Page Title: Weather - What Is
Last Modified: 2026-08-20 12:52:31
Current Date: 2026-08-23 22:48:49 UTC

On the evening of 31st December 2022 (New Years Eve) I decided I would download forecast weather data from the Met Office, so I quickly wrote some python code to get the data and import into my MySQL database and managed to get it working before midnight, so all my data starts on 1st January 2023

May 2025 I had bought all the bits and started to make a small weather station measuring Pressure, Temperature and Humidity.

I am using 2 BME280 Pimoroni sensors that measure pressure, temperature and humidity, also 2 DS18B20 temperature sensors for back up, these are placed in a small ventilated project box and mounted to the rear outside garage north facing wall where it is always in the shade.

A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 runs all these sensors and a couple of extra internal sensors (My IT room temperature and My main servers temperature from the server front case and server rear case, plus my Raspberry Pi enclosure). These are upload data every 5 minutes to my main database.

I have a simple weather station page on Weather Underground (If you want to view the temperatures as degrees Celsius on Weather Underground then you need to click the weather underground settings icon at top of the page and select degrees Celsius else you will just see temperatures as degrees Fahrenheit)

On 1st December 2025 the UK Met Office shutdown their forecasting API at datapoint. So it has taken a few months for me to find a replacement and after trialling a few different services I finally landed on Open-Meteo Weather API which offers so much data and different data weather models. It also 'Free to use' for small non-commercial use as long as you keep below 10,000 daily API calls (as at July 2026)

The current weather for me here at home is .....