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Weather data out of date

Has anyone noticed that the weather data from the weather feed using http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=location can sometimes be WAY out of date? I'm talking a week old at this point. It doesn't happen all the time, which leads me to believe that they have a load balancing server structure set up and one or more of them aren't updating properly. I've tried to locate a general email address to contact them and let them know about it, but this is the only feedback form I could find. If anyone from Yahoo is monitoring this, please do something about this problem.

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  • Hi Brian,

    I haven't seen this problem myself - the feed data for my application cases updates on an hourly basis, but your suggestion might be one of the reasons that an error like this could be occurring. A more direct method for interacting with the search folks would be to post to the group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/ .

    I can forward this information on as well but I would try re-posting there. How often (approx.) does this problem occur. Also, how long have you been experiencing this issue?

    Jonathan LeBlanc
    Senior Software Engineer
    Yahoo! Developer Network
    Twitter: jcleblanc

    QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 1 2009, 06:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Has anyone noticed that the weather data from the weather feed using http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=location can sometimes be WAY out of date? I'm talking a week old at this point. It doesn't happen all the time, which leads me to believe that they have a load balancing server structure set up and one or more of them aren't updating properly. I've tried to locate a general email address to contact them and let them know about it, but this is the only feedback form I could find. If anyone from Yahoo is monitoring this, please do something about this problem.
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  • This is definitely an issue. I wrote this shell script:
    CODE
    #!/bin/bash
    while [ 1 ]; do
            wget "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=29601&time=`date +%s`"
            sleep 10
    done


    Then, if I do a grep lastBuildDate fore*, you can see:

    QUOTE
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480812:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480822:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480833:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480844:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480855:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480866:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480877:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480887:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480899:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480910:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480920:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480931:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480942:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480961:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480972:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480983:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249480993:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481004:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481015:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481026:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481036:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481047:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481058:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481068:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481079:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481089:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481100:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481111:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481121:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481132:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481142:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481153:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481163:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481174:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481184:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481195:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481205:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481216:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481226:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481237:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481247:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481258:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481268:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481279:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481290:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481300:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481311:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481321:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481331:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481342:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481353:<lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 4:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
    forecastrss?p=29710&time=1249481363:<lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 8:54 am EDT</lastBuildDate>
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  • Brian,
    Were you able to resolve this issue? I am making the following call:
    http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=TZXX0001

    and the data is nearly a month out of date!
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  • QUOTE (embhoya @ Dec 22 2009, 10:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Brian,
    Were you able to resolve this issue? I am making the following call:
    http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=TZXX0001

    and the data is nearly a month out of date!


    Comparing the data with weather.com it shows that the data is accurate/up to date, but the date is off.
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  • QUOTE (Dustin Whittle @ Dec 22 2009, 01:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Comparing the data with weather.com it shows that the data is accurate/up to date, but the date is off.


    I don't think so. Those were also the temps for the corresponding dates in November. There is also a last updated timestamp in the xml from november. If anyone from yahoo can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I am using this on a production site and do not want to have to swap out a different api.
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