# Problems displaying weather data from openweathermap api

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/problems-displaying-weather-data-from-openweathermap-api/59383>\
**Category:** Grafana\
**Tags:** json, api\
**Created:** [January 21, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/problems-displaying-weather-data-from-openweathermap-api/59383 "2022-01-21T03:32:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![the1cyrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@the1cyrus](https://community.grafana.com/u/the1cyrus)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/problems-displaying-weather-data-from-openweathermap-api/59383/1 "2022-01-21T03:32:10Z")

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Looking for some input on why this isnt working for me. Im using this url [https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?lat=35.223789&lon=-80.841141&units=imperial&appid=](https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?lat=35.223789&lon=-80.841141&units=imperial&appid=)[key here].

The data i get looks like this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/8/d/8d1d0707e5bf3f740f94696ac2afde003562391e.png)

Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong because the data just wont display on the time series. Maybe a different visualization is better for this?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/d/7/d7f3ed9cd1db47fdc9ed4c94728211d1e44611d5.png)

Here is what the table view looks like.  
Time on one column and Temperature on another:  
2022-01-21 06:00:00 33.8  
2022-01-21 09:00:00 31.8  
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Hopefully the pictures are big enough to see what im trying to do. Please let me know how i can display data so i can see per timestamp what the temperature is. Let me know if theres something else youd like me to show you from my end.

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**Author:** ![grant2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/grant2/32/42281_2.png) [@grant2](https://community.grafana.com/u/grant2)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 3:44am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/problems-displaying-weather-data-from-openweathermap-api/59383/2 "2022-01-21T03:44:21Z")

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Welcome to the forum. I have not used that API, but if it returns JSON format, have you tried the JSON plugin? See more here: [Darksky alternative - #3 by grant2](https://community.grafana.com/t/darksky-alternative/57037/3)