# Ingest weather data from outside sources

**URL:** <https://forums.losant.com/t/ingest-weather-data-from-outside-sources/4450>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** experience, workflow\
**Created:** [April 7, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/ingest-weather-data-from-outside-sources/4450 "2022-04-07T19:09:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jose\_Cruz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/jose_cruz/32/1580_2.png) [@Jose\_Cruz](https://forums.losant.com/u/Jose_Cruz)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/ingest-weather-data-from-outside-sources/4450/1 "2022-04-07T19:09:44Z")

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Greetings. Glanced over some posts, couldn’t find the exact question - if this has been dealt with before, apologies : is there a way to _ingest_ outside weather report data (say, hourly temp, humd, dewp, bar, forecast ie. sunny, cloudy, rain etc) for a specific geographic region from, say, NOAA or similar into Losant and save as an ‘attribute’ to a sensor? Basically, we don’t have our own weather station/sensors/monitors _yet_, so we want to _cheat_ until we do… 😄 🔴

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**Author:** ![Dylan\_Schuster](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/dylan_schuster/32/2850_2.png) [@Dylan\_Schuster](https://forums.losant.com/u/Dylan_Schuster)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/ingest-weather-data-from-outside-sources/4450/2 "2022-04-07T19:33:03Z")

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What you are asking for is actually the “Welcome to Losant” walkthrough tutorial:

> **[Losant Walkthrough](https://docs.losant.com/getting-started/walkthrough/)**
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> Follow along for a basic walkthrough of gathering, storing, and visualizing data within the Losant platform.

We also have a [Weather Station application template](https://docs.losant.com/templates/weather-station/) that packages much of that up. You can start a new application from this template, hone it for your specific needs, and then [export that application and import it](https://docs.losant.com/applications/import-export/) into the application where you are actually using it.

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**Author:** ![Jose\_Cruz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/jose_cruz/32/1580_2.png) [@Jose\_Cruz](https://forums.losant.com/u/Jose_Cruz)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/ingest-weather-data-from-outside-sources/4450/3 "2022-04-08T03:41:22Z")

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Excellent, thanks! 🔴 UPDATE: We just tested it, this is pretty amazing and awesome! This is EXACTLY what we were looking for, as always - Thanks again! 🔴

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**Author:** ![Jose\_Cruz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/jose_cruz/32/1580_2.png) [@Jose\_Cruz](https://forums.losant.com/u/Jose_Cruz)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/ingest-weather-data-from-outside-sources/4450/4 "2022-04-11T15:50:43Z")

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As an added suggestion, I think it would be good to update Losant’s Walkthrough doc to explain, in order to get the provided imperial units, one must add the request to the API call:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/getstructure/original/2X/4/4ffafc515714662d941933d2103f54f5cd572ffa.png)  
Just a thought, 🔴