5 days forecast of temperature, precipitation and wind as well as recorded data for temperature, wind and precipitation for the past year. In order to satisfy the minimum requirements for this category, data submitted should meet the following criteria:

• 5 days forecast of temperature updated daily
• 5 days forecast of wind updated daily
• 5 days forecast of precipitation updated daily
• Historical temperature data for the past year

Data Location

https://www.weathersa.co.za/

Comments

The South African Weather Service does offer a machine-readable api, but only to paying customers, despite being a public entity under the Ministry of Water and Environmental Affairs. These data are available for free through APIs from international weather sites, such as Weather Underground and yr.no.

Data is © 2015 South African Weather Service

Reviewer comments

Submission is valid. Thank you for your submission to the 2015 Global Open Data Census.

Data Availability

• N Openly licensed
• Y Is the data available for free
• N Is the data machine readable
• N Available in bulk
• Y Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis
• Y Is data in digital form
• Y Publicly available
• Y Does the data exist
• Y Is the data available online

Details

Date the data became available	Unknown
Format of data	Unknown
Reviewer	Stephen Gates
Submitters	Jason Norwood-Young
Last modified	Fri Sep 04 2015 11:08:09 GMT+0000 (UTC)