Weather Channel's New Format....

[Robert Alexander]

Hi,

Weather data is available from various sources using WSDL (Web 
Services Definition Language) or SOAP (Small Object Access Protocol) 
which are part of the XML set of tools.

Basically, they provide a standardized way to query a web site and 
get info back.

The US NOAA has started a (still experimental) Digital Forecast 
Database. Unfortunately, it's for the continental US only.

 From the site: "National Digital Forecast  Database (NDFD) Extensible 
Markup Language (XML) is a service providing the public, government 
agencies, and commercial enterprises  with data from the National 
Weather Service's (NWS) digital forecast database"

See:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/
http://weather.gov/ndfd/

I'll see if I can find some sources that are more international in scope.

Rob