public static Forecast getForecast(String cityCode) throws JSONException, IOException {

    Debug.startMethodTracing("getForecastString-" + cityCode);
    TrafficStats.setThreadStatsTag(TRAFFIC_TAG_DATA);

    String url = getRequestUrl(cityCode);

    AndroidHttpClient client
            = AndroidHttpClient.newInstance(USER_AGENT);
    HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);

    HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);

    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
            new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity()
            .getContent()));
    String line = null;
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
        sb.append(line);
    }

    br.close();
    client.close();

    String json = sb.toString();
    sb.delete(0, sb.length());

    Forecast result = new Forecast(new JSONObject(json));

    TrafficStats.clearThreadStatsTag();
    Debug.stopMethodTracing();

    return result;
}