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Collecting DarkSky API Snow Accumulation Information - Any Experienced Data Parsers Here?
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Hi all,

Currently sitting on about 10 years' worth of Dark Sky API forecasts for the latitudes/longitudes of most major North American ski resorts in imperial metrics. However, the snow accumulation numbers I've pulled do not pass the sanity check bar. Has anyone else tried pulling snow information from Dark Sky and had any success?

I've attached an example of snow accumulation (in inches) from Arapahoe Basin (based off 39.6425, -105.8719) from 2009 to 2018. The numbers seem to be too low before 2017—and way too high after that.

Happy to share more details if needed.

2009-10 Snow
66.968
2010-11 Snow
107.2886
2011-12 Snow
54.3653
2012-13 Snow
61.4706
2013-14 Snow
65.6414
2014-15 Snow
69.8614
2015-16 Snow
114.971
2016-17 Snow
152.048
2017-18 Snow
2343.2536
2018-19 Snow
789.896
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

What is your question exactly? If the data you pulled from DarkSky doesn't make sense, may be you should ask them?

If you think the error is in your calculations, then show your code, we are not clairvoyants here.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

@Oleski, I think he has asked his question in his post “Has anyone else tried pulling snow information from Dark Sky and had any success? “

I guess its just asking if anyone else has done it and if similar anomalies were noticed when they did , a simple enough question to answer.
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