Station data for temperature markets
Observations, running extremes, settlements and forecast members for the stations that settle temperature markets, and for any station the public sources publish, from Miami to Singapore. Each record carries its source and its measured delay. Built by traders who use it.
Sources
A reading is only as good as the time it arrives. Each record carries its source and its receipt time, and the delays below are measured on our own collectors, not quoted from a brochure.
| Source | What it carries | Cadence | Measured delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASOS five-minute observations | Temperature, dew point, wind, pressure for the twenty settlement stations and their neighbours | 5 min | 11.8 min median |
| One-minute readings, exchange index stations | Minute temperatures for 67 airport stations in 13 metros, with the index the hourly markets settle on | 1 min | 2.5 min median |
| METAR and SPECI | The hourly report and its specials, with the covariates: cloud, visibility, precipitation | 60 min | minutes |
| NWS daily climate report | The settlement value for each station day, as issued and as corrected | daily | as issued |
| Forecast members | HRRR, NBM, GFS, ECMWF and the others, each run stamped with when it actually arrived | per run | measured per run |
The record
One API over the whole record, with the conventions a settlement actually follows. The daily climate report is built from five-minute means, so the running extreme is the rounded five-minute mean, never a single minute.
Every reading kept under its own source and station, never merged, so you can see the same minute from two instruments and their disagreement.
The day's high and low as the market will read them, updated as readings land, with the time each extreme was set.
The climate report value per station day, the time it was issued, and any correction after it.
Each model run as recorded, with its arrival time, so a forecast is never quoted as if it had existed before it did.
The twenty settlement stations at launch. Configure any ASOS or METAR station the public sources publish.
Coming: a small service for Windows, Linux and macOS that writes the same record into your Postgres, SQLite, InfluxDB or Prometheus and serves the identical API on your machine.
Pricing
Billing opens with the first access cohort; until then access is granted by hand, free, in exchange for your feedback. Write to hello@weather-data.net.
API
REST with an API key, JSON throughout, every timestamp in UTC and every station day on the station's own standard-time calendar. The reference describes the contract the service is built against; SDKs are generated from it.