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How to download weather forecast data as a Microsoft Excel Workbook

In this article, I’m going to show you how to download weather forecast for any worldwide location data as a standard Microsoft Excel file. Quick Steps to Get Started Now Sign up for a free Visual Crossing Weather account here: https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather/weather-data-services Enter the location(s) for your analysis and select the date or date range that interests …

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How can I download weather history data as a CSV file?

In this article, we will show you how to easily download historical weather data as a standard CSV file that can be imported into thousands of data analysis and storage applications such as business intelligence systems, visualization tools, statistical analysis packages, and databases. If you would like to download weather forecast data as a CSV, …

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Energy elements in the Timeline Weather API

The Timeline Weather API includes elements that are designed for use by the solar and wind energy industries. These weather elements include measurements of the solar radiation at the earth’s surface and wind speeds and directions. The elements on this page are available only to certain subscription levels. For more information, please see our pricing …

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Weather usage in home automation / domotics

Typical tasks for home automation systems are monitoring and controlling tasks climate control and  lighting. Both are tightly related to weather parameters. Climate control obviously to temperature, lighting by cloud cover or the astronomical values of sunrise / -set. In more advanced systems even photovoltaic systems can be connected to information about expected radiation. The …

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How to use the Timeline Weather API to retrieve historical weather data and weather forecast data in Java

The Timeline Weather API allows you to easily retrieve hourly and daily historical weather data and weather forecast data in a single RESTful API call. In this article we demonstrate how to use the API in the Java programming language. For the full source of this example, download it from our GitHub repository: https://github.com/visualcrossing/WeatherApi/tree/master/Java/com/visualcrossing/weather/samples The …

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How to load weather data in JavaScript using Fetch API, jQuery, d3 or node.js

Many applications need reliable weather forecast data or historical weather data that can be directly accessed from JavaScript code. They may be as simple as a weather forecast widget, a sophisticated historical weather data dashboard built using a JavaScript library such as jQuery, d3 or even a server side JavaScript application using node.js. All of …

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How do we create our weather forecast?

Our 15-day weather forecast is a blended forecast of many of the world’s leading weather models including ECMWF, GFS, ICON and more. We use these models along with real time observations and post-processing to create a forecast for the whole world. Numerical Weather Prediction Our forecast data uses numerical weather predication to create a forecast. …

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