You can use a SAS DATA step to write the selected World Weather Online data to a SAS data set. This enables you to use SAS software to easily analyze the data. If you specify the name of the output data set in the DATA statement, the SAS engine supervisor creates a SAS data set that has the specified name in either the SAS Work library or, if specified, the SAS User library.
The contents of the SAS data set include the date of each observation and the name of each location whose weather data is read from the World Weather Online website.
The SASERAIN interface engine maintains the sort order, so the locations (q-codes) are sorted in the resulting SAS data set by the order that you specify in the QUERY= option, by date (time ID), and by variable (time series item name).
You can use the PRINT and CONTENTS procedures to print your output data set and its contents. Alternatively, you can view your SAS output observations by opening the desired output data set in a SAS Explorer window. You can also use the SQL procedure with your SASERAIN libref to create a custom view of your data.