> Weather Underground used to be great but it has removed 
> it's custom range data download option as well it no longer
> provides hourly data other than one day at a time.

If you start here:
https://ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data

...and spend a little time wandering through the twisty maze of links and
drop-down menus, you can find a NOAA weather station near you from which you
can download hourly (or better, in some cases) data on just about any
tangible weather metric without all the mucking about with APIs or apps.

Columbia U put up a full-bore NOAA-grade station atop a roof where I keep
some hives a decade ago, and never came back to collect it, so I a local
high school and I have "adopted" it, maintain the equipment, and utilize the
data.  The network connection is kindly donated by the co-op of apartment
owners in the building.  

While weather data was more useful in the early 2000s, the entire scheme of
Growing Degree Days ( see http:/bee-quick.com/reprints/budding.pdf for a
primer ) is not so useful outside of a greenhouse, when you don't get a hard
freeze, and therefore don't know when to start counting GDDs.  My rose
bushes have yet to go dormant this year, despite being 31 stories up - it
just hasn't gotten cold enough long enough.  Some still have some minor
blackspot.

More of us North of the Mason-Dixon line may have to start adopting the
hyper-local "Walt Wright" package of practices, which are clearly optimized
for locations where Christmas day attire can include shorts.

Strange Days...

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