The SASERAIN Interface Engine

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This example shows how to retrieve past weather data for two locations (London and Paris) by using a date range. The historical (past) weather API is invoked because the DATE= and ENDDATE= options are specified. The concept of current conditions does not have any meaning when you specify past dates, so the historical weather data are returned instead of the current conditions. The output is shown in Output 54.6.1. When you specify past dates, the same data are returned whether or not you specify the CC= option. The SAS log shows the following warning:

*****WARNING: Using historical (past) weather API, so current conditions are 
not reported.

options validvarname=any;

title 'Historical Weather for Date Range MAY 01, 2017 - MAY 02, 2017 for
   London and Paris';
libname mylib "/sasusr/rain/doc/";

libname myRain saserain "%sysget(RAIN_DATA)"
   apikey='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
   query='London,United Kingdom;Paris,France'
   date='2017-05-01'
   enddate='2017-05-02'
   tp=24
   cc=onlycc
   format=XML
   outXml=rainex05
   automap=replace
   mapref=MyMap
   xmlmap="%SYSGET(RAIN_DATA)rainex05.map"
   ;

data mylib.cc3day;
   set myRain.rainex05;
run;

proc contents data=mylib.cc3day; run;
proc print data=mylib.cc3day; run;