Modifying the weather station search parameters
The Weather Data Downloads and Weather API retrieves historical weather data from ground based weather stations, in addition to remote data such as satellite and radar. Where possible, we bias the results towards the data provided by surface observations stations as these results produce the highest quality data, as well as most consistent. Rather than …
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How Historical Weather Data Records are Created from Local Weather Station Observations
Visual Crossing Weather Data offers historical weather data coverage for most locations in the world. To provide as accurate a historical weather data picture as possible, the product looks at multiple nearby weather stations so that the most accurate weather picture is created. This article explains the process used to create the historical weather records, how …
How do I find my nearest weather station?
Visit https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-history Enter your location and any date range Scroll down to the “Location and station map” section to find your nearest station Background Most weather data today is collected and stored by weather stations all over the globe. Weather stations are all around us; often residing at local airports or municipal locations. When you are looking for weather …
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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 …
Requesting sub-hourly weather data using the Weather API
Sub-hourly historical weather data, or historical weather data with minute-by-minute resolution can be retrieved by users of the weather API. Please see the weather data editions page for details on which weather API plans include sub-hourly data access. Requests for sub-hourly data mirror the same requests for hourly or daily uses however there are some …
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Free Weather Tools and Dashboards
One this page you will find a list of our free weather tools and dashboards. These are all accessible without cost and typically without even needing to sign up for a Visual Crossing Weather account. (Of course, we highly recommend that you do sign up as some features are only accessible when logged into our …
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. …
Replacing the Yahoo Weather API
Visual Crossing is the perfect replacement for the Yahoo Weather API offering up to 1000 free results a day and full access to forecast and historical data.
How to find historical weather for maritime, sea and ocean locations
Maritime weather data covering many of the world’s oceans and seas is available in Visual Crossing Weather Data Services for viewing, downloading and accessing via the Weather API. This article discusses the available data and the variables that are unique to maritime data. Available maritime weather data Maritime weather data in Visual Crossing Weather is …
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Replacing the Weather Underground API
This article provides a step-by-step guide to replacing the Weather Underground API with the Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API. The Timeline Weather API offers a generous free daily API limit and a simple JSON response that is easily used in any existing application or script. This makes the Timeline API, the perfect replacement for the …