Welcome to the MET Weather API

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The MET Weather API is an interface to a selection of data produced by MET Norway. The data are freely available for use under a Creative Commons license, including commercial use. See also separate conditions for use of the service.

Products

Items marked 🌐 have global coverage, others are mainly for Norway or Scandinavia.
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Weather

Airqualityforecast 0.1
Forecast of air-quality for locations in Norway

🌐 Frost 0.9
REST API for meteorogical observation data

🌐 Locationforecast 2.0
Weather forecast for a specified place

MetAlerts 2.0
Weather alerts from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Nowcast 2.0
Immediate weather forecast for specified locations in the Nordic area

Oceanforecast 2.0
Ocean forecasts for points at sea in Northwestern Europe

Subjectiveforecast 1.0
Forecasts and analyses charts from the meteorologist

Subseasonal 1.0
Long term weather forecast for specified locations in the Nordic area

THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries

Textforecast 2.0
Textual weather forecast for Norwegian land and sea areas

🌐 Weathericons
Collection of weather icons on GitHub

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Aviation

Aviationforecast 1.6
Textual aviation weather forecasts

FMIroutes 0.1
Vertical cross sections for air ambulance flight routes - Finnish test product

IsobaricGRIB 1.0
GRIB files for air traffic

NLAroutes 1.0
Vertical cross sections for air ambulance flight routes

Offshoremaps 1.0
Lightning and wave maps for offshore helicopter pilots

Routeforecast 2.0
Vertical cross sections for flight routes offshore and over land

Sigcharts 2.0
Significant Weather Charts for aviation

Sigmets 2.0
Get sigmets and airmets for Norway

Spotwind 1.1
Spotwind forecasts for airport landing systems

🌐 Tafmetar 1.0
Receive Taf/Metar from airports

Turbulence 2.0
Turbulence prognosis charts

Volcanicashforecast 0.1
Norwegian national volcanic ash products including forecast

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Marine

Gribfiles 1.1
Serve grib files on the coast from Oslo and Western Norway

Icemap 1.0
Maps as images showing current ice conditions in the arctic regions.

Oceanforecast 2.0
Ocean forecasts for points at sea in Northwestern Europe

Oslofjord 0.1
Current maps for Oslofjorden and Drammensfjorden

Soundprofile 1.0
Vertical profiles in the ocean off the Norwegian coast

THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries

Textforecast 2.0
Textual weather forecast for Norwegian land and sea areas

Tidalwater 1.1
Tidal water information

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Observations

🌐 Frost 0.9
REST API for meteorogical observation data

THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries

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Defense

Metgc 1.0
Deliver meteorological forecast data in METGM/C format for defined areas

Metgm 1.0
Deliver meteorological forecast data in METGM/C format for defined areas

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Other

🌐 Sunrise 3.0
Calculate sun or moon events, as seen from a specific location on Earth

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Images

🌐 Geosatellite 1.4
Images from geostationary satellites

Polarsatellite 1.1
Images from satellites in polar orbit

Radar 2.0
Radar images from various locations

THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries

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MetAlerts: 2024-09-13

Added /test and /test_all endpoints

MetAlerts: 2024-05-07

MetAlerts 2.0 is now in production. Version 1.1 is deprecated and will be removed on 2 Sept 2024

MetAlerts: 2024-03-07

Several new properties added to GeoJSON output:

  • status (Actual eller Test)
  • municipality (kommunenr)
  • web
  • contact
  • description (for resources, previously broken)
  • altitude (feet above msl)
  • ceiling (feet above msl)

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