Get Your Weather Through RSS/XML Feeds

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon December 5, 2004  
Tag Icon Tagged: Internet

Forget about all those freeware/spyware weather programs. Download your weather for free using RSS/XML feeds.


RSS/XML feeds still are hot stuff. By the use of a RSS aggregator, you can collect multiple feeds and display them however you wish.

If you are new to this world of XML/RSS feeds, try out some the new freeware aggregators that exist. Sharpreader is an excellent freeware program for windows. Readers for every OS in the world exists. Web-based readers exist as well.

On to the good stuff… here are the places where you can find weather related RSS/XML feeds.

NOAA —

RSSWeather —

    If you want an all-in-one customized package, you should explore this free service: http://www.rssweather.com/

    Just put your zip code in the search box on the site, and then customize your feed from the custom RSS Feed link in the left column.

Yahoo Weather –

Tropical/Hurricane Feeds –

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  • TheKog
    I am trying to learn how to embed these RSS weather feeds into my existing website. I'm not a TOTAL dummy but I'm feeling like one now that I'm trying to integrate this. Could someone point me to some sources that give a "how to embed an RSS feed into your website" for dummies?
    Everything I find seems targeted at publishers.
  • Anonymous
    I'm also interested in this, although I see there have been no responses in over a month. :?
  • Anonymous
    <ul id="quote">
    TheKog wrote:
    I am trying to learn how to embed these RSS weather feeds into my existing website. I'm not a TOTAL dummy but I'm feeling like one now that I'm trying to integrate this. Could someone point me to some sources that give a "how to embed an RSS feed into your website" for dummies?
    Everything I find seems targeted at publishers.</ul> :oops: :oops: :o
  • davak
    Sorry, guys. I missed this question the first time around. The problem with easy javascript solutions is that they often pull the feed everytime the web page is pulled. That's bad RSS form.

    Have you tried the scripts on these pages?
    http://p3k.org/rss/?setup=true
    http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/
  • Thanks for the info. I'm gonna use the NOAA XML feed on my site.
  • Andre
    Thumbs Down to rssweather. they have a huge list of canadian locations and most of them just say "Location not found". terribly lame. there is no such thing as a globally available weather feed without some sort of catch. Yahoo requires you to go to their homepage to look up the "location code" for your city, which is lame, someone should offer a complete globally available free weather feed.
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