July 15th, 2007 - Fountain Hills Hourly Weather Chart

Four Peaks, Nasty Weather

The following chart is based on data collected from NOAA's National Weather Service page. Specifically the data is from Scottsdale Municipal Airport (KDSL) which is the closest airport to Fountain Hills. I have a script that grabs the XML feed from their site every hour and stores the information in a MySQL table. Please note that the data is displayed in Eastern time, not local time, so depending on the time of year you will need to subtract 2 or 3 hours to get local time.

The dynamically generated chart is Adobe Flash, and is produced using PHP/SWF Charts 4.5, a tool created by Maani. Click on the chart to go to the manni.us site.

The purpose I had in mind when producing this page was to create a useful demonstration of data collection from XML feeds and conversion of that information into a chart or other useful visualization.

This tool makes the embedding of charts into web sites a fairly straigtforward task, assuming that the data is available. If you would like to have functionality like this for your site, please let me know via my contact page.