MSN weather API list of conditions?

Question

Microsoft has a weather API very similar to Google's (which now appears to be completely dead). I've converted one of my applications over to their feed, but I've been unable to find a list of all possible weather conditions.

This is documented fairly well for Google's weather API, but I can't find a list of conditions for the MSN weather API.

FWIW, an example URL to get data back using MSN is:

http://weather.service.msn.com/data.aspx?weadegreetype=F&culture=en-US&weasearchstr=Chicago,IL (service not available anymore (Jan 2016))

Can anyone shed some light on the possible conditions? I need them so that I can convert the condition text to an icon instead.

Answer 1

It seems there's lots of misinformation going on whenever Microsoft is in question. I was testing the MSN Weather API today; and it did return; and is returning weather data, hourly.

I made the following [probably non standard] query just now: "http://weather.service.msn.com/data.aspx?weasearchstr=ny,NY&culture=en-US&weadegreetype=C&src=msn"

And it did return exactly what was requested:

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