",
		"pop":30,
		"qpf_allday": {
		"in": null,

What the..? I'm seeing this constantly. C'mon, Weather Underground, give us an update on the situation.

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2 years ago

Sriram Narayanan

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I'm getting this too as we use this to put the weather forecast up on digital screens at our locations - it was noticed last week but may have been going on longer. It's often showing a winter forecast. but yesterday I noticed it showing a current temperature way higher than it really was (33C vs about 23C actual)

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2 years ago

Tim Roche, Official Rep

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Please let me know if this issue persists. We have put in some significant fixes that I hope eliminate the problem

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2018-06-19T20:42:43+00:00

Paul

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I don't know when you put significant fixes in, but for the past week (I make 24 forecast requests each day) error/requests are (error being January 3, 2018 in 10 day forecast response)

June 12 4/24
June 13 5/24
June 14 8/24
June 15 1/24
June 16 9/24
June 17 10/14
June 18 12/24
June 19 10/16