Codes for the BBC’s worldwide weather RSS feeds
Of course, as soon as I published the list of UK codes for the BBC weather RSS feeds last week, people wanted the codes for the worldwide RSS feeds as well.
Therefore, I modified last week’s code and analysed all the worldwide RSS feeds. The result is a 73 page PDF booklet that contains an alphabetic listing of the 4,250 worldwide codes.
The codes seem to work both for the weather observations (used by my WordPress UK Weather Observations Plugin) and for the BBC’s short range forecasts RSS feeds, which are described as 5 day forecasts but the RSS feeds actually provide up to 3 days of forecasts.
To use the worldwide codes with my UK Weather Observations Plugin for WordPress, under the ‘UK Weather Observations settings’ advanced options set the BBC file directory option to:
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/obs/world/
I hope you find the codes useful. You can now use my WordPress plugin for worldwide weather observations.
I will try to get back to Internet Marketing next week, although this is Internet Marketing in a way because it attracts people to my website; there is no blatent advertising in the PDF files though!
Genius! Thanks for this update. Even though the plugin is called “UK Weather Observations” I liked the style and wanted it to show the weather where we are in Málaga. Maybe you can include the link to your PDF booklet and the address of both feeds in the next plugin update.
Just a quick question: I’m trying to edit the PHP so it credits both you and the BBC but I don’t seem to be having much success. The code I’m altering (as I have basic programming skills) is this:
$output .= “\n”;
$output .= ‘Weather provided by the ‘;
$output .= ‘BBC‘;
$output .= ‘Plugin by ‘;
$output .= ‘Clive Publishing‘;
$output .= “\n\n”;
I don’t know if this is right or wrong. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks again.
Chris.
PS. Forget the help about the coding… managed to get it sorted. I just needed to clear the cache!
Cheers.
Thank you. Glad you sorted out the coding. However, I suggest that you put a <br /> in front of Plugin so that it is formatted better. The line in your code would then read:
$output .= ‘<br />Plugin by ‘;
I’m not sure where the BBC get the weather information from for overseas locations. How accurate is it for Malaga?
Cheers,
Clive
Hiya Clive,
The weather is very accurate. Nice and warm here at the moment – double of what it is in Cornwall, ha ha
Thanks for the coding tip. Will have a look at that tomorrow as I’m off home after a hectic day at work!
Cheers.
Chris.
Just finished applying your suggestion Clive and it looks much better.
Thnaks very much and have a great weekend.
Cheers.
Chris.
Your post is awesome and I am going to add it on my website because recently I have started a small business of internet marketing. This post will help me in expanding my knowledge about Internet Marketing.
Version 2.0 of the WordPress UK Weather Observations plugin has now been released. See the announcement and plugin page for more information.
Hi thanks for the feedback but it seems BBC changed the codes as they give something totally different from what is in your pdf guide. Could you be having the updated list or am using them wrongly?
Hi Simon,
Current version of PDF file is http://www.clive-publishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/BBC_Weather_Observations_Codes_2009_07_08.pdf. What location do you need the code for? I will check it for you.
Cheers, Clive
Hi Simon,
Any chance of the list as a CSV file rather than the .pdf?
Thanks in advance
T