bom-stat

This is a dead simple api to fetch a range of statistics, recent weather observations and climate data from the Australian Data Archive for Meteorology, a database which holds weather observations dating back to the mid 1800s.

It provide same functionality of Climate Data Online (CDO).

Provide station number and it will return all the historical data, rainfall, minimum, or maximum temperature.

Installation

``
npm install bom-scraper --save
`

Usage

`
const { getHistoricalData } = require('bom-stat')

const params = {
station: '086338',
type: 'monthly',
about: 'rainfall'
}

getHistoricalData(params, function (err, data) {
console.log(data)
})
`


Return


`
[
{
station: '086338', // Station Number
year: '2013',
data: {
annual: '374.4',
months: [64.4, 54.2, ...] // 12 elements, each represents a month, Jan, Feb, ...
}
},
...
]
``

Params

All the params are similar to the inputs in the Climate Data Online system).

$3

#### Type: String
#### Required: true
#### Example: '086338'
A unique 6-digits number represent a station. You could get this by lat/lon according to the Observations List from BOM).

$3

#### Type: String
#### Required: true
#### Value: 'daily' | 'monthly'
#### Default: 'monthly'
The type of data.

$3

#### Type: String
#### Required: true
#### Value: 'rainfall' | 'mintemperature' | 'maxtemperature'
The type of data.

$3

#### Type: Number
#### Value: Number | null
Only use for daily data. Set it to null for all years of data.