The National Weather Service has an API to get weather data: https://forecast-v3.weather.gov/documentation . The API delivers forecast data over a lightweight HTTP interface. If you pass the correct URL and parameters to the web endpoint, the service will return JSON-formatted weather data. Let's take a look at an example of some data exploration we can do with this rich dataset.
The NWS provides both current weather data and forecasts. Let's say I'd like to see just how accurate NWS forecasts are. I'd like to do this over some amount of time, say a week. I'd like to save tomorrow's forecast, and then later on, compare those forecasts to what the temperature really was. For this example, let's look at the forecast highs, and the actual high temperatures. I'd like to do this for a single point in lat-lon.
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