Pretty cool site for weather reports:
http://forecast.io/#/f/-1.2835,36.8238
One of the dataset source used by forecast.io is available for free from NOAA.
Just click through the default options:
Looks like Kitui is going to have 5 days of precipitation.
http://1.usa.gov/YHQej0
Nairobi
http://1.usa.gov/YeCpvH
http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/readyout/8905522_metgram.gif
This could be a very cool service to provide to farmers.
- Get data from GFS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Forecast_System)
- Have a farmer register for this service via SMS.
- Provide a query interface or alert interface over SMS.