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Latest hourly observation at the nearest reporting station

weather15 fields15 of these fields open in the demo
Source
MET Norway Frost
Geography
Around the address
Reported stale after
3 hours
Access
Requires an API key granted this section
Contract version
1
In packages
prevention_context

What this does not say

Quoted verbatim from the section’s warnings field, exactly as the API returns it. They are not translated: a translation would show something other than what your response actually contains.

  • Nearest station with recent observations; may fall back to a stale reporting station. Station distance is straight-line EPSG:25833 metres, not a measurement at the address. Temperature: Celsius; precipitation: millimetres over the preceding hour; wind: m/s; humidity: percent. When the nearest station carries no anemometer, wind_speed comes from the nearest station that measured wind within the last three hours, named in wind_station_name at wind_station_straight_line_distance_m. Per-measurement quality codes and sensor metadata are retained. Quality 5/6/7 and invalid values are excluded. CC BY 4.0, MET Norway.

Fields

4 of 15 fields are value fields — the ones that decide whether a record actually says anything. The rest are context: identifiers, codes and timestamps. Fields marked “open” return values to anonymous callers; the rest require a key.

FieldTypeRoleDemo
station_idstring | nullcontextopen
station_namestring | nullcontextopen
station_latitudenumber | nullcontextopen
station_longitudenumber | nullcontextopen
station_straight_line_distance_mnumber | null (m)contextopen
observation_timestring | nullcontextopen
temperaturenumber | null (degC)valueopen
precipitationnumber | null (mm)valueopen
wind_speednumber | null (m/s)valueopen
wind_station_namestring | nullcontextopen
wind_station_straight_line_distance_mnumber | null (m)contextopen
wind_observation_timestring | nullcontextopen
humiditynumber | null (%)valueopen
measurement_metadataobject | nullcontextopen
fetched_atstring | nullcontextopen

Fetch this section

curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643?include=weather"

# paginated, one section at a time
curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643/sections/weather?limit=25"

Try it now

This is a real call against the public demo, from here. What appears below is what the API returned — not a sample.