Blimey, some people who know me know that I tend to obsess sometimes over things. In the same vein, I’ve positively gotten obsessed with the weather, obtaining latest readings, parsing them, storing them, displaying them, the works.

So yesterday I spent a significant amount of time writing a PHP program to parse the XML feed from InterceptVector. They provide a free weather feed for tons of cities worldwide in XML. They’ve been having problems though, sometimes the server is down, sometimes the data is incorrect (as I found to my surprise this morning!). So I verify their feed first, and if there is a problem I fall back to PHP Weather’s feed, which is more reliable.

Why use InterceptVector at all then? Well, they provide feeds from a lot more locations than just Heathrow and 1 or 2 other airports. Plus, they supply a 5-day forecast, which you can see by clicking on ‘More details’ on the left.

I’m going to add all the files required to this stuff to my Software section, in case anyone else wants to use it