How to load historical weather data into any database
Many business intelligence, data science, and academic research projects need high quality historical weather data to be available in a database. Weather data is typically quite large in volume, and its analysis often requires processing thousands or even millions of detailed records in order to find valuable patterns and apply them to the task at …
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How We Process the NOAA Integrated Surface Database Historical Weather Data
We use a lot of sources for our weather data. One of the richest sources of historical weather data is the Integrated Surface Database (ISD) from NOAA. The amount of data available is impressive. Hourly or sub-hourly weather records for 1000s of weather stations that are, in some cases, over 100 years old. However obtaining and manipulating …
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How to load weather data using VB.net
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is a versatile, modern programming language developed by Microsoft. It is part of the .NET framework and is designed for building robust and scalable applications for Windows, web, mobile, and cloud platforms. (Note that although Microsoft dropped the .NET portion of the name some years ago, we will continue to use …
Timeline Weather API
The Timeline Weather API is the simplest and most powerful way to retrieve weather data. You can request data over any time window including windows that span the past, present, and future. The API will take care of the combining historical observations, current 15-day forecasts, and statistical weather forecasts to create a single, consolidated dataset …
How to load weather data using Google’s Go language
Google Go, also referred to as Golang, is an open-source programming language developed by Google. Launched in 2009, Go was designed with a focus on simplicity, efficiency, and readability. It especially excels in building networked and distributed systems and is particularly known for its fast compilation speed. With a growing community and support from major …
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Using the Timeline Weather API with multiple locations in the same request
The Timeline Weather API permits a single location for each API request. In some situations, it is convenient to submit multiple locations in the same request rather than as separate API calls. This article describes how to use the Multiple Timeline Weather API endpoint to request weather data for multiple locations in the same call. …
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What is the difference between rain, sleet, snow and ice precipitation types?
The weather data returned by the Visual Crossing Weather API and Data Query Builder includes both the amount of precipitation and also the type of precipitation that occurred or is forecast to occur. In this article, we discuss the exact difference between the possible precipitation types that you may encounter. Where to find the precipitation …
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How your data is used within Visual Crossing
Your private and confidential data is a very important asset, and Visual Crossing takes great care to ensure that any confidential data entrusted to us stays completely confidential. A key tenet of our data protection regimen is that we always work with the minimum amount of confidential data possible and use it only for the …
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What is a Weather API?
A weather API is an Application Programming Interface that allows weather data to be queried from scripts and code. Good weather APIs provide both historical weather data and forecast data via an easy-to-use, well-defined programming interface. The best APIs have dozens of weather measures, near-real-time current conditions reporting, and decades of worldwide historical weather reports. …
Weather Data Documentation
The Visual Crossing Weather Data platform provides the ability to easily access weather data sets including weather forecast data, weather history data and historical weather summary data. The data is available for download through the Weather Data Query Page and the Timeline Weather API. Core weather columns These columns are common to most weather data sets unless disabled. …