Back Cranking Weather Code

Shifting gears from writing an major upgrade to my high school alumni web site (not putting it aside, just a minor detour) to cranking up a major set of meteorological data into a set of MySQL tables, supporting one of my professor's research work. It is a far cry from working on billing programs for the phone company and much more rewarding. Maybe not financially, but it feels so good to do something that might actually make a difference in something other that a company's bottom line, a company could give a rat's about me or any of its employees. So, I am off to code up a quick and easy way to get the hourly temperatures for 2002 for Chatham Municipal Airport in Massachusetts along with about 7000 other weather stations for the past five years.