Barometrics

A Node API for weather that takes a location and a date(range) and responds with observed (historical) and/or forecast (future) data. Built for use with Pressure, an app for tracking barometric pressure variance and its correlation with pain.

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// Endpoints

/weather

Description: Returns an array of hourly weather data for the given time period at the specified location Parameters:

• lat* Latitude
• long* Longitude
• dateStart* start date of date range (in any acceptable date format) (when used without dateEnd, only dateStart is queried)
• dateEnd end date of date range (in any acceptable date format). Total date range can be no more than 5 days. Requests for more than 5 days will be cut at 4 days from dateStart.

/pressure

Description: Returns an array of hourly atmospheric pressure data (in millibars) for the given time period at the specified location Parameters:

• lat* Latitude
• long* Longitude
• dateStart* start date of date range (in any acceptable date format) (when used without dateEnd, only dateStart is queried)
• dateEnd end date of date range (in any acceptable date format). Total date range can be no more than 5 days. Requests for more than 5 days will be cut at 4 days from dateStart.

* denotes required parameter

Example Usage

Where hourly data is available, you can expect to receive 24 hourly items per date, so a request for the max of 5 days of data would return an array with 120 items.

Example Request to /weather

http://localhost:3000/weather?lat=33.9526&long=-84.5499&dateStart=05-30-2018&dateEnd=06-02-2018

Example Response from /weather

[
  {
    "time": 1527652800,
    "summary": "Mostly Cloudy",
    "icon": "partly-cloudy-night",
    "precipIntensity": 0.0048,
    "precipProbability": 0.09,
    "precipType": "rain",
    "temperature": 73.67,
    "apparentTemperature": 75.11,
    "dewPoint": 71.51,
    "humidity": 0.93,
    "pressure": 1010.55,
    "windSpeed": 5.3,
    "windGust": 9.09,
    "windBearing": 170,
    "cloudCover": 0.88,
    "uvIndex": 0,
    "visibility": 4.15,
    "ozone": 320.1
  },
  ...
]

Example Request to /pressure

http://localhost:3000/weather?lat=33.9526&long=-84.5499&dateStart=05-30-2018&dateEnd=06-02-2018

Example Response from /pressure

[
  {
    "time": 1527652800,
    "pressure": 1010.55
  },
  {
    "time": 1527656400,
    "pressure": 1010.82
  },
  ...
]

Setup

yarn install or npm install

yarn start or npm start

Credits

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