University of Reading

Meteorology Department Climate Data Services

The Department of Meteorology's data server, metdata.reading.ac.uk, which publishes observations from the University of Reading Atmospheric Observatory — one of the longest continuous climatological records in the UK. Live and public: the AWS weather report at www.met.reading.ac.uk/weatherdata/Reading_AWS_weather_report.html refreshes every 300 seconds, and a dozen CGI query services under /cgi-bin/ (climate_extract, onthisday_query, stats_climate_query, averages_sums, bhclimate_query, MMS, climate_plotter and others) each returned 200 and accepted POSTed parameters on 2026-09-01. Honest limitation: these are multi-step HTML form wizards over POST, not a documented API, and the newer "Public Data Extractor" at metdata.reading.ac.uk/ext/ still carries a banner reading "Site under construction. No data available yet" dated 03/07/2018. The /cgi-bin/ index itself returns 403 — the scripts are callable, the directory is not listable.

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https://research.reading.ac.uk/meteorology/atmospheric-observatory/atmospheric-observatory-data/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-reading:met-climate-data
name: Meteorology Department Climate Data Services
x-operator: institution
description: 'The Department of Meteorology''s data server, metdata.reading.ac.uk, which publishes observations
  from the University of Reading Atmospheric Observatory — one of the longest continuous climatological
  records in the UK. Live and public: the AWS weather report at www.met.reading.ac.uk/weatherdata/Reading_AWS_weather_report.html
  refreshes every 300 seconds, and a dozen CGI query services under /cgi-bin/ (climate_extract, onthisday_query,
  stats_climate_query, averages_sums, bhclimate_query, MMS, climate_plotter and others) each returned
  200 and accepted POSTed parameters on 2026-09-01. Honest limitation: these are multi-step HTML form
  wizards over POST, not a documented API, and the newer "Public Data Extractor" at metdata.reading.ac.uk/ext/
  still carries a banner reading "Site under construction. No data available yet" dated 03/07/2018. The
  /cgi-bin/ index itself returns 403 — the scripts are callable, the directory is not listable.'
humanURL: https://research.reading.ac.uk/meteorology/atmospheric-observatory/atmospheric-observatory-data/
baseURL: https://metdata.reading.ac.uk/
tags:
- Climate Data
- Weather
- Open Data
- Observatory
- HTML Forms
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://research.reading.ac.uk/meteorology/atmospheric-observatory/atmospheric-observatory-data/