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The World Weather Information Service is provided by an group called the World Meteorological Organization. It aims to be a centralized source of official weather forecasting information by having over 150 official members providing data from around the world. In the UK for example, the official provider is the UK Met Office – but oddly there only seems to be data from 16 UK locations (as of July 2008).

The website is run by the Hong Kong Observatory and is available in different languages, but unfortunately as promising as this all sounds so far there does not appear to be direct access to any of the data, or even any indication of how often the data is updated. So, great in principal and useful to find out who the official weather data organization is around the world… but we’ll have to check back in the future to see if any useful data becomes available.