PAGASA 10-Day Weather Forecast

pagasa-10day

Introduction

ACAP sources its 10-day weather forecast data from PAGASA's public 10-day weather forecast data (available as Excel files from day 1 - day 10) in their 10-Day Climate Forecast web page at https://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/climate/climate-prediction/10-day-climate-forecast (opens in a new tab).

This section describes updating the initial 10-day weather forecast data with the latest values.

ℹ️

ACAP's initialization steps from the Installation and Setup section use an older set of 10-day weather forecast data for demonstration.

💡

After confirming successful initialization and deployment setup, ACAP's cron script, running in a GitHub Actions Scheduled Workflow, will regularly sync with the latest posted PAGASA 10-data weather forecast daily once between 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM.

Update Steps

Use a target environment

Open the server .env file. Update the FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACC and FIREBASE_PRIVATE_KEY keys with the development or production key values.

Run the NPM Script

Navigate to the /server directory from a terminal.
Run the command:
```
npm run cron:tenday
```

Re-run on GitHub Actions

This method is an alternate option for running the NPM script aside from step #2, available after confirming a successful setup and deployment of the GitHub Actions cron jobs.

Go to the forked repository's Actions tab.
Select the CRON Download, Parse and Upload Excel Files workflow in the left-side menu.
Select and click one of the latest successful workflow runs.
Press the button on the upper right with the label "Re-run all jobs."

Manual Data Upload

Sign in as an Admin to the ACAP website.
Go to the ACAP Settings → 10-DAY tab.
Follow the instructions for manually updating the 10-day weather forecast data. It involves:
- Download the day 1 - day 10 PAGASA 10-day weather forecast Excel files from PASAGA's 10-Day Climate Forecast (opens in a new tab) web page to the local PC or laptop.
- Upload all ten (10) of the Excel files using the ACAP Settings → 10-DAY upload form.
Press the SUBMIT button after selecting the Excel files from step #3.
Wait for the update success or fail status response to appear. A successful trigger will display an updated "Date synced" field in the Current Data Update Summary section, displaying the latest time and date of the successful update.

ACAP REST API

10-day weather forecast data is available in the REST API endpoints (plus other query parameters) if the ACAP-RCMAS REST APIs are active:

Current data: GET /api/weatherforecast?type=tenday
Historical data: GET /api/weatherforecast/archives?type=tenday

Recommendations

Since the 10-day weather forecast updater runs in an NPM script, options are available for running it in OS-native cron or task schedulers as an alternative to using GitHub Actions Scheduled Workflow.

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