You are of course right about the missing code example, I originially didn't think answers would contain code and thus didn't think about providing an example. But showing code of course always clarifies things, actually I am using something like this:
data = WeatherData["EDDM","Temperature",{{2016,1,1},{2016,1,31}}]
that is, I need data from a specific weather station and I need temperatures for a given time period in the resolution that the weather station provides. That's why I would prefer a more specific call syntax like WeatherData (or AirTemperatureData) over the WolframAlpha free form input, but I of course would appreciate a workaround anyway. I tried e.g. this:
WolframAlpha["EDDF temperature from 01/01/2016 to 01/31/2016", "TimeSeriesData"]
or this:
WolframAlpha["weatherstation EDDF temperature from 01/01/2016 to 01/31/2016", "TimeSeriesData"]
but could not get any temperatures for a weatherstation from it. Would you have a suggestion how that could be achieved?
And of course I still would be interested in any information about what the actual problem with WeatherData
is and whether I can do anything about it :-)