See the DriveBC Weather website for a list of weather station locations.
The B.C. Ministry of Transportation has a network of weather stations located mainly on highways throughout the province, but also with some remote stations away from highways. Current hourly data from most (but not all) of the stations is made publicly available through the DriveBC Weather website. However, unlike other public weather data services in Canada such as the Environment Canada weather data, no archived data is available. This page exists to compensate for the lack of this useful and seemingly obvious feature. The data published on the DriveBC Weather site is archived hourly, and is available here as soon as it has been archived. The earliest archived data is March 6th, 2008.
The data from the Ministry of Transport weather stations is potentially useful to anyone who has an interest in the mountains of B.C. Many of the weather stations are located at high elevations (up to 1780m in the Kootenays), and give data about local conditions in the mountains, a potentially useful supplement to the less specific historical weather data currently available to those planning travel in the backcountry.
It is remarkably difficult to automate the gathering of weather data in harsh mountain environments, and consequently the accuracy of the raw data archived here may be poor. Also, while the weather station data should be archived exactly as published on the Ministry of Transport website it is always possible that something could go wrong with the archiving process. Please consider this carefully when using the data.
You can bookmark pages produced by the archive (after you click "Go") to refer back to them later. Also, if you leave the start and end dates blank, the archive assumes you want the last two weeks worth of data. So if you want to routinely check one weather station, you can leave the dates blank, and bookmark the resulting page... that page will always give you the data from the last two weeks for that weather station.
Can you think of a way you would like to access this data that isn't possible at the moment? Did something go wrong? Please contact me and let me know. (I'm working on graphs already.)