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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- Sri Lanka DMC weather forecast report index records (date, issue time, title, language) · Links to source DMC forecast PDFs (url_pdf) · Multi-day boat weather forecast report (one report type in sample)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Sri Lanka · 2023-03-26 to 2026-10-15
- Resolution llm-inferred
- Temporal: several issues per day at 05:30, 07:05, 12:00 and 16:00 (time_str); spatial resolution not stated
- Update frequency llm-inferred
- Multiple reports per day at observed issue times (05:30, 12:00, 16:00 in sample); no stated schedule
- Formats docs-verified
- parquet (Hugging Face dataset) · PDF (linked source reports)
- Access llm-inferred
- Public Hugging Face dataset; no auth listed in entry; licence not stated
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Build a catalogue of past Sri Lankan forecast issues for a retrospective weather-context review on a Sri Lankan project · Index DMC forecast PDFs by date and issue time to pair with observed rainfall or river data sourced elsewhere · Support NLP or text-analysis work on the wording of DMC forecast bulletins
- Audience llm-inferred
- hydrologists working in Sri Lanka · water resources engineers on Sri Lankan projects · meteorological or climate data analysts · data scientists
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Dataset holds metadata and PDF links; forecast values are not in the table columns listed in the docs · Covers Sri Lanka (lk_dmc), not the UK; entry region is listed as Global · Source links point to paginated DMC listing pages (limitstart), which may change · Depends on dmc.gov.lk page and file structure; scraping maintenance risk · Sample shows English (lang en) only
- Licence
- Unknown — check provider terms
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Verified 2026-10-15 via HF API: exists; 1262 downloads/30d, 0 likes.
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: manual-2026-10-15 (Hugging Face datasets)